[snugs]

Does this automatically disqualify him crumbs if this was the case I would have thought half the British cabinet would have things in their background that would disqualify them.

[Miss Marple]

Your cabinet is different than ours. While yours are made up of members of Parliament in the same party as the PM, our cabinet is made up of people NOT in Congress who are nominated by the President. They then have to go through confirmation hearings in the Senate and then are voted on by the Senate as a whole.

Pre-1980, this was simply a formality. Now, however, with the democrats being run by the radicals, they will do anything to destroy a nominee. The hearings are ugly, because the democrats get television time to make all their wild accusations. A nominee must not have anything that will give them ammunition, because they will turn even a minor thing into a full-blown controversy, with the assistance of the major media.

I am sorry for losing Kerik, as I thought he would have been an excellent person to lead Homeland Security. Maybe Guiliani will take it, although he has just started a business and cannot be expected to suddenly abandon it.