President's Second Choice for Transportation Security Chief Withdraws From Consideration

Fox News ^ | 3/26/10 | Fox News

[Braak]

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's second choice for transportation security chief has withdrawn from consideration because of questions over his background as a defense contractor. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding took himself out of the running Friday night as head of the Transportation Security Administration, another setback for Obama after his first choice withdrew in January. Harding said the distractions caused by his work as a defense contractor would not be good for the administration or the Homeland Security Department. The TSA is part of that department. Harding has extensive intelligence experience that Obama hoped to tap in shoring up airport screening and other anti-terrorism transportation fronts.

[Braak]

Another one bites the dust....

[Terry Mross]

Maybe he realized what’s coming and decided he wanted to be on the winning side.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping fwiw

[matginzac]

Major General wakes up, looks in mirror, says “Do I REALLY want to work for this POS POTUS?”, goes back to bed, pulls blanket over head, has wifey call to cancel appointment...
SMART GUY...

[VOA]

Able to be a Maj. General;
unable to qualify for a guvmint job...
how embarassing.

[TankerKC]

Harding said the distractions caused by his work as a defense contractor would not be good for the administration or the Homeland Security Department.

BS...there's more to it than that.

[freekitty]

At least they are getting out. I wouldn’t want to be on Obama’s side. He is going down and there is nothing he can do.

[twister881]

Obama is bent on nominating a black. If Zero would drop the racist quota system, he would have a much larger pool of qualified candidates from which to choose.

[Liberty Valance]

Yes, that's 25 medium size extra peppers, mushrooms and cheese pizzas...

and shoot that guy from FoxNews.

[digital-olive]

[little jeremiah]

Good. He’s an affirmative action supporter, big time.

[April Lexington]

Hey! Anyone remember the roasting W took when he was 3 months into his first term and hadn't filled all of his appointments! Where is the media howl now?

[Does so]

It's too close a vote, even at present: Amnesty to gain 30 million new voters could change that.

(ObamaCare has provisions to send those with "linguistic difficulties" for training as health professionals).

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Questions arose after his nomination about a contract his company had with the government to provide interrogators in Iraq. After the government ended the contract early, in 2004, Harding Security Associates claimed more money from termination of the contract than the Defense Department's inspector general said it was entitled to get. The firm refunded $1.8 million of that money in a 2008 settlement with the Defense Intelligence Agency.]

What's the big deal? Possible over-billing or the fact that Gen. Harding supplied contract interrogators in a war denounced by the Left?

[freekitty]

Is Amnesty providing for 30 million or 24 million or 12 million? Wonder which it is and are the children going to vote?

What kind of health professionals?

[chilltherats]

Good riddance. Anybody zero thinks enough of to appoint to chief crap-scraper is nobody I want in office.

[Renderofveils]

I'd post a quote, but I think the picture will suffice.

[Repeat Offender]

Yeah, he’s hoping for command of the new Ready Reserve under ZeroCare.

[Carley]

He probably realized he’d have to start actually paying his taxes.

[shelterguy]

That picture PERFECTLY represents what our healthcare system will be like in a few years.

IDIOCRACY is the most accurate “depikshun” of the future I’ve ever seen.