Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Today’s Fast and Furious outrage

Three ATF supervisors who are up to their ears in the Mexican gunrunning scandal have just been…promoted. As Ed Morrissey points out: “Only in government would three supervisors who botched their jobs so badly that people died get promoted so that they can maybe avoid getting people killed in the future.”

3 comments:

RebeccaH said...

It's been my working experience that idiots who royally screw up get kicked upstairs... shortly before they get quietly eased out.

We'll see if it works that way in ObamaWorld.

JeffS said...

In the Army, we referred to this phenomena as "F**k up, Move up". Alas, it's equally common in the civil service.

Anonymous said...

Promoted far beyond their level of intelligence.

Or something like that. But if you're a government wonk, that's the norm. Union bureaucrat blunderers.

God Save Us.