I've identified the problem...

Press Secretary Tony Snow on White House Staff (5/15/07):

The fact is if you take a look at personnel throughout the administration, we actually have... continue to recruit first grade people for this administration. –C-SPAN 5/15/07

The problems that we are seeing with the Dubya Administration, the problems of not cooperating with others, of being bossy and stubborn, of not listening to authority figures, these are all of them symptoms of hiring First Graders! Perhaps they should raise the bar a tad.