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It is also a huge bureaucratic reorganization, needful of an extremely aggressive corporate executive COO type, of which Ridge may have more the Guliani, but I doubt either has enough to pull this off.

Like O'Reilly said tonight and I happen to agree with him, Tom Ridge looks like the $700 suit guy, who hasn't proven himself, yet. Ridge might work out over time, but I'll put my money on Guiliani. This was made for Rudi Guilani and no one else. He turned NYCity around in eight years, reducing violent crimes and bringing down murders from 2500/year to 600/year. He cleaned up the Big Apple, like I've never seen it. And his excellent overall leadership following 9-11, I think really helped prepare the city for the aftermath effects. Rudi's got a solid resume all around. I don't know of anyone, better suited for the job, then Guilani.

Well, those are good points in favor of Guiliani.

That said, whoever has the job will have a 2-6 year re-org project ahead of them:

Select and promote senior managers
Formulate and communicate new specific mission directives
Formulate intermediate and long-term organization structure, with resources
Work around or remove existing bureaucrats
Realign and audit budgets
Realign personnel and channel them into new coordinated mission directions (by this point some benefit should be measureable)
Eliminate obsoleted functions

From the start of Congress approving, I can see that alone taking till 2004.

The rest would include:

Plan and implement new systems and infrastructure (computers, boats, fences checkpoints, etc)
Roll out to points of intervention (airports, border crossing, harbors, depots, refineries, power generators, reseviors, etc..)
Integrate or redevelop various computer systems to work together to support new mission directives (this alone is a monumental undertaking for even high tech companies)
Physical relocation of personnel to different facilities for mission cohesion and synergy
Remove (if possible) deadwood government personnel (non-performers).

I'm sure Democrats will want their oversight pound of flesh, ACLU challenges will need be fought, and I wouldn't be surprised to even see an occasional demand for an Evironmnetal Impact Study. This could easily take an additional 4 years to implement correctly in detail.

. He cleaned up the Big Apple, like I've never seen it. And his excellent overall leadership following 9-11, I think really helped prepare the city for the aftermath effects. Rudi's got a solid resume all around. I don't know of anyone, better suited for the job, then Guilani.

While you and I are in agreement, remember this: The Giuliani of today is not the Giuliani of 8 years ago. His performance, while solid, would be lessened by his bouts with cancer and his personal upheavals.