NO MORE CRONYISM: BUSH DHS NOMINEE DOESN'T DESERVE THE JOB

Michelle Malkin ^ | 9/20/04 | Michelle Malkin

[sinkspur]

I think FR needs to have a poll as to who is the kookiest, Maulkin or Farah.

I don't care much for Malkin's opinions on most things, but she is on target here. This woman Myers has no business in this position.

Chertoff, I believe, is clueless as head of DHS. He's a damned attorney, for heaven's sake! Attorneys spend their lives hedging and hemming and hawing and trying to figure out how to NOT do things.

So why is he heading up the one organization devoted to DOING THINGS, and doing them fast?

Ex-military or current military should be in executive positions dealing with Homeland Security. They know how to make decisions on the fly and break glass and worry about fixing things later.

[brytlea]

For some reason, some of this sounds like sour grapes, or a personal vendetta. Maybe not, but it sure has that kind of ugly feel to it.
susie

[Ben Ficklin]

Chertoff wants her in this position.

Look at it like this, if Congress re-organizes DHS, her position will be eliminated.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"According to some on this board, Border control can't get any worse. So... indeed... what's the worst that could happen?"

Oh I don't know... a city gets nuked by border-crossing terrorists, maybe?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"I don't care much for Malkin's opinions on most things, but she is on target here. This woman Myers has no business in this position."

Well, I for one agree with Malkin most of the time. And I'm glad you see this as well. Perhaps one day, before something terrible happens to a US city, you will understand the GOP's Achilles heel. Unless Bush does absolutely everything he can, there's a very high probability that the GOP will be mud after the next Ground Zero.

The only hope for the GOP [in the future] is to distance itself from Bush's lack of border policy before it hits the fan. I wish we could save that future city, but when the Chief Executive calls pro-safe-borders people 'vigilantes', we'll just have to cross our fingers and hope that the next president reverses this mindset.

[zoddent]

How in the world after the Brown stuff at FEMA can they so quickly make another "political" appointment to head a major agency? First off the timing is terrible, next I disagree with some who have said it can not get worse. It surely can get worse-how about terrorists crossing the borders to create mayhem in some city? We need somebody with experience in at least managing lots of people, preferably with some law enforcement credentials.

Now having said that and even though I am disgusted with this appointment I realize how the real world works. She is the daughter of a very very powerful man and her husband is fairly powerful as well. Her resume on experience is less then many people i know myself, but nobody I know has a powerful relative so I guess its the way of the world.

[rocksblues]

I agree. Putting cronies/connected people in charge of sensitive/important positions must be stopped. And exposed every time no matter who it is making the appointments.

[Prince Charles]

...After working as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., for two years, Myers held a variety of jobs over the past four years at the White House and at the departments of Commerce, Justice and Treasury, though none involved managing a large bureaucracy. Myers worked briefly as chief of staff to Michael Chertoff when he led the Justice Department's criminal division before he became Homeland Security secretary. Myers also was an associate under independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr for about 16 months and has most recently served as a special assistant to President Bush handling personnel issues. Her uncle is Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the departing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She married Chertoff's current chief of staff, John F. Wood, on Saturday.

If this happened in the Clintoon administration people would suspect her only qualifications as being having a worn set of kneepads. It's just as bad that it's happening under this administration. This is not a position that is suitable for OJT.

[rocksblues]

Shouldn't the appointment of such an important post as Director of Immigration be subject to Senatorial review?

I don't know if this department is under DHS but it should be, and the director of it should not be a political hack.

[Melas]

It is often pointed out that MBAs require no actual experience. If you can manage, you can manage any business.

Going totally off topic, that's old school. There is a growing school of thought in the business world that the opposite is true, and that it's the true believer that makes the better manager, not the guy with the business school training. It's growing trend with everyone from IBM promoting more and more engineers into management to Trek dumping MBA's for lesser educated execs with true bicycling experience.

[Melas]

Shouldn't the appointment of such an important post as Director of Immigration be subject to Senatorial review?i>

In a word, no. Everything is laid out nice and neat in the constitution concerning who needs to be vetted by the senate and by exclusion, who doesn't. Constitutional Amendments placing more appointments before the senate aren't likely to be forthcoming.