For those of a certain age, the members of the band Spinal Tap are archetypes of genial incompetence. I'm not sure if Ryan Lizza is of that age, but today he compares the Bush administration's anti-terrorism staffing to Spinal Tap's regular need for new drummers, and (I think) concludes there were fewer drummers than anti-terrorism czars.
The good news for the White House is that all of these ex-terrorism czars can't write tell-all books like Richard Clarke did, at least not before the election. There just isn't enough printer capacity to get them all out before the Fall.
And as an official tangent, let me say that Michael McKean is the great under-recognized comic genius of my lifetime. He was hilarious in Spinal Tap, he was hilarious on SNL, he was hilarious in Flashback, Dream On, Radioland Murders and Best in Show. He was even funny, while being badly upstaged by David Spade, in Coneheads. If some people would watch paint dry for entertainment, I'd be willing to watch Michael McKean sleep. He's that funny.
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