deeply saddened
Posted on 12/09/2004 6:55:41 AM PST by STARWISE
Oh my God ... how .. how could this be?
You have to watch what the administration does, rather than listen to what it says.
Do you have a link to the story ?
One of the first things I thought of after the victory was that we could finally get rid of this worthless POS.
Whatta shame!
Maybe you could expound on your opinion instead of just saying you are sick. The news that usually makes me sick, is if a love one has been diagnosed with cancer, not that a Cabinet member is staying on.
He should have been booted LONG AGO!
Maybe his wife makes some Asian dish Dubya really likes. I can't think of any other possible reason to keep him around.
So we will continue to keep pilots unarmed, but the new Intelligence Bill eliminates butane lighters being carried by passengers on planes. UNFRIGGIN' REAL!!
Thanks for the breaking news; however, please keep your personal reactions out of breaking news headlines. As much as your title gave me a chuckle and everything.
It shouldn't be necessary to elaborate. He's worse than worthless. He's harmful to our national security.
Okay I'll bite. Why are you so pained by his staying on? The fact that he is a Democrat? What has he done wrong, maybe I missed it. Dont tell me this goes back to guns in the cockpit?
He is the worst of the Bush cabinet. Every once and a while, Bush does something that not only do I disagree with, but it makes me question his real alliances. Doesn't happen often, fortunately, but this is one of those times.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush moved to complete his second-term Cabinet on Thursday with an announcement that the heads of the transportation, labor, interior and housing departments would remain in their jobs.
The White House said Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson will stay.
Bush was to announce on Thursday morning his nomination for veterans affairs, after the resignation on Wednesday of Anthony Principi.
Nine of 15 Cabinet secretaries have resigned. Bush has still to name nominees to head the Energy Department and the department of Health and Human Services.
The White House announced on Wednesday that Treasury Secretary John Snow would stay in his job, ending a frenzy of speculation about whether he would be replaced.
LOL! A very good reason to keep someone around.
You know? The left is right sometimes....Bush can have moments of pure stupidity.
Keeping Mineta on is one of them.
Leaving our borders wide open is another.
not surrounding the U.N. with Tanks is another.
And why the delay in Judges? why wait untill the new year?
And wait untill Specter knifes us all in the Back.
I'm getting sick and tired of these weak-kneed, gutless
Republicans. when are they going to learn that we cant play with these democrats... they are lying snakes and
will betray us in a heartbeat...
Ok, still not hearing any specifics.
And don't forget we will still be FINEING AIRLINES FOR "PROFILING"
Yeah, surrounding the UN with tanks will get us a lot of House and Senate seats in 2006.
I think I know what Michelle Malkin's next column will be about.
Absolutely sickening.
Hey, I agree he is bad, but the devil you know is sometimes better than the devil you don't know. I think the only thing that would help the Transportaion Department is a Goss like person that would kick butt and flush out a good number of the rascals.
Seems to me that with the current upheaval/housecleaning at the CIA, the imminent appointment of a new intellegence Czar, and Dr. Rice headed to mop up the mess at the State Dept., that an overhaul of the Transportation Deparment will have to wait.
President Bush needs a token Democrat in the cabinet, M'nta is better than Albright or some other liberal talking fool.
JMHO
Well, it'll at least get them to pay their parking tickets!
How has he been harmful to our national security? How many terrorist attacks have we had since 9/11? Could it be that the policies put in place by the DOT and Justice Dept. have prevented further attacks? I do not agree with many of the policies on airport security but I think those decisions come from higher up than the Secretary.
See? Even whan Dubya makes a mistake it's in his favor. Which makes it in our favor.
Passionate conservative?
Having a sick family member may be unfortunate, but its effect is typically limited to their personal circle of friends. Mineta staying in his current post means continued endangerment of millions of Americans, including ALL our loved ones.
Ok, still not hearing any specifics.
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Yea, could someone give a summary of bad things Mineta's done, his political leanings etc.. etc..
I don't really have any opinion on him cuz I don't know anything about him or his past actions.
Maybe he was afraid Asians would balk at Mineta's removal. If that be the case, I suggest Michelle Malkin as a replacement.
No list. However, as a resident of a city Mineta mayored once upon a time, I will say he was/is considered very much a PC liberal here, even by NoCA stds.
Disgusting! I thought this jackass would be out the door on November 3rd!!!!
thnx. ughh... He's a democrat too huh? How can they hire 20 thousand more people then they are congressionally mandates to? Sounds like it's a mess over there.
I'm in favour of a Constitutional amendment that limits the number of agencies we can have. A good number would be 2 - department of homeland security and DoD. :)
Well, as just one example of his boneheadedness... he has stated publicly and for the record that the TSA / FAA would never under any circumstances institute any kind of racial or ethnic profiling wrt screening passengers. That's why my eight-year-old daughter is subjected to rigorous scrutiny before boarding a flight, but Mohammed Al Terrorist just strolls right through!
deeply saddened
yeh, isnt he the same NITWIT that said racial profiling on air passengers was a BAD IDEA? Then 3000 Americans lost their lives on 9/11 and the MORON still stood by that claim? Murderer would be a more accurate description of this POS!
Yeah, and wussified responses and ideas like yours give the(R)'s scum like Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe...REAL "Profiles In Moderation"/LIEBERAL SELLOUTS!
Clean up your own neck of the woods (Somalia refugees taking obver) before recommending that we suck it up and accept IDIOTS like Norm Minetta in ANY high-profile/Security function....the man DROOLS stupidity and PC CRAP for G_d's sake!
Well, I'm not the original poster, but...
Mineta is the one behind the insane political correctness that defines airline security procedures. Like punishing a security person should they dare to pull aside more than the allowed quota of MEM (Middle Eastern Males) for secondary inspection. Instead, they pull out elderly whites/blacks/etc., people on walkers, and pat them down, make them pull their shoes off, etc., while MEM walk through unfettered. There's more Mineta where that comes from, but that's enough for me. NOT a good cabinet retention.
MM
Just another fact that Bush has never been nor ever will be a conservative. I expect lots more between now and the end of his term. We need to make sure that during the next two election cycles that RINOS get thrown out of the party.
He wasn't asked to stay on; he just has not resigned.
Condi as SOS, Rumsefeld at Defense, Kerik at Homeland, Guiterraz at Commerce, and Powell out.
Mineta, Snow, Chao are not the sum of his appointments.
Specifically, what has Mineta done (or not done) that riles you?
Kroft: Are you saying, at security screening desks, that a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach, Florida, would receive the same level of scrutiny as a-a-a Muslim young man from Jersey City?
Mineta: Basically, I would hope so.
WATCH OUT THE KID'S GOTTA GUN!!
LA AIRPORT SECURITY MORONS TAKE 2 INCH PLASTIC GUN
just the one's you bring, as soon as you go through security, you can buy one in any of the stores inside the terminal
Don't know if this is one of those things...
Savage will be going bananas over this little gem. Gotta tune in today.
...anyd why my mother, in her 70's, was taken to a private room and made to disrobe. I can't imagine why she was targeted for such special attention. She probably looked like someone who wouldn't complain about the treatment.
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