Good idea, just not from you.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at windmills - Brief article

The result of these and many similar stories is to demoralize the best career public servants who have tried to do the right thing only to be overruled by jerks.

An unfortunate consequence is that one of the few good innovations proposed by the Bush administration, an effort to make pay raises for civil servants reflect merit more than just hanging on, is opposed by most civil servants and their unions. The bureaucrats' traditional resistance to evaluation has been heightened by their...