In D.C., there's always room for one more. So the news that Mary Cheney wants to go into business with her family at a new firm is unsurprising, because, well why not go face-down into the trough, you pigs? Said a coworker of Mary Cheney's: "It's going to be a firm like Kissinger Associates." (Oh yes, the firm at which Tim Geithner spent the mid-late 80s!) This is amusing, because one has many reasons-eight long years of reasons, including the discovery that Dick Cheney was still a private industry operator even while he was residing in the Naval Observatory-to suspect that the Cheneys, in their marvelous, brash way, most definitely lack the fingerspitzengefuhl of Kissinger.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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Well, OK, but isn't that setting the bar kind of low?
Historian Tony Judt administers a pretty solid take-down to Kissinger's record in one of the essays in "Reappraisals." He's actually a lot better at self-promotion than he was at foreign policy.
I think I love you!
Choire, if you want to borrow the book, just ask! Jeez.
"The company will operate from an undisclosed location in the South Pacific, rumored to be inside a long-dormant volcano. The Cheneys and their hairless cat are expected periodically to take over international telecommunications and make vague and unsubstantiated threats against the world if they do not receive immediate pay-offs. Robert Gates included a stipend in the Department of Defense's "black-ops fund" to cover these payments."
Henry Kissinger is just passive aggressive. At least Dick Cheney shoots people to their face.
Are you using the German there in honor of Herta Muller?
If you want to say hi to Kissenger, he has lunch at the Four Seasons a couple times a week, then usually walks over to The Brook on 54th. Used to see him all the time when I worked on that side of town.
Two years ago I had my birthday dinner at Cafe des Artistes. At the table next to me: Donald Rumsfeld. Best birthday dinner, or worst birthday dinner? You tell me.