[Jeff Higgins]

Happens in the real world, too. Myself and my co-workers are paid to come up with engineering solutions to problems. All well and good until we have to "sell" them to clueless managers, planners, bean counters, and the like. Those folks, with no idea what it is we do, how we do it, or what our answers mean, then proceed to "critique" those answers right into uselessness.

It never ceases to amaze me that some one would pay specialists to do something for them, anything, and then tear down or completely ignore the answers provided if they don't like them. In my job it is frustrating and wasteful. In Dubya's job it's, well, it's.... Iraq.