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What is Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic?
A joke Stephen Colbert made on the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Some people say changing the cabinet around is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. That's not true; this administration isn't sinking. In fact, this administration is soaring; if anything, it's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic - video
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic - what is it?
This is a situation when someone tries to futilly reform the way things are done in a failing system.
The consolidation of domestic agency intelligence under the banner of "Homeland Security" is nothing more than Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic.