Ah, Wolfowitz....

Paul Wolfowitz, chairman of the World Bank and former Bush administration honcho, is in trouble.

So he was screwing some underling at the World Bank and got her a hefty promotion and pay raise. That's nothing new under the sun. Although if it had been a Democrat appointee, he would have been drawn and quartered by now.

What was much more interesting to me was the following quote from the end of the article:

"He (Wolfowitz) acknowledged the need to reorganize his personal office, where aides have been criticized for a lack of expertise in development economics and for ties to the Republican Party."

Gee, nepotism among the Republican brother/sisterhood is alive and well, not only in our government but also at the World Bank! We've already seen the disastrous consequences of appointing people of questionable competence and experience (who dedicate themselves to ferociously defending the president and the Republican party line) to high-level government posts, just because they're right-wing Christian conservative freaks. See, e.g., Monica Goodling.

I never liked Paul Wolfowitz anyway. He seemed just a bit too eager to get into Iraq. I never believed that stuff about uranium from Africa, or whatever, and I never thought that Saddam had WMDs. Anyone with an ounce of sense could figure out that it was a devastated country, run by a madman, that could never have organized itself enough to put together strong enough weapons to do any real damage. But, hey, if the President and his lackeys, I mean advisors, say it's true, it must be.

So I hope this gets Wolfowitz fired, so he can go and crawl under the same rock that Donald Rumsfeld is hiding under these days. Now, if only we could find some serious skeletons in Karl Rove's closet!