Kicked upstairs

Marie Harf, one of the administration's most inept official pieholes, continues her climb up the bureaucratic career ladder, the rungs of which are wrought from the debris of her credibility:

We have followed the performance of Marie Harf as a spokesman for the Obama administration foreign policy at the State Department. Harf gives the catastrophic foreign policy of the Obama administration a lighter than air, Valley Girl kind of feel. She is a walking self-parody. As such, she presents a novel use of expressive form.

Now comes word that Harf is being promoted to Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to Secretary of State John Kerry. Like a helium filled balloon, Harf ascends. In her new position Harf will focus on negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on nuclear weapons.

Is that a little frisson of reassurance I feel running down my spine? I believe not.