Time to Go to Work

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Clarence Anderson was a captain in the US Army Air Force in the Second World War who went by the nickname “Bud.” 

Bud Anderson. 

If you follow history and military aviation, you may have heard of him. He’s been on the History Channel a number of times because of his service and had been a favorite at airshows for decades. Chuck Yeager said that he was the best fighter pilot he’d ever seen. Two tours and 116 combat missions over Germany, 16 air-to-air victories and he never got a hole in his airplane. He credited his ground crew for his success rather than his own flying and gunnery skills. Those three men, depicted in my illustration above, kept his bird reliably in the air and brought him home safely every time. He never had to abort a mission because his ground crew did their work meticulously. They did everything for him. 

In the fall of 1944, he was returning to England from a sortie and noticed that the ground below had received its first dusting of snow. Upon landing, Anderson casually remarked to his crew chief, Sgt. Leon Zimmermann, that at some point they’d have to clean off the summer olive drab camo to reveal the natural metal finish of the aluminum beneath as it made the plane less visible to see from above in the winter. The next morning, he went out to his revetment where his Mustang was parked to find his crew with bloody hands and his aircraft gleaming silver. They’d stayed up all night washing the plane down with gasoline to remove the paint. He hadn’t asked them to do that.

He passed away last spring at the age of 102, and was sharp up to the last. I knew him for almost 25 years, and it was my honor and good fortune to work with him on several projects. He had immense respect for his ground crew and loved them very much because they took good care of him. When it was time to go to work, they did what needed doing.

BREAKING: Donald Trump Projected to Win Presidency

BREAKING: GOP Wins Control of U.S. Senate

Now that we may have the White House and the Senate (possibly the House at this stage), it’s time for Republicans to do the same thing. Get to work. Biden and Harris did a good job of screwing things up, and it’s going to take a lot of effort to unscrew them. The question is, where to start?

You’ve got the Border, Inflation, the Economy, Energy, a Weakened Military, a weaponized Justice Department, a weaponized FBI, IRS, and CIA, a Cultural Revolution, and an insidious thread of DEI snaking its way through all of it from the education system to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Which is the priority?

Personally, I don’t see how any of this can be fixed until you can address the rot in the governing system. It runs very deeply. For the progressives to make so much headway in just four years with a mental invalid at the helm, they surely relied on an invisible overseer with a complicit bureaucracy. That has to be addressed before anything else Trump and the Republicans try to do, because if not, they just won’t get it done. New policy will get mired down at every turn. I don’t have a lot of answers for this yet. The system is entrenched and doesn’t want to leave, but if Barack Obama was instrumental in getting it established then Donald Trump can be instrumental in getting it gone.

Of course, Merrick Garland will be sent packing (hopefully with somebody’s size 12 Oxford wedged up his ass.) Janet Yellen, Anthony Blinken, Lloyd Austin (Darth Vader), Buttigieg, etc. etc. Those guys will all be gone on January 20th of next year. It won’t be soon enough. But if Trump has the legal authority, the top echelons of the FBI need to either be fired or reassigned to Podunk, Arkansas. The CIA? I dunno. Those guys are a little spooky (no pun intended.)

It is said that firing federal employees is next to impossible. Maybe so, but you can change their job descriptions and have for yourself the largest collection of janitors the nation has ever seen. You can also yank the security clearances of the Brennans and Clappers of the world. Those guys no longer have a need to know.

Possibly impose and enforce a new type of non-compete clause for high-ranking military officers that prohibits them from working for defense contractors for a few years when they separate. Maybe this will affect their ability to make DEI policy while still in the Service because they want to be loved by that culture when they leave the military and go into the private sector.

Hire me, Raytheon! I recommended Admiral Levine for Assistant Secretary of Health. (She was awesome!)

So, with only four years and one term, Trump won’t be able to address this fully because the problem is so bigly. He could probably spend his entire tenure on this one issue. But he will have to give it some time before he sets about fixing the other things that Biden-Harris broke. Like any good manager, he will set the tone and delegate the job to someone capable. JD Vance seems capable. Maybe he could become Ass-Kicking Czar. Somebody certainly needs to.

Because it’s Time to Go to Work.