The Peter Principle Lives

The Peter Principle thrives in the Bush Administration. For those too young to remember, it's this: the process of climbing up the hierarchical corporate ladder indefinitely until the employee reaches a position where he or she is no longer competent.

George Bush is the most highly visible example of this principle in action (couldn't he have just been happy as the relatively harmless Governor in Texas?). And though Republicans advised the President against a recess appointment of him, and he has long since passed that point of minimal competence, John Bolton is the latest example of the truth of the Peter Principle.

He perjured himself to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he lied to congress in previous testimony, misused intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, and has had various other run-ins with our dedicated diplomatic corps, and is a possible defendent in the CIA-Leak scandal.

Bingo! All the qualities our President values and rewards. George Bush decided he was the best man to reform the U.N. (If by "reform" you mean: degrade the last remaining good will countries of the world had for us, insult the few diplomats left at the U.N. that we haven't insulted, and further distance ourselves in a world that is increasingly dangerous and where the more countries on our side, the less on the other side! Yes, that kind of reform.)


To sum this farce up, just look closely at the expressions on each of the three parties in this picture of Bolton's recess appointment. It'll tell you all you need to know about our future representative at the United Nations, and should give ample warning to the world what George Bush has foisted on its citizens.

God help us.