Qualifications

guest posted by Armadillo Joe

George Stephanopoulos' Round Table this morning had five guests. One of those guests is a Nobel Prize winner and the only voice on the panel from the left. The other four range all the way from...

...a semi-accomplished journalist who, prior to butting heads with Bush43, was most notable for his eyebrows to...

...the pedigreed scion of a wealthy and powerful Louisiana political clan with an unremarkable career as a journalist and no other discernable accomplishments unrelated to her family connections to...

...a striving, middlebrow quasi-intellectual -- slightly more journalistically accomplished than the snotty patrician from Antebellum Dixie -- and an unrepentant apologist for the excesses of his economic superiors whose only redeeming quality appears to be that his love for the game of baseball drives a dislike for the New York Yankees but whose most meaningful public act to date is switching from a bow-tie to a straight tie (presumably to put cravattial distance between him and an unlettered little snot named Tucker) to...

...the poster-child for the abject failure of our nation's compensation system for the modern CEO class -- a woman who once steered a formerly venerable brand almost into the ground but was nevertheless rewarded with a golden parachute that would make other over-compensated fellow CEO-bloodsuckers blush with shame (before saying yes anyway) -- but was also somehow still considered a weighty enough person on economic issues to not only advise on a (failed) presidential campaign but also to successfully parlay what should have been yet another career-ending black mark on the resume into an opinion-making spot on a Sunday morning news magazine to spout self-serving GOP-HQ-issued platitudes like they're immutable axioms of the fundamental structure of the universe.

These are the people that the "reasonable" members of The Washington Village, our precious Versailles on the Hudson, deem fit to sit in judgement on the first week of an Obama presidency.

Egads, I hate this country's ruling class.