[Coop]

Well, then, don't forget to include Dick Cheney in your list of cronies. He headed up a commission - just like Harriett Miers - and was eventually viewed as the best candidate - just like Harriett Miers.

You don't like the people Dubya chooses - we get it! I love most of the people Dubya has assigned (Rummy, Cheney, Condi, Peter Pace), so I trust his judgment.

You'll really have trouble selling the cronyism argument after the Impeached Rapist's reign - where they had to lessen security requirements just to get most of them clearances. Then what happened? Sandy Berger, John Deutch, Janet Reno, Bill Richardson and the classified nuclear disks. And let's not forget Bernie Schwarz (sp?) and Loral. THAT'S cronyism!

Makes your anger over inarticulate McLellan, light-on-the-resume Miers and a mean ol' hurricane look pretty trivial, doesn't it?

[Great Caesars Ghost]

ok.