Bush Administration and The Peter Principle

Peter Principle

The theory that employees within an organization will advance to their highest level of competence and then be promoted to and remain at a level at which they are incompetent.

Hmmmm...ok. You know, in the context of the Bush administration, there are two unique ways to look for it. First, you could take the position that the Peter Principle holds true in the face of the Bush Administration. Perhaps Bush could have been a good Vice President. Perhaps Cheney could have been just as good a Senator as he was a Representative. Perhaps Rumsfeld could have made a good Undersecretary of Defense.

If you took this option, you are much too generous...Perhaps you should read on a little.

The other position is to just that the Peter Principle does not hold in the face of the Bush Administration. According to the Peter Principle, Bush should not have elevated above the failed businessman that he is. Cheney and Rumsfeld wouldn't have done much better. That is to say, incompetence should never be so well rewarded as it has for this group of killers.

So...If the Peter Principle applied to the Bush Administration on Environmental Policy, then they would have never made it past garbage man.

If it applied on foreign policy, they'd be struggling with interstate commerce.

If it applied to employment, then they'd be living in a van down by the river.

However, if the Peter Principle applied to corporate croneyism, then well, you see the result.