One of the leaders of the World Bank’s bloodless, groundless coup against Paul Wolfowitz was Dutch supranational bureaucrat Ad Melkert. At the time, the WSJ vowed to turn a “firehose” on the World Bank’s unethical connivers. Well, Mr. Melkert’s ro…

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Negotiations to get rid of him under a face-saving compromise appear to have broken down, according to the Blotter (who actually use a decent picture of him for a change, instead of the usual one you see with his mouth……

I propose that we refer to Shaha Riza as Mr. Wolfowitz’s “consort.” The term is accurate, and has two merits:

1) It eliminates the foolishness of calling a grown woman a “girlfriend.”
2) It has connotations of old European nobility which fit both her and Wolfowitz’s social standing, and will incidentally drive the Euros nuts.

Respectfully submitted by MFC (Minion First Class),

The idea that the President of the organization – the top man in the outfit – cannot recuse himself because some dumbass committee says so, is ridiculous.

How would he be looking in the media right now if he’d tried to recuse himself, the committee said no, and he said, “screw you, I recuse myself anyway, and you can’t make me not recuse myself”? Golden and untouchable, that’s how he’d look.

RedWinged Blackbird on May 4, 2007 at 7:00 PM

From your lips…

Bad Candy on May 4, 2007 at 6:51 PM

It must have been a tough call for them. I can just imagine them weighing out the pros and cons:

“On the one hand, he gay. On the other hand, he’s a joooooo! I just don’t know whether to support him or not. Oh, wait! He was sleeping with a liberal. Why didn’t they tell us to begin with. NOT GUILTY!!!”

see-dubya on May 4, 2007 at 6:51 PM

Well, if a future PRIEST can’t teach an ethics class, who can?

I was impressed, because, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen the net-left decry racism against Israelis.

JadeNYU on May 4, 2007 at 6:47 PM

Hey, they’re Anti-Zionists, not Anti-Semites!

Heh.

If you can’t trust your ethics committee, who can you trust?

JadeNYU on May 4, 2007 at 6:44 PM

They haven’t made an Ethics Committee Ethics Committee yet, have they?

Just kidding, there’s no such thing as ethics in DC or international organizations.

It’d be another round of conservatives are bigots stories throughout all leftist media.

Bad Candy on May 4, 2007 at 6:42 PM

If I recall correctly, some on the left did cry racism when we objected to Governor McGreevey assigning his Israeli boytoy to head Homeland Security in New Jersey.

It didn’t matter that the complaint was that he was an unqualified non-citizen. Instead, they said we don’t trust ‘brown’ people to keep the country safe.

I was impressed, because, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen the net-left decry racism against Israelis.

Much has been made of the fact that the raise Mr. Wolfowitz accorded Ms. Riza–after his attempt to recuse himself was rejected by the Ethics Committee, and after he was required to resolve the matter himself, thereby forcing the very conflict-of-interest he had sought to avoid

The bolded parts are what bugs me about this entire thing.

He went to the ethics committee and said “This is my girlfriend” and tried to recuse himself. The Ethics committee told him to handle it himself (and, by some accounts I’ve read, recommended the raise). He follows through (as they told him to) and is now in hot water.

If you can’t trust your ethics committee, who can you trust?

As for his girlfriend, I like that name, Shaha Riza…SHAHA RIZA *SHAHA RIZA* Say it real fast in a Beavis voice! Weeeeee!!

Anyway, nice double standard by Huffpo. Can you imagine the squealing if a prominent liberal politico or figure had a MidEast girlfriend/wife/whatevah and *We* had asked the same question? It’d be another round of conservatives are bigots stories throughout all leftist media.