Shadow puppetry in Wake County
Submitted by James on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 1:22pm
Tata said he'll chart his own course and be “my own man,” not a puppet of the Republican school board majority. With Board Chair Ron Margiotta listening intently, Tata added: “Anybody who thinks I’m in their pocket has another think coming.”
This is not the kind of thing I'd expect to hear from the guy I just hired, which means that the whole "puppet" posturing is nothing but an orchestrated public relations charade. Yet there may a kernel of truth in the general's comments. He can't be a puppet of the Republican school board majority, because those Republicans themselves are already puppets of Art Pope. Is it possible to be a puppet-once-removed?
None of this changes the fact that if Tata wants to keep his job, he's not going to do anything that Art Pope doesn't support. Shadow puppetry indeed.
I've said it before
you don't become a general by NOT following marching orders. He will do as ordered or he will not be around long. I suspect he'll be a good soldier and follow orders.
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
John Stu