The President has appointed the entirely ineffectual State Department spox Jen Psaki to the job of White House Communications Director. This is the well-known Peter Principle on steroids.
You'll remember the Peter Principle argued people are promoted until they reach a job the difficulty of which is too much for them. Since they do a poor job at that level they are stuck there and go no higher. To those of us with extensive bureaucratic experience the "principle" always made a perverse sense.
How then to explain the promotion to a more important job of a woman who did a laughably poor job in her prior role at State? Perhaps she was promoted for having demonstrated at State an ability to deliver outlandishly improbable twaddle with an earnest straight face. See a Power Line article for more.
