{"id":12710,"date":"2015-09-28T06:21:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2015-09-28T06:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:21:30","slug":"greater-fools-and-bigger-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12710","title":{"rendered":"Greater Fools and Bigger Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greater Fools and Bigger Liars<\/a><\/h3>\n

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries
\n\u2013 Ana\u00efs Nin<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>The moment we heard that John Boehner would resign, the first thing that came to mind was: the next one will be a Greater Fool\u00a0and<\/i>\u00a0a Bigger Liar. For all of his obvious faultlines, Boehner is human. As was evident for all to see Thursday when the Pope -Boehner\u2019s as Catholic as JFK and Jesus Christ- came to see \u2018him\u2019 in \u2018his\u2019 Senate. Even smiled reading that\u00a0the Pope had asked Boehner to pray for him.<\/a><\/p>\n

But Boehner was really of course just a man who through time increasingly became a kind of barrier between a president and his party on the one hand, and Boehner\u2019s own, increasingly \u2018out there\u2019, party on the other. He moved from far right to the right middle just to keep the country going. In essence, that\u2019s little more than his job, but just doing your job can get you some nasty treatment these days in the land of the free.<\/p>\n

So now we\u2019ll get a refresher course in government shutdown, though there\u2019s no guarantee that Boehner\u2019s successor will be enough of a greater fool to cut his\/her (make that his) new-found career short by actually letting it happen. At least not before December.<\/p>\n

The government shutdown is a threat like Janet Yellen\u2019s rate hike, one which always seems to disappear right around the next corner, a process that eats away at credibility much more than participants are willing and\/or able to acknowledge. Until it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

Now that it\u2019s clear they lost on Obamacare, Republicans demand that funding for Planned Parenthood must stop, as the women\u2019s group is accused of \u2018improperly selling tissue harvested from aborted fetuses\u2019, something it vehemently denies. And there we\u2019re right back to the shadow boxing multi-millionaire tragic comedy act the US Congress has been for years now.<\/p>\n

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Greater Fools and Bigger Liars Societies in decline have no use for visionaries \u2013 Ana\u00efs Nin The moment we heard that John Boehner would resign, the first thing that came to mind was: the next one will be a Greater Fool\u00a0and\u00a0a Bigger Liar. For all of his obvious faultlines, Boehner is human. As was evident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[9332,9331,9330,2864,3318,6739,6474,6471,7738,3814,9333,5177,1796,9334,9335,862],"class_list":["post-12710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-boehner","tag-government-shutdown","tag-john-boehner","tag-lies","tag-merkel","tag-morals","tag-pope","tag-pope-francis","tag-raul-meijer","tag-refugees","tag-societies","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-us-congress","tag-visionaries","tag-vw","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12711,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710\/revisions\/12711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}