Confidence Men
Why the myth of Republican competence persists,
despite all the evidence to the contrary.
well, as some of you know, tconfidence men and politics is the subject of my pending dissertation. So, now that I am done with exams, I am getting back on topic.
More to come. (I've noticed that there is never any shortage of fraud and corruption stories)
"Confidence Men" by Joshua Micah Marshall: "This unfamiliarity and heightened expectation, matched with the trappings of competence, gave potency to what has turned out to be the Bush administration's signature political tactic: the confidence game. The confidence man is a stock figure in American culture, originating--perhaps not coincidentally--in the boomtowns of the Old Southwest. He's the snake-oil salesman, the wildcat land speculator who mixes boundless optimism with quick talk, bluff, and bluster. The administration is led by such men. "