U.S may no longer be allowed to pick the head of the World Bank.

And it looks like one more piece of destruction from the Bush White House might be that the US no longer gets to pick the head of the World Bank.

Leading governments of Europe, mounting a new campaign to push Paul Wolfowitz from his job as World Bank president, signaled on Monday that they are willing to let the United States choose the bank's next chief, but only if Wolfowitz steps down soon, European officials said.

European officials previously had indicated that they wanted to end the tradition of the United States picking the World Bank leader. But now the officials are hoping to enlist U.S. help in persuading Wolfowitz to resign voluntarily, rather than be rebuked or ousted.

Obviously, they won't let that happen, right? Wolfowitz will step down rather than let that happen, right?

He would if he wasn't a Bushite. But I suspect that psychological blockheadedness and making decisions by temper tantrum may be the defining characteristic of the whole species.