"It would have been better if he'd never been appointed."
But he helped fill the minority quota in this administration. Clinton did the same thing when Hazel O'Leary was put in charge of the Los Alamos nuclear secrets and Joslyn Elders was appointed Surgeon General...both disasters. It should be painfully obvious that affirmative action hires in government don't work out any better than they do in the real world.
This is ultimately why you fire Alberto...
A certain Clarence Thomas tests your theory. But consider that Gonzales' name was floated for the Supremem Court.