Being "kicked upstairs" is a way to promote someone who is incompetent or an obstruction to get him out of the way. Doesn't this describe Burke? His poor performance in Wisconsin got him a promotion to Saint Louis. His inept performance in Saint Louis got him promoted to the curia. For some strange reason, he was then made a cardinal. His job with the Knights of Malta was apparently given him to finally exile him to a place where he could fade into obscurity. Still, he continues to sew discord. What is so horrible is that in LaCrosse, he had already risen to his level of incompetence. His "career" is a kind of monument to the "peter principle."