the bushite people are taking over

and there goes competence.

Knight Ridder reports that the State Department has "sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less experienced political appointees." The changes have come during a reorganization of various offices and created something of an uproar among career bureaucrats. "The process has been gravely flawed from the outset, and smacks plainly of a political vendetta against career Foreign Service and Civil Service (personnel) by political appointees," said a "group of employees" in a rare letter of complaint to superiors late last year.