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I've long suspected that the Bush administration has an ingenious strategy for concealing its incompetence — to overwhelm us with so many blunders that no one blunder can stand out. After a while, they all blend together into a wispy gray haze. Poof. Gone.

Nonsense pronouncements from members of this administration have become part of our day-to-day routine. Hardly noticeable anymore. The plan is working so well that, any day now, I expect them to mount a huge sign over the White House — Dolts R Us.

But it's all part of Rove's fiendishly clever Magnum Opus — project an aura of competency resembling Inspector Clouseau's, and suddenly all your screwups become yawners, just another day at the office, while the few things you do get right seem like major triumphs.

Admittedly, the end of that last sentence is still theory.

Yesterday, AlterNet began to list all of this administration's boners, but apparently the task was just too great:

I could go on for another 1,000 words listing the stunning incompetence of the Bush administration and its GOP sycophants in Congress. But what's the use? No seems to give a fig. The sun continues to shine in this fool's paradise.

Exactly. Take a bow, Mr. Rove.

The administration's decision to turn over the management of six major US ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates gives us yet another glimpse of Rove's evil genius.

Sit back, close your eyes, and try to imagine the reaction had the Clinton administration proposed such a thing. Or any competent administration, for that matter. But in the Bizarro World that is George Bush's America, the astonishing stupidity of turning over port operations to a country that is arguably soft on terrorism — well, it soon gets lost in the incompetency haze.

And if you think "astonishing stupidity" is an overstatement, read this.