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.
You know what they say about being of mayor of NYCity. Next to the job of POTUS, the mayor of NYCity has the second toughtest job in America. And you'll not find a more aggresive, tenacious, assertive and strong individual, then Rudi Guliani.
But Bush and Ridge are buddies and the job is his, if he wants it.