If you fail miserably at one high level job, you can be booted up to a

[hector459]

higher level job. This seems to be the "qualifications" "excellence" and "merit" that is expoused by the majority party and their supporters in this country in charge of this country. And yet they give "affirmative action" a bad name.

[Anakin Skywalker]

1. It is called CRONYISM

and Rethugs learned this in their beloved bizness schools. Looking Out for Your Fundie Friends 101, I believe. :)

[politicaholic]

2. I'm incompetant, where's my Medal of Freedom?

Thank goodness I didn't have to face Barbara Boxer for my last promotion review. I may have been exposed.

[Vitruvius]

3. That's how it works in big business too;

in fact, there's an acronym: FUMU = f*ck up, move up.

And the Rethugs are the party of big business -- so of course they follow big business personnel practices -- including promoting the white-bread cronies no matter how miserably they fail, right to the very top... As with Bu$h, the incompetent semi-illiterate substance-abuser-in-chief.

[Beaverhausen]

4. This is why freepers like this administration so much

They are fuck ups and they now have hope that fuck ups like themselves can be promoted!!!

[EC]

5. THE PETER PRINCIPLE Alive and well in this

White House...government always has been practioners of the principle, when they don't know what else to do with someone they promote them....

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Damn good book, still applies today, especially shrub