Proof I'm Inept

Judging from the e-mail that's starting to come in, it looks like I've touched a nerve with my column today suggesting that perhaps the conventional wisdom on President Bush's political appointees--that they are a motley set of cronies and hacks--is a little off the mark. I'm sure many of the people on the right who've sent me indignant messages over the years will be amused to learn that I am now viewed as a pro-administration lackey, at least in some quarters. To quote one correspondent:

The only defense to this poorly written article you wrote is that either you are naturally inept or your pro-Cheney editor made you write it in your name and you were too spineless to oppose him. Otherwise, this is a lousy piece of journalism.

Well nobody made me write it, so I guess we can rule out spineless. And that only leaves inept. Damn!