[Happy Monkey]

It's nice that people are noticing this now, and it would be even nicer to see this spur some investigation into how many other important posts have been used as patronage prizes. I mean, it's not as if Bush even tried very hard to disguize that this is what he was doing.


Sure, everyone appoints their best buddy Ambassador to Elbonia, but some posts actually need skill. This is a symptom of the idea that government can't do anything well, so it doesn't matter who's in any position. If you truly believe that all civil servants do is waste tax dollars and sit on their asses, then of course you're going to use the posts as patronage.