I'll not beat about the Bush. What this country needs is another think tank. The ASSO Institute. I will humbly be the director.

Not that the ones we have aren't good at hair brained schemes and creating fortune factories for Defense Contractors. Yes the think tanks we have are already great at proposing 2nd century empire solutions for the 21st century but I believe with all my heart, all we need is just one more.

Why?! For one thing I could use a real job, but the main reason would be to show the rest of us exactly how full of crap the other think tanks are.*

Like a casino or stockbroker they make money comin or goin, whether they win or lose. A think tank could dream up a PNAC scheme and once it royally screws up they could analyze why it doesn't work.

The beauty of the system is that there is no bottom line, No One is respondsible and NO ONE will be held accountable. Same goes for the administration. OK name one person who has been held accountable - with the exception of George Slam Dunk Tenet. We all know how severely he was punished. In fact I heard he almost cried at his million dollar retirement party.

In the ASSO Institute the letters won't stand for anything. Only the sound of it counts.

Just because every other think tank is Republican the ASSO Institute will not be Democrat. In fact we will take a page from Homeland Security and the new director of all Intelligence agencies and declare ourselves the centralized command of all other think tanks...whether we do anything or not.