There's no way it'll be Blair. That would be at least a minimally classy move, and expecting such from this crew always leaves one feeling like an idiot for expecting it.

I don't know...Skeletor has interesting ideas about institutional support for microlending and a pretty solid white paper on ensuring access to potable drinking water. I mean, how long can we leave these issues up to the whim of the same entrenched isterests in Castle Grayskull?

Anyway, I think the problem is that there's nobody in the Bush orbit whose foreign policy experience is centered on development or economic diplomacy and doesn't revolve around blowin' things up for freedom. So, you appoint the lackeys you have, not the lackeys you wish you had.

Actually, Justin, I think these guys are pretty good at getting the lackeys they want to do the things that they want. Though I do like your line...

Also, the upside of a Blair WB presidency would be the day Bush announces he's going to attack Iran, and Blair announces he'll follow Bush in, then remembers that he's running the WB, *not* Britain. That should be entertaining.

I reading several places that Robert Zoellick, former US Trade Representative, is the leading contender for Wolfie's World Bank position.

He has several previous connections that may help: Ex. VP at Fannie Mae (with its own scandals); Senior International Advisor to Goldman Sachs; Served with Janes Baker at State Dept as Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs; lead State Dept official in NAFTA negotiations; Dep. Chief of Staff to Bush I; lead US negotiator to bring China and Taiwan into WTO.

His connection to Bush I and James Baker might be a Bush II hangup. Too much a part of daddy's cabal?

I guess I should add that he's not be indicted, nor caught in a public lie, so that might be disqualifying also.

As usual, K-Lo has the answer.

I fully expected that K-Lo link to lead to a Rick Santorum recommendation.

I think it should be Bono.

Ahhh K-lo, still dumb as a post I see. What, was Darth Vader unavailable for the position?

Too bad Abramoff is unavailable.

Although he seems to have much better personal hygiene than Paul Wolfowitz, isn't Tony Blair's candidacy vulnerable to many of the same objections? One of the strongest objections to Wolfowitz was that no one really trusted him to implement his anti-corruption campaign honestly; it was assumed that he would use it to punish countries that he disliked, while pouring money into any corrupt hellhole that he thought would advance neoconservative foreign policy objectives. If you were to scour the planet for the one man even more narcissistically self-righteous than Paul Wolfowitz, and also a more persistent and shameless liar, the name you would come up with would be Tony Blair.

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