Operation Total Polaroid

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American Spectator:

Last April Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe provided the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform testimony at turns both apocalyptic and utopian — a perfect specimen, really, of the peculiar mix of preening self-congratulations and accountability-shirking martyrdom that currently characterizes our metastasizing bureaucratic class.

Which is to say, if the “test of a first-rate intelligence,” truly is, as F. Scott Fitzgerald posited, “the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function” then scientists will surely be studying Donahoe’s brain for millennia.

Here, after all, is a man who possesses the oppositional faculty to one minute dutifully report the United States Postal Service’s net losses of $41 billion over the last six fiscal years only to moments later wax nostalgic over the very same entity’s supposed “suite of robust and creative initiatives for growing revenue”(!), its “relentless approach to taking costs out of the system”(!!), and the “sacrifices” shared by “our employees, unions, management organizations, and customers”(!!!), all employed with brave perseverance even as it continues to be — cue the violins as Donahoe unfolds the bureaucrat’s Obama-era go-to security blanket — “stymied by the effects of Congressional inaction.”