Posted on 07/13/2013 8:55:27 AM PDT by Zakeet
Cronyism: Homeland Security honcho Janet Napolitano announced she'd quit her cabinet post on Friday to take a $750,000-a-year job as president of the University of California system. Is this the best the regents can do?
Instead of appointing a world class scientist, leading medical expert, respected academic or distinguished public servant such as the truly qualified Condoleezza Rice to lead the great University of California system, the UC regents opted for a political hack of no academic merit whatsoever. Their pick, Janet Napolitano, has presided over one disaster after another at the Department of Homeland Security.
Dubbed Big Sis by Internet impresario Matt Drudge for her tone-deaf intrusions on the citizenry, Napolitano has obediently enforced even the most absurd White House policies.
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The real terror threat? Napolitano said it came from "right-wing extremists" and diverted resources in that direction while the real terrorists, such as the Boston bombers, plotted to blow up this past spring's marathon with no interference.
And just to underline what she really stood for Napolitano presided over the Transportation Security Administration, which today is one of the worst faces of Big Government, harassing terrified toddlers on their way to Disneyland and old war heroes in wheelchairs holding colostomy bags. Heckuva job, Janet.
Someone with this record at the University of California can lead that once-great institution only downhill.
Whether it's the regents seeking a friend at the White House to help them shake out more funds from well-heeled leftists or, more darkly, a pawn who will say black is white when bad news comes out it can't be good news to have a political hack like Napolitano at the greatest public university system in the country.
Pity the students. And what a wasted opportunity.
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As a UC Berkeley graduate of the WWII generation I believe this appointment is not only appalling but obnoxious. I will no longer be contributing any funds for UofCal and I support all those who will also cut short their funding. Gov. brown and his cohorts/enablers are using one of if not the largest and most prestigious world public university to take it further into a dark world that Napolitano has been living in. She is a politician not an academic enhancer.
What more could they ask for?
Direct pipeline to:
1) Unlimited graft dollars.
2) Endless illegal data mines on students.
3) Massive warehouse of ammunition.
Add to that hundreds of thousands of pre-brainwashed student’s with weak minds and strong backs.
I’d call that a pretty good pacification force.
I can’t think of a more deserving state.
Yes. That’s the UC Regents for you.
It’s called a political pay-off.
Got another one in Florida - Donna “something or other” from
klinton days of woe.
With a California topic it is “right as rain.” I.e. one would not expect a reasoned, thoughtful and upstanding choice for a position such as this. Right out of the demo, Barry Soetoro playbook.
It's what California deserves.
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