“These reformists. These ninnies! ‘I’d rather have an
incompetent governor than a corrupt one.’ My God, I’d rather have an entire
corrupt senate than an incompetent governor. The incompetent leader can’t do
anything right no matter how much money you give him. For a corrupt senator all
you’ve got to do is find out what he wants and then bribe him. Boom. End
result: the legislation we want happens. They’re otherwise the same. Neither the
incompetent jackass nor the corrupt jackass knows how to do his job better than
you. But if you give the incompetent jackass a hundred thousand dollars for his
re-election campaign? If you break some kneecaps so the environmental lobby
shuts up? If you kidnap his daughter? He still can’t convince anyone else on
the Green Committee to vote ‘No,’ because he’s incompetent. And then what do
you do? You’ve got to kill a little girl, because she’ll talk, and who wants to
do that? Incompetent people, that’s who.”
Sadly true. And the reason that while I was still working I said that I would rather work with an efficient a***hole than a lovely incompetent.
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