Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Survival of the Least Fit in Washington

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The GOP is blocking the appointment of highly qualified people to key positions in government. We already discussed the administrations problems getting Elizabeth Warren into the Consumer Protection Agency. She is one of several other candidates with excellent qualifications who are being blocked. Krugman compares this with the way in which the Bush administration staffed the Provisional Authority that was put in charge of running Iraq. The primary qualification for an appointment was loyalty to the GOP and its value system. Many key positions were staffed with inexperienced people who messed things up badly. This was also true in the Justice Department. Important jobs were given to interns with degrees from Liberty University whose qualifications were based on loyalty to the Bush agenda instead of legal expertise. We all remember the Katrina fiasco as well and Bush's comment during the fiasco "Good job Brownie" in reference to the head of FEMA who had no previous experience in disaster relief but who was a good friend of one of Bush's old buddies. This is the way that many third world countries are run. That is the direction that we are headed as long as we keep electing people to government whose primary concern is that it not be run well.

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