[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Why doesn't the RNC appoint pro Americans?

[mrsmel]

Well it’s nice to know that Chertoff has fans somewhere outside of Mexico. /s

[Plutarch]

That means that the Julie Myers could move up from ICE Director to Homeland Security. Oh, you've never heard of Julie Myers? You'd think that with illegal immigration being in the news she would make herself known. Uh...no. She wasn't qualified for the job when hired, and hasn't been heard from since.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Uh, no thanks!

“Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has been the Bush administration’s point person on its comprehensive immigration reform bill, which collapsed in the Senate on Thursday night. Chertoff talks with NPR’s Robert Siegel about where the White House will go from here.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10876256

[TomGuy]

Florida tilting more Republican and Ohio going the other way, it is states like Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico

Arkansas can probably be added to the Dem column. Huckabee (R) couldn't deliver it to a GOP successor and all major state offices are in the D column. There are doubts that Huckabee could even carry the state, if he did win the GOP nomination.

[alloysteel]

Shock and awe. Gonzales out and Chertoff in?

“Doing a heck of a job, there, Brownie!” was heard just before Michael D. Brown got thrown under the bus and Chertoff was put in his place. Expect a similar phrase, “Doing a heck of a job, there, Gonzo!” for our friend Alberto.

Followed by a loud “THWAP! Thump-thump.”

The bus will not even slow down.

[TomGuy]

Trading Chertoff for Gonzales?

Not sure that is such a good thing. Chertoff seems relatively incompetent as SecHSD.

[Ben Chad]

From bad to worse?

[Clintonfatigued]

I’m not sure that Chertoff would be confirmed. The DemocRATS would do anything to score political points at Bush’s expense, and some Sentate Republicans have qualms about Chertoff.

[pawdoggie]

Democratic strategists tell us... it is states like Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico that will be the battlegrounds in 2008. Among the reasons, say Dems: a growing Hispanic population that leans left and independent voters angry with a fat and pushy federal government." This is the funniest statement of several in the article. The "growing Hispanic population" mentioned in the article is mainly illegal (which is a tacit admission by the "Dems" that they plan on registering as many illegal voters as possible); and the idea that voters "angry with a fat and pushy federal government" may trend Democrat had me rolling on the floor.

[lewislynn]

Officials say he's got fans on Capitol Hill, is untouched by the Justice prosecutor scandal, and has more experience than Gonzales did, having served as a federal judge and assistant attorney general.

BFD, Can the Bush administration find anyone that doesn't sound like a pussy little girl?

BTW, What does Homeland Security have to do with floods?...Looking for work for their illegals?

[vetsvette]

If you wanted to find a worse AG than AG, Chertoff would be the top pick.

[org.whodat]

Why Chertoff? Officials say he's got fans on Capitol Hill, is untouched by the Justice prosecutor scandal, and has more experience than Gonzales did, having served as a federal judge and assistant attorney general.

The man is completely imcompentant for any thing other than a garbage collector, and then he couldn't drive the truck.

[dalereed]

That’s trading horrible for absolutly horrible!

[jwparkerjr]

I’m sorry, but there’s just something about Chertoff that I don’t like, or trust, or something. Maybe it’s his appearance. He reminds me of the guys who used to play the mortician in the B-Grade westerns. I hate to say anything about the way someone looks, I know that has no bearing on his abilities, but his appearance bothers me for some reason.

People who are in high profile positions need to have an appearance that inspires confidence. In my book Chertoff fails that important test.

I have seen him on numerous programs and heard him interviewed a lot of times and I always come away feeling like he’s not the man for the job.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Why don’t they just bring back Big John Reno?

Whatta bunch of putzes.

[Farmer Dean]

Sounds like a new definition of trading up that I was previously unfamiliar with...

[GiveMeGoth]

Is there anybody in the Bush administration that is AGAINST illegal
immigration?

[ExSES]

Why Chertoff? Officials say he's got fans on Capitol Hill

Yeah..., they all cheer when the department he heads is treated to his comments on the impossibility of enforcing immigration laws!

[lesser_satan]

Oh-my-God-I'm-gonna-puke-my-f#$kin'-brains-out alert!

Bring back Ashcroft and send that idiot Michael Jerkoff to a job he's qualified for...like cleaning out peepshow booths in an adult bookstore in the Bay area.