Big D, Double L, AS
Right here in Dallas, the heart of Texas, there’s some goings-on among Republicans.
Last summer, The National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas’ most prominent conservative think tank, “erupted in personnel and management squabbles.”
Here’s the deal.
President and CEO John Goodman, who has led the center since its creation in 1983, was fired in a unanimous vote of the board of directors, according to a statement issued by the center.
At the time this happened, Goodman announced …..
“It is a coup,” Goodman said. “There’s a huge disagreement about the management of the organization, with board members threatening to sue other board members, and threatening to sue me.
“This is terrible,” he added. “Dallas needs a think tank. But Dallas is proving that it’s not ready for it.”
Well, it wasn’t quite that simple. A couple of weeks later, it was announced that Mr. Goodman had been boinking one of the employees and was also fired for breach of fiduciary duty. He was being paid half a million dollars a year and still couldn’t afford to have his zipper welded shut. Her name is Sherri Collins and she’s probably not who you want representing the Temple of Free Markets.
In early June, Collins, then 47, was arrested at a house in Frisco for assault and criminal mischief. According to Frisco police, Collins had assaulted a “boyfriend” (not Goodman) by trying to hit him with a fake plant and throwing things across the living room at him. It wasn’t Collins’ first brush with the law. Texas Department of Public Safety records show she had been arrested four times in North Texas between 1997 and 2009, on charges ranging from assault and theft to criminal mischief.
So who could see trouble coming with this woman? Well, certainly not the top thinker of the Libertarian movement.
The Lovely Couple
So, if your organization is trying to recover from a nasty little squalid office love affair and some fiduciary irresponsibility, what do you do? You bring in intellectual gravitas.
Or not.
Tea party favorite Allen B. West was named Friday to be the new CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas think tank that has focused on market-based solutions for health care and tax and fiscal policy.
Oh hell, yes.
Allen West. Head of a think tank. Will the ironies ever cease?
By the way, Dallas has a Democratic mayor and a Democratic County Judge. Allen West ain’t getting no damn key to the city!
Thanks to Jean and David for the heads up.
Y’all are having too good a time down in Tejas.
1Allen, Allen, Allen, show some self respect, man. The GOP is passing you around like a cheaper version of Sherri Collins.
2How hard can it be to run a right-wing “think”-tank?
The solution to (insert name) policy is to empower market solutions and incentivize the job creators. IOW, gut regulation and cut taxes. It’s their same freakin’ answer to everything!
500 large to spew right-wing BS? Wingnut welfare at its finest.
3Any time I see some little entity whose executive is making ridiculous cash like $500K to do nothing much, my mind immediately assumes that the little entity is a dirty-money laundering operation and the executive is just as much a crook as whoever it is with the dirty money.
4Allen has been at loose ends, and no one seems to respect him. But I don’t think anyone can accuse him of “thinking.” Maybe they will have to call it something else. Like the Kneejerk WRNJ “Policy” Wonks. Or just the “Wrongs.” Sorry, Dallas. You were doing so well on the Ebola front, too…
5One can only hope the rope is just long enough for them to hang themselves.
6Allen West? Think tank? Ah, horse apples…
7I was glad to read she hit him with a fake plant. At least the one participant in this story with any potential for intelligence didn’t get injured.
Although, throw a live plant into the situation with John Goodman, Sherri Collins, and Allen West and I get the movie rights:
“Shake Hands With The Smartest Palm in the Room.”
8Allen B. West, if memory serves, as a light colonel, received an Article 15 in a combat zone. The GOP and Teas can have him. Arrogant or ignorant and unforgiving I may be, but given the Article 15 fine, I distrust his judgment.
9It is entirely in line with the political ‘Libertarian’ movement to support the liberty to throw fake plants at people. He’s lucky she didn’t use bullets (also a ‘Libertarian’ right).
10Oh, JJ! Boink! How I love the lyrical sound of that word, but does Momma know what it means! How it floats out with such resonance. Boink! Boink! Boink!
And think of all the derivatives: She’s boinkable (or unboinkable). How boinkly is that?! Had too much to drink at the party and afterwards went boinkers.
11Umptydump, thank you for the expression “going boinkers.” I’m sure I’ll have occasion to use it… more likely sooner than later, with all these smug Publicans wandering around loose.
Speaking of which, can’t remember who said it first, but the election of that hog-castrating Michele-Bachmann wannabe suggests that Iowa does stand for Idiots Out Wandering Around. I mean, seriously, people?
12With Allen West in charge, the NCPA will be doing much less thinking and a lot more tanking.
13Allen West???? Snort, giggle, bwaahaahaaaaa!!! In a way this is the best news I’ve heard in about 24 hours!!!
14Dallas got rid of their “ebola outbreak”……
and got Allen West.
Way too funny.
15Sunday is horrible for the cable TV, but the cartoons are pretty good.
http://www.yikes101.blogspot.com/
16Great sarcastic quote aboot the NCPA “situation” in light of the TParty win this past Tuesday
17“In the new servant economy we can anticipate that our betters will not be in danger of such unfortunate turns of events. Surely we will see a return to legal droit du seigneur. CEOs are under a lot of pressure being the job creators they are. They need to blow off steam. It’s not right that a comely vixen can entrap an important man like this and send him into ruin.”
Hooooooooooooooooo-Ray!!!!!!!
18We in Florida no longer must endure the dung-ball. He will now drag the marginal intelligence of Texas down.
Have fun! He’s intellectual cannon fodder and Louie Gohmert’s equal.
Ole Scout, congratulations on exporting the political STD, Allen B. penicillin resistant variety West. Condolences on another 4 years of the flesh-eating bacteria Scott syndrome as your governor.
It’s not fair, Ole Scout, that NY gets to deport their aging Fox viewers your way. Least Cuomo could do is pick up the depends and disposal bill.
19PKM, the Mike Luckovich cartoon of the turkeys was grand. Sad, but grand.
20Loved the cartoons…sigh.
21There is chronic shame which destroys the individual. I would never be in favor of that. But there is a certain societal shame, if not felt, destroys civilization. Think in terms of body care ( heaven forbid we pee our pants in public. We do that only if something goes wrong. When the McCarthyism virus took hold, and ruined so many lives because of crazed fear, it was stopped finally, by invoking societal shame…with the workshop of $$$ as the end all, we have become shameless. It’s only going to get worse..”mean girls” whose parents can’t see past, “I’m glad my daughter is popular”, cyber bullying, psychopathic CEO’s, oxymoronic thought (a vulture capitalist is a job creator) “Duck Dynasty” anything…I have always had a dark sense of humor…now even that’s slipping away into plain just dark..Newt Gingrich, that paragon of “family values” and co-operation to get things done, gave an interview about waking up to find himself President…”Beam me up, Scotty!”
I’m praying for the rapture, so the rest of us can build a happy, healthy world!
Worship…can’t see today..
22Don’t you have to be able to think to run a think-tank? That F’in Idiot gives F’in idiots a bad name.
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