A hot seat for the World Bank's new president (Wolfowitz)

[sabra]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060328/28worldbank.htm

A hot seat for the World Bank's new president

In the 10 months that Paul Wolfowitz has been president of the World Bank, there's been a whole lot of sniping going on.

The bill of particulars drawn up against him by some career bank staffers, sometimes in passionate denunciation, goes something like this: too much reliance on a few crafty conservative Republicans he brought with him; too little use of the bank's brainy economists, senior managers, and technocrats; and too much emphasis on corruption-busting to the exclusion of development.

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Wolfowitz's heavy reliance on an inner circle of Republican advisers who have had no prior bank experience has generated controversy. These strategists include Kevin Kellems, who shadows Wolfowitz wherever he goes and tends to his image, and a policy aide named Robin Cleveland.

Both Kellems and Cleveland worked on Capitol Hill. Kellems also served as an adviser to Wolfowitz at the Defense Department and was a spokesman for Vice President Cheney.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Kevin Kellems, who shadows Wolfowitz wherever he goes ...

... and tends to his IMAGE?

Is THAT the guy who taught Wolfie how to stick his comb in his mouth in public?

[fooj]

3. Thanks for resurfacing that visual for me.......

:puke:

Yuk.

[Jane Austin]

8. Har Har!

That's exactly what I thought first, too!

[peacetalksforall]

2. He may have also combed his hair in front of them. Yes, I am one who

does NOT admire him and I will be as fiercely sarcastic as I can be out of deep disrespect.

[Tanuki]

4. "Corruption busting"?

What a joke! If he wants to bust corruption, he can start with the White House, Halliburton, Republican lobbyists and the Congressmen they routinely bribe, etc.

[arikara]

5. "Corruption busting" is newspeak

and the true meaning of the term has gone the way of many other good words and phrases... freedom, democracy, truth, clean air... and my personal favorite "family values". "Corruption busting" now translates loosely to "getting our own crooks installed so that we can give plenty of no bid contracts to Halliburton."

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

7. Yep...

...eom

[donkeyotay]

6. It seems to be GOP SOP. Also known as crony capitalism

"Wolfowitz's heavy reliance on an inner circle of Republican advisers who have had no prior bank experience has generated controversy."

They're either planning a heist or planning on sinking the the no-good liberal institution in scandal and corruption. Run.

[Roland99]

9. Fvcking morans! What the hell were they expecting?!?!?

:banghead: