[rocksblues]

WTF?

[henderson field]

That's the way Clinton did it: appoint people with no qualifications. If you did that in the business world, they would send you to the insane asylum. Stop and think, Mr. President.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping please.

[gubamyster]

ping

[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.

[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.