Whose Idea Was This?

What do a group of angry drunk little people have in common with the senior members of the Obama National Security Council? Answer: they both did things that made people ask: “Whose idea was this?!”

“Whose idea was this(?)” is a question steeped in regret and bewilderment and usually results in immediate avoidance of eye contact, pointing of fingers, even lawyering up. “Whose idea was this(?)” implies that an action, decision, or an utterance, was believed at one time to have held such promise and in the aftermath is seen as a debacle. Everything was great until it wasn’t and suddenly everyone wants answers and no one wants responsibility.

“Whose idea was this(?)” usually precedes some form of accountability. Someone handed off their beer and now faces the consequences of their decision making.

“Whose idea was this(?)” can be a hoot. Like the time that eleven little people got drunk and naked, causing a scene that Disney would care to forget.

Disney’s classic rendition of Pinocchio hit the big screen in 1940. It was an instant classic before it hit the theaters. Then someone had a great idea for a promotional event at the big premiere. Somewhere, someone, somehow sold the Disney team on an idea that turned into a total goat rodeo and resulted in the obvious question: “Whose idea was this(?)”.

Disney executives made a boardroom decision to hire eleven “little people” and dress them up in heavy Pinocchio costumes, and put them up on the movie marquis to wave at the crowds lining up for the movie’s premier. Little people dancing and cavorting in front of a gawking crowd. What could wrong? Everything could go wrong.

The little people dressed in their Pinocchio finery got hot as the day wore on. Then they got hungry. Then got mad. Someone sent up food, and for reasons no one could explain they also sent up alcohol. Whereupon eleven little people, already hot and bothered, got soused. As the crowd looked on drunk little people began stripping off their costumes right down to their birthday suits! Then the buck-naked former Pinocchio’s started gambling, and yelling profanity at the crowds. All inhibition was gone as nearly a dozen little people sat up on a movie marquis in all their naked glory, mocking innocent moviegoers mercilessly while shooting craps. No amount of pleas would assuage the angst of the angry drunken little exhibitionists and by midafternoon the New York Police Department had to send officers over with ladders who climbed up, wrapped them in sheets and took them all into custody.

“Whose idea was this(?)” came next. Who thought it would be awesome to dress up and exploit a bunch of little people as Pinocchio, leave them on a balcony in the hot sun with and wine and sandwiches for the day, and then wonder why they got drunk, mad, naked and profane? Surely someone had to pay for that one.

Decisions made in a vacuum without consideration for the consequences are made all too often. Decision makers too often become ensconced in their own bubble unable to imagine any outcome other than the one they want.

But decisions made in a vacuum often end with someone in authority demanding to know “Whose idea was this(?)”.

The history of the world is replete with ridiculously bad decisions that once made cost someone, or some company, countless opportunities and boundless riches. But what about decisions that affect more than property, or profit margins? What about decisions that negatively impact actual lives?

And that my friends is where the comparison to angry drunk little people brings us back to the Obama National Security Council.

We are learning more right now about the infamous decision making that led to an attempt to coopt the duly elected first term of Donald Trump. By means of actual documentation we can see now that there was a true decision-making process by people who sat in their ivory tower and decided that they knew best. They and they alone knew the way forward. Surely there would be no repercussions. Or so they thought in their vacuum. Now we have the ability, and the authority, to ask “Whose idea was this(?)”

With the full force of the US Government, and a complicit left-leaning media, the Russia collusion narrative of 2016 was a lie that was the result of vacuum-made decisions.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just published documents long withheld from public view. We can now see that intelligence summaries of the day indicated that while Russia had an interest in meddling with our 2016 elections there was nonetheless NO evidence of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.

But on December 9^th, 2016, a month AFTER Trump was first elected, then-President Barack Obama called in National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, and other advisors, to confer about Russia.

AFTER that meeting documents now uncovered show that James Clapper oversaw the revision of the intelligence narrative “per the President’s request” and suddenly we got the Russia Collusion hoax. This was followed by the thirty-million-dollar Mueller investigation, massive media barrages and leaks, Congressional hearings, and more. All because someone had a really bad idea that was made in a vacuum and decided to act on it.

But this one was not funny. This was not the embarrassment of drunk naked little people cursing at children. This was an actual attempt to subvert the will of the people and undermine the office of the Presidency.

“Whose idea was this(?)”. It appears to be Barack Obama, and we want accountability now. What happened on December 9^th 2016 and its aftermath was a travesty, and we now have the receipts.

We have a right to question, and that right to question is based not just on freedom of expression, and freedom of speech, but also on a sense of justice. History dictates that people make stupid decisions about things that negatively affect others all the time. But when they do so with evil intent, steeped in their own agendas, no longer caring about the outcomes, they deserve the accountability that comes from the question: “Whose idea was this(?)”