Douglas Feith is shuffling off to one of those plush neocon retirement homes for incurable tyrants:
After Georgetown University decided against renewing his contract, a brief stay as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and his efforts to get a post at the Brookings Institution came to naught, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have found a new home at the Hudson Institute, another predominantly neo-conservative “think tank” that tends to lie in the shadow of the much more media-prominent American Enterprise Institute (AEI). According to Hudson’s latest “News & Review,” Feith, whose self-serving memoir, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism pretty much bombed with the few credible critics who reviewed it, will be the Institute’s Director for National Security Strategies.
As they say, if it ain’t the AEI, or TPMI it’s the Hudson Toot. The Fucking Stupidest Guy on the Face of the Earth will have some of his comrades in dumbitude to keep him company at least:
Hudson, of course, was the first refuge of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby after his 2005 indictment for perjury, but he apparently left after his conviction (and despite Bush’s commutation…
Feith will join other leading Likudist lights at Hudson, including Meyrav Wurmser (wife of former Cheney aide David Wurmser), who heads the Institute’s Middle East Studies department; Hillel Fradkin; Laurent Murawiec; Anne Bayefsky; Norman Podhoretz (not in residence); and Nina Shea, among others. It’s interesting to note that the two Wurmsers, as well as Feith and another Hudson Senior Fellow, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., made up half of the eight members of the task force sponsored by the Jerusalem-based Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (IASPS) that produced the 1996 “Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” paper for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that many analysts believe helped plant the seed for the Iraq invasion eight years later.
Sheesh. Better keep sharp objects away from that clique. They make the bloods and crips look like a troop of Brownies. Speaking of geopolitical gangbangers, throw up your sign for KWA (very NSFW):
See, also, Michael O’Hanlon getting spanked by the speak and spell.
November 4, 2008 at 12:56 pm
One of the more interesting possible side effects of today’s vote is an overloading of the Wingnut Welfare system. So many wingnuts and professional conservatives will be turfed out (not just from the executive branch, but lobbying shops too) and the money that used to flow into various welfare agencies (think tanks, “institutes”, radio programs, book contracts, etc.) is drying up (their funders have taken a nice shot to the net worth in the last two months). There just aren’t enough seats on the gravy train to hold all of people who will be trying to board it – and the real non-WW job market isn’t exactly the healthiest place right now.
Oh, this is going to be fun.
November 4, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Yeah, maybe spread the wealth and government-provided health insurance won’t look so dastardly six months from now…
November 4, 2008 at 2:52 pm
“Norman Podhoretz ”
And he said: “Son, this world is rough
And if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough,
And I knew I wouldn’t be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye;
I knew you’d have to get tough or die
And it’s the name that helped to make you strong.”
Like Limburger under Samurai attack..
November 4, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Dudes,
I want a do-over on my vote.
http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=6629
Where do I fill out the proper form to get it done? I think this is the game changer we’ve been waiting on.
November 4, 2008 at 3:51 pm
A new class of Methode Champenoise Socialists.
November 4, 2008 at 10:21 pm
No Red Dawn!??! NOOOOOOOO! What’s that you say, we shouldn’t be glorifying the Red Dawn story anyway? What’s wrong with celebrating true national patriot freedom fighters with no military training, armed with whatever makeshift weoponry they can devise in order to rid their country of the evil rapacious invading superpower?!
Oh. Well that’s different. THESE freedom fighters is Amerkun!
November 5, 2008 at 12:30 am
[...] people unwilling to better their situation through an honest day’s blegging. The coming collapse of the wingnut welfare system should produce some glorious [...]
November 7, 2008 at 2:39 pm
props on the pink floyd reference
November 7, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Leading lights of the Hudson Institute? Don’t forget J. Danforth Quayle, Honorary Board Member and erstwhile chair of its Competitiveness Center.
November 8, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Wurmser?
DEAN Wurmser?