Another day, another scandal

Paul Wolfowitz is a famous incompetent, a failure as a human being and an architect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Despite all this (or indeed most likely because of it), he was made president of the World Bank a couple of years ago.

As Echidine Of The Snakes pointed out at the time, this was a perfect example of how President Bush's mind works.

Logic would require this. Find the person without any experience or training in the field, make sure that she is totally opposed to the values of the institution, and then nominate her to run it anyway. Tralalah!

But, I know what you're saying. You're saying, if only he'd engineered a promotion and a massive pay hike for someone who turned out to be his girlfriend.

Well, guess what.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz must decide whether he still has the credibility to head the institution, following controversy over his handling of a promotion for his girlfriend, a top German official said on Saturday.

"For me the most important thing is that the moral authority and the financial stability of the World Bank must not be harmed," German development minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul told Reuters.

I have two thoughts in response: One is that Ms. Wieczorek-Zeul obviously doesn't know that our government and president stopped worrying about credibility years ago! In fact, the only right-wing figure with a shred of credibility left is Stephen Colbert.

And second...so it's come to this. We're being lectured on moral authority by the Germans (Don't mention the war. Either of them). Gosh that president Bush sure runs a good, Christian administration doesn't he?