[GSlob]

GWB is supposed to run a "tight ship" and a highly disciplined operation. One would think that before he goes public with Kerik's (or any other) name, the nominee gets a 54-points full cavity check; thus reading about the surprise appearance of questionable household employee is rather strange; as a pretext some sudden health problems would have sounded more innocuous.

[Jeff Head]

Agreed. There is porbably more to it than this.

[pumba555]

the crazy Dems probably made it clear to him that they would make his personal life hell by trying to destroy his character. he had a rough background (didn't graduate highschool, his mother was some kind of street walker)- i'm sure he didn't want to have to defend himself everyday for the next 4 years.

thats unfortune, it would've been a great example of the american dream realized.

[phxaz]

32 point.

[SteveAustin]

This might not turn out to be such a bad thing for Bush and our Country.

A)Being in charge of HS and having an "illegal" in your employ would have doomed him from the start. It isn't the "tax" issue so much as the illegal issue.

B)This guy looks like he would be great in a street fight, but HS requires a "brain" guy in my opinion. Someone who can read 80 gazillion reports, then be able to work them around in his head, come to some conclusions and act on them.

If I were Bush, I would hire the smartest, most with-it CEO I could find. Make an emotional appeal to the guys ego to get him to take the job.

[Mears]

Yeah,that surprised me too. All the supposed intelligence that we have and they didn't know this?

No too comforting.

[M Kehoe]

GWB is supposed to run a "tight ship" and a highly disciplined operation. One would think that before he goes public with Kerik's (or any other) name, the nominee gets a 54-points full cavity check; thus reading about the surprise appearance of questionable household employee is rather strange; as a pretext some sudden health problems would have sounded more innocuous.

True, but sometimes the best background check, coupled with political realities, can miss something. Media anal examines, especially if your a Republican, can be brutal. We are held accountable to a higher ethical standard than the democRATS. (As it should be)

5.56mm

[dk/coro]

IMO, it probably will be discerned eventually that the nanny-gate aspect of the commissioner's potential problems is very small potatoes, indeed.

More than likely, the gent has one hell of alot of baggage in his closet. I like his style, but I suspect he is pretty well scarred, and without any hard-honed political skills, he would be eaten alive in no time by the Washington mafia.