Your Federal Dollars at Work

Dana Perino is the President's Press Secretary. That is a big job. She answers all the questions from the press corp and basically relays the thinking of the United States government to the rest of he world. The other day, Russian President Valdimir Putin said that the US' plans to put a missile defense shield in Europe was a lot like the situation that triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Someone asked Dana Perino what she thought of that anlalogy. She balked, stammered and evaded.

Later she admitted: "I really know nothing about the Cuban missile crisis ... It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure." Perino said she went home that night and asked her husband, "Wasn't that, like, the Bay of Pigs thing?"

Aren't Republicans usually the ones making fun of the stupidity of federal empoloyees? I don't know what is worse, being ignorant and in the West Wing, or somehow thinking that ignorance in the West Wing is something to laugh at.