George Bush: Inscrutable

Comes a time when you have to give an opponent credit, whether or not you want to. I've got to give George W some credit for a degree of inscrutability of which I never would have guessed he was capable.

Why on God's green earth would he have:
--nominated to head the world bank a man whose sole experience in banking was at the ATM machine?
--nominated to be the nation's chief law enforcer the man who counseled that only that which causes organ failure or death could legally be called torture?
--nominated to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, the one person whose only job was to keep us safe (head of Homeland Security), which is the one job she didn't do.

There is a long line of nominating people to environmental protection positions who have spent their entire careers exploiting the environment.

Regarding nominees for dozens of positions, Bush has rarely missed an opportunity to do the opposite of what one would expect a President to do in that position. Which gets back to that whole inscrutability quotient. These nominees and appointments are rarely qualified or have earned these positions, so is this a move which--and I wonder this seriously--has as its objective to keep the opposition thinking "What in the world will this President do next??" If that's his objective, now that banner on the aircraft carrier is warranted: Mission Accomplished!