With Kerik, bush AGAIN demonstrates his total INCOMPETENCE.

[LynnTheDem]

Huh. Bush appointed the top domestic counter-terrorism guy in the US and he doesn't even vet the guy to see if he is, well, a terrorist, or at least a bad cop. But hey, Kerik NEVER TOLD Bush the truth, and as we know, in this White House if you don't TELL the president something, then the president has no obligation to want to, or try to, find out the truth.

The funny thing is that how did so many outside non-profits like CREW, and newspapers across the country, and bloggers/online reporters like John Byrne at RawStory get the inside scoop on Kerik all within a week? Yet the White House didn't have a clue, and had no way of getting a clue about Kerik? They didn't even do an FBI background check on the guy? They couldn't wait a week to do the same investigation everyone else did on the guy? Isn't homeland security worth that kind of due diligence from the White House?

So where was the president while all this was happening?

http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_12_01_americablog_archive.html#110286395540289932

Stuffing donuts in his fat ugly face.

[Jo March]

1. If * had known that Kerik planned to lie to him

he would have done something. Even after reading the briefing, "Kerik is a sleazeball who owes money, doesn't pay taxes, may or may not have a warrant out on him", there was NO WAY that * could have known about Kerik.

LOL.

;)

[nuut]

2. Hmm...

What happened here?

[Philostopher]

3. What's even more embarrassing (for them)

is the fact that they sent Kerik over to Iraq, to train Iraqi police forces, without doing a detailed background check, or they'd have known all this stuff about him months ago.

All this stuff was true before they sent him over there to do that, so I guess they just took Rudy Giuliani's word the guy was OK and didn't do the least bit of background screening on him at all for that 'job,' either.

It's really pathetic -- apparently, Ed Gein could get a cabinet-level appointment with this administration, as long as he had the right recommendation from the right Bushwhore.

[StClone]

4. Kerik must be special

He is the only BushCo monkey cited with ethical problems. Is that so!

[dsewell]

5. Or the tinfoil hat theory

I was at a gathering of Democrats last night and the Kerik appointment came up. I said something like, "Maybe it was all a plot to undermine Guiliani. The Bush people made the appointment as a major payback to Rudy, knowing that Kerik would self-destruct, giving them an excuse to keep Giuliani and like-minded Republican moderates at arm's length as part of the plan to reshape the Republican Party around its right-wing core."

I was no more than half serious, but someone else observed, "What does it say about this Administration that we can't automatically rule that out? That we're willing to believe they're capable of just about any conspiracy theory we can imagine?"

[pretzel4gore]

6. maybe they only wanted to fillup media time

bush's incompetence actually endears him to his base....more importantly, it lets the mediawhores perform xxx acts on the news, which is what the 'news' is....and by the law of displacement killing any appearance of the fraud talk, or economic mess talk, or so on.....the busheviks prefer a story they can handle, even a bad one, to anything else...
in the important theatre, the consolidation of control of the national/global wealth, bush is doing a ok job apparently....
watch the puppeterr, not the puppets

[DemoTex]

7. Just more of Bu$h wrapping himself in the 9/11 mantle.

Pathetically obvious.

[robbedvoter]

8. Some other capo wants the territory - that's all. keril was perfect for

BFEE - but someone even better may crawl out of a sewer.

[Malva Zebrina]

9. something really screwy about this appointment

some political maneuver we are not privy to.

No way this guy was not vetted. NO way.

I cannot figure out the reasoning behind it, except that Guilliani has been destroyed in the process. ??

Bush has nothing to fear by looking like a jackass at this point. Why should he care?

[chaumont58]

10. I agree that it is bizarre

I don't know about the vetting, but this guy was just not qualified. Who recommended him to Bush, Ghohliani? Bizzare.

But one has to think that the country as a whole dodged a bullet. This guy was a disaster waiting to happen.