Zoellick (you know, like Zelig)

So Robert Zoellick will replace Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank, and while the initial reaction is certainly more favorable than it was toward his predecessor, well... he's still a Bush appointee, and as such he still has a cozy relationship with big business:

Some groups involved in promoting global health worry about Zoellick's free-market bent and his past support for trade agreements that critics viewed as favoring large pharmaceutical companies.

"It's impossible to imagine the same Zoellick who carried water" for the large pharmaceutical companies "being the kind of advocate African ministers of health need in order to expand their investments in salaries for doctors and nurses," said Asia Russell, director of international policy for Health GAP, which stands for (Global Access Project).

It really tells you something about how much George Bush values competence when the best that can be said about one of his nominees is that AT LEAST they're only ideological.