Trained Fruit Bats
by ChrisAugust 22nd, 2005 10:16 pm
Billmon on Curt Weldon and so much more:
Curt Weldon is my congressman — for reasons known only to the voters of Delaware County, PA and God almighty (and I’m not sure He completely understands it). After following his antics over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if Curt claimed the Iranians were secretly using trained fruit bats to sneak miniature atomic bombs into his wife’s underwear. The man is a complete lunatic — so far gone that even the lunatics who run our Chamber of People’s Deputies have been finagling the system for years to keep the chairmanship of the Armed Services Committee out of his grasp. (And now they’re trying to con him into foregoing a bid for the Homeland Security Committee.)
To call Weldon a loose cannon on the deck of U.S. foreign policy would be an error, because in fact he’s almost always aimed squarely at the ship’s own bridge — no matter who the captain is. The Cheney administration apparently hasn’t found his freelance meddling in North Korean affairs any more helpful than the Clinton team did his bizarre interventions on behalf of Slobodan Milosevic. (Weldon was in North Korea again just last week, along with Ted Turner. We can only hope Turner brought along enough meds for the both of them.)
Add in Weldon’s goofball embrace of every absurd lie peddled by Iranian con man Manucher Gorbanifar, his ties to the Rev. Moon (a.k.a. God’s vice regent on earth) and his taste for whacky stunts — like pinning an American flag pin on Moammar Kadafi’s lapel — and you can see that Curt reached the level of his own incompetence when he became a volunteer firefighter in Marcus Hook, PA.
That being the case, you could almost predict what would happen once Weldon opened his mouth about his mythical chart — i.e. such comic moments as his apparently bogus claim that he gave his one and only copy of the chart to Stephen Hadley at the NSC (Hadley: “No comment”), or the hearsay evidence from an alleged “whistleblower” that would be hyped to the skies by the conservative media, but never substantiated (can you say “Bill Burkett”?) And of course, let’s not forget the relentless, repetitive sliming of Jamie Gorelick and the 9/11 Commission — which still hasn’t stopped, even though the entire story has pretty much fallen apart.
I mentioned recently that there are two Delaware County bloggers who focus almost exclusively on national issues. I’m glad to see one of them turning an eye towards home, even if it is to paint a much larger picture.
