Ridge Resigns As Homeland Security Chief

[MrRant]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._ca_st_pe/ridge

[kkktookmybabyaway]

I liked Tom when he was guv of PA.

 

Peace out, g...

[Guest Wildbomb 4:20]

Isn't it just a bit, well, weird to see so many Cabinet members turnover this quickly AFTER an election? Not sure if it's good, bad, what have you, but it just seems a little...strange.

 

--Ryan

[Vern Gagne]

No. It happened with Clinton, Reagan, Nixon. People give up alot both person and finacially when they take positions in the cabinet.

[Guest Cerebus]

Yep, this is pretty common its just that, for the most part, most Cabinet members aren't house hold names like they are now.

[Dr. Tom]

^ That's it right there. With the ubiquity of news coverage, these people's names flash by our ears all the time. Factor in other web sites and blogs, and you're seeing the names on a daily basis if you follow current events. We don't know these people (most of us don't, at least), but we feel like we do since we see them on the news so often, and hear so many things they say. Their departures, while common in the second term of an administration, seem more jarring because we've become so used to them.

[Guest BDC]

Hell, I can't blame them, either. They're under an incredible amount of stress.

[Guest Wildbomb 4:20]

Guess I'd have to agree after doing some research. The amount of news coverage with all of these Cabinet members has been somewhat staggering.

 

--Ryan

...oh well, let's see who gets this position...

[Guest Cerebus]

Ridge's job must be second to only the AG as the shittiest spot in the cabinet. I can't blame him for leaving.

[Guest Wildbomb 4:20]

I would have to say that it's a pretty shitty job, because it seemingly looks like just a figurehead position, rather than actually, well, having the power to do anything. Seems kinda like having a new Intelligence Chief. There is no way in hell that that'll solve anything, because the CIA just believes what it wants to, and points to shoddy evidence to come to its conclusions.

 

Still, though, it should be somewhat interesting to see who gets said shitty job, because of how it looks. Not necessarily whether or not what he does is relevent, but whether or not it just looks like a good choice.

 

--Ryan

...I wonder if Mitt might get a nod so he doesn't run in '08?...

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

But hey, he came up with the color codes!

[Ted the Poster]

... which took "months and months", he said.

[BX]

Photo courtesy of AP

 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/02/...rity/index.html

 

Your new Secretary of Homeland Security - the New York City Commissioner of Police during 9/11.

 

I'm speechless.

[Guest Cerebus]

That's not a bad pick, actually.

[Ted the Poster]

He looks like Major Dad.

[MrRant]

That show sucked.

[Rob E Dangerously]

from New York Newsday, November 2003:

 

Kerik had this to say to critics of the war: "Political criticism is our enemies' best friend."

[Vyce]

I knew people like Rob here were going to jump all over that quote, but frankly, more often than not Kerik is absolutely right.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

I knew people like Rob here were going to jump all over that quote, but frankly, more often than not Kerik is absolutely right.

Hm. The idea of suppressing political opposition is correct, eh?

[BX]

I just realized why I was concerned about this.

 

He looks like G. Gordon Liddy.

[Vern Gagne]

I knew people like Rob here were going to jump all over that quote, but frankly, more often than not Kerik is absolutely right.

Hm. The idea of suppressing political opposition is correct, eh?

Where does he do anything of the sort?

[Vyce]

I knew people like Rob here were going to jump all over that quote, but frankly, more often than not Kerik is absolutely right.

Hm. The idea of suppressing political opposition is correct, eh?

Wow, I don't see where either I or Kerik have advocated that. I'm not surprised to see you try and put that rather twisted spin on it, though.

 

But no one.....excuse me, no one RATIONAL....can deny that the political criticism of the left in regards to the war in Iraq has been quite effectively parroted by our enemies in radical Islam and, in the case of Moore's trash piece, is serving as propaganda to fuel anti-American sentiment around the globe.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

What's the point of the comment unless that's the underlying intention?

 

Everyone knows that people parrot political criticism for their own gains. Why point it out unless you're saying that political criticism is a bad thing?

 

If his comments had no point other than to state that our enemies use political criticism for their own advantage, he's the extreme and undisputed master of the obvious.

[BX]

Oh Well.

 

Kerik Withdraws Consideration for Homeland Security Appointment.

[Hogan Made Wrestling]

Oh Well.

 

Kerik Withdraws Consideration for Homeland Security Appointment.

Who in Washington DOESN'T have an illegal nanny/butler/gardener/groundskeeper?

[Jobber of the Week]

I can't read one article about this guy without hearing the usual HE WAS THERE and HE WAS IN COMMAND shit re: 9/11. I'm almost happy to see this happen because I'd like to see this administration prove that they can do SOMETHING without 9/11 tying into it somehow. It's like they're fucking immersed.

[BX]

What was it the Soviet Union used to say when one of it's officals had to "step down?"

 

It's almost like that here. if the Gov. wants to fire someone without airing it's dirty laundry, it just announces that they had an "illegitimate nanny."

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Well, maybe his housekeeper was a terrorist...

[Hogan Made Wrestling]

Well, maybe his housekeeper was a terrorist...

Mexican terrorists? Holy shit we are in trouble...

[Ted the Poster]

I wouldn't worry. Most can't afford the money even for a dirty bomb.

 

I keed, of course. Mostly.