You’ve got Peter Feaver, too!

At least, that’s what Team Chimpy thinks, thanks to the work
of one Dr. Peter Feaver, author of the Bush administration’s "Plan For
Victory" which primarily involves a lot more talking about
victory.

Yeah.  That’ll work.

Now that an actual Dr. Feaver is working for the White House, is it just me, or is Team Chimpy gradually turning into WKRP right before our eyes?

We already had Bush playing Mr. Carlson, the ineffectual middle-aged
station manager, the one whose plans never quite turn out.  Karl Rove
is a spot-on Herb Tarlek, the asshole sales guy with no morals
whatsoever.  You could even argue that Donald Rumsfeld is turning into
a decent impression of Les Nessman.

If Dick Cheney starts wearing a pimp outfit and calling himself "Flytrap," we’ve got ourselves a government.

UPDATE: Several emailers have suggested Condi Rice as Jennifer, the Loni Anderson character.  The same thought crossed my own mind, but she strikes me more as a Bailey Quarters, the sort of bookish loyalist who almost gets it on with the boss in a Very Special episode, until they think both better of it and vow to become better friends.

But then it dawned on me: who else in the White House would go shopping for thousand-dollar designer shoes while New Orleans was being destroyed?  That’s a devotion to fashion that even Jennifer Marlowe couldn’t touch.

UPDATE part deux: It has also been pointed out that Iraq is starting to look a lot like episode in which the station did a massive giveaway of turkeys — by hurling them out of aircraft, causing a Hindenburg-like disaster below.

I agree.  Except on WKRP, the tragedy had an end.  The station manager was able to understand that the carnage meant he had made a mistake.  Not gonna happen here.  So Arthur freakin’ Carlson would be a vastly better president than the one we’ve got.  Also, there wasn’t a rival station where people like Hillary Clinton were standing under the plummeting birds, insisting that yes it was a good idea.