Golf at a Time of Crisis

Lee Hae Chan the prime minister of South Korea resigned yesterday. How does this relate to our Confederacy of Dunces? Well, he was called out for playing golf on a national holiday... on the first day of a national transit strike. This caused outrage among South Koreans who felt their leaders should be engaged at moments of national crisis.

Sound familiar? One of the first posts on this blog (Bush must resign! Sept 5, 2005) called out the Dunce in Chief for playing golf in Arizona during that fateful week. To be fair, Lee Hae Chan had gotten into trouble for playing golf. He was playing golf when a wildfire burnt a 1,300 year old temple, and again when heavy rains struck southern South Korea. So maybe Bush should get a few more chances... Wait! Wasn't he playing golf in August of 2001 when he was supposed to be reading the PDB entitled "Bin Laden to hit inside the United States". And what was he doing when his team signed off on the Dubai port deal without telling him. And what was he doing in th 6 months between gas topping $3/gallon and having the revelation that America is addicted to oil. And he was certainly at least clearing brush when Cindy Sheehan camped in his driveway waiting to see him on a matter of national importance for a month.

When are our leaders going to be held accountable? Russ Feingold at least tried over the wire tapping debacle, but literally no one would go along. Our system of government is on the verge of collapse when the Executive Branch can rise to this level of incompetence and the Legislative Branch turns a blind alley. More importantly, it is a national crisis when the American people can stand blithely by while fellow citizens drown or are blown to smithereens in a war the President lied us into.