Bush's Bizarro World: Screw Up And You Get Promoted; Speak The Truth And You Get Demoted Or Shunted Aside

Bush does it again. Whether you're a major player or small fry, Bush rewards incompetence and attacks anyone who tries to stick to reality. Gen Shinseki said we'd need hundreds of thousands of troops to secure Iraq (he was right, obviously) and got pushed aside. Last week, one gov't official refused to hide the facts about racial profiling among cops and was demoted. Now, Bush has finally been able to demote the brave woman (a top Army contract official) who denounced long-term no-bid contracts to Halliburton. Bush has no shame.