ENOUGH ALREADY! – AT 6:15 P.M. ET:  I have just been named president of the PBWP, a national organization whose letters stand for People Bored With Powell.  It's true that I'm the only member, but others may join.

I'm sure Colin Powell was a fine soldier.  But, as a political figure, he's endlessly boring.  And his disloyalty to those who gave him high office is revolting.  He apparently considers himself lofty and above us all, something of an elder statesman.  In fact, he was never much of a statesman at all.

Now Powell is back, still claiming to be a Republican, but doing all he can to advance the other party and ridicule his own.  From the Washington Post:

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said former Vice President Dick Cheney's claims that President Obama's policies are putting the nation at risk have no basis, especially since most of the programs and procedures the Bush administration enacted have been continued or heightened under the Obama tenure.

Programs like going around the world apologizing for the United States?  Programs like trying the mastermind of 9-11 in a residential neighborhood of New York?  Procedures like putting a deadline on our action in Afghanistan, giving the enemy a useful timeline?  Procedures like giving Iran one deadline after another, then ignoring them? 

I don't recall those being Bush programs and procedures.

Asked about progress in Iraq, Powell, who championed the invasion as secretary of state, said history will be the ultimate judge of events there.

If the man had such contempt for the administration he served, why didn't he resign on principle?  And he should have offered a vigorous defense of our Iraq action, which, at minimum, removed a regionally dangerous regime.

He cautioned fellow conservatives who call President Obama a socialist, saying rough-and-tumble politics is nothing new, but to constantly criticize without attempting to offer new ideas is not productive.

"Fellow conservatives"?  Is that what the writer actually wrote?  I don't recall the last time Powell uttered a conservative word. 

"Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man, can suddenly change our entire system?" Powell asked. "That's kind of absurd."

No, but one man with the help of Congress can wreck a good part of the building. 

Secretary Powell, you are not being helpful.

February 21, 2010