Not a familiar reference. On the other hand, I will stick to my insight of some months back: Bush is Otto, from A Fish Called Wanda. Seldom outside of fiction is so much cluelessness combined with such burning certainty. (And a total inability to apologize, or admit error.)
"We will call him Crazy Eddie, if you like. He is a . . . he is like me, sometimes, and he is a Brown, an idiot savant tinker, sometimes. Always he does the wrong things for excellent reasons. He does the same things over and over and over, and they always bring disaster, and he never learns." - The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
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Date: 2004-10-18 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-18 07:32 pm (UTC)That hadn't occurred to me, but now that you mention it...
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Date: 2004-10-18 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-18 09:24 pm (UTC)I was afraid of that. Mote in God's Eye" Crazy Eddie is the motie who gets irrational ideas, which sound good; but can't work.
The ideas are meant to save civilization, and destroy it instead.
TK