"Oglethorpe!"
Everyone is familiar with the 80’s expression “Shit Happens,” but not everyone remembers that the first part of the sentence was “Where James Baker goes…”
When I read Josh Marshall’s TPM today, I shuddered. If Baker is going to Europe to renegotiate Iraq’s debts, it is simply a matter of counting the broken kneecaps before it happens. My rant last evening about taxpayer-funded reconstruction contracts suddenly seemed totally irrelevant; those are simply a bargaining chip to be conceded as a face-saving gesture later. It’s a typical Baker “take no prisoners” move, note what TPM’s anonymous source had to say:
Of the many skills of Jim Baker, one is to assess a problem realistically and solve it ruthlessly and effectively. This is the same person who contrived to devalue the dollar at the Plaza Hotel in 1985, and thereby cunningly put the banana peel under the world’s second leading economy, letting Japan slip into boom and bust from which it is only now emerging.
This man thinks nothing of crippling an entire thriving economy if it suits his ends! When Baker showed up in Florida for the recount in 2000, it was all over. Democracy and economies are minor impediments on the way to his goals. He watched the 9/11 attacks in the Ritz-Carlton with bin Laden’s family. Read the rest of his resume with Baker & Botts and The Carlyle Group here – with clients like Enron, Global Crossing, Arthur Andersen, and the Saudi Royal Family, you can be sure that he’s got your best interests in heart at all times. Ha! Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremer, and Perle come across a petty and effeminate mafia capos in his aura, this dude is The Godfather and Dubya is nothing more than his patsy. Where he goes, money disappears mysteriously. Oh sure, the coalition of the unwilling will be given the token right to bid on reconstruction projects if they forgive debts, but they’ll still come out losing. So will we – the dollar will collapse amid noises that it “helps US exporters” (never mentioning that hardly anything is made over here anymore), meaning most everything will cost more, but it won’t be inflation because wages and interest rates will stay stable.
But there is a silver lining – this odd Illuminati-esque coalition of Jewish hawks, Islamic terrorist financiers, Texas oil tycoons, and former Politburo dons will demonstrate to the entire world that people of diverse backgrounds can join together in a brotherly common cause – and just in time for Christmas! I bet the Chinese will feel kinda left out of this bizarre nuovo-hippie love fest, just as the Japanese did the last time Baker left his thumbprint on a burgeoning Asian economy.
5:07:53 PM 
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