Posted on 09/22/2005 2:19:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"This woman may not be qualified. But the dummycrats have no room to complain."
That still doesn't make it right.
"What gives Malkin the moral and scholastic authority to question Myer's qualifications?"
Don't we all have that right?
"she's probably going to be good, simply because I have seen so many people here on FR trashing her"
Real sound logic there..
No, I'm afraid that wouldn't do.
"then why didn't Malkin and others first suggest someone for this position"
Its her job to fill openings for bush's admin?
He appoints a 36 years old, a lawyer and a political appointee with limited executive experience and she is slated to become head of one of the nation's most critical security-related agencies, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)
And you question Malkin?
No.
Malkin tries to imply that this is croneyism, some sort of political appointment on the part of Bush.
The reality is that Myers has worked for Chertoff before and he offered this job to her. Since the job of Assistant Secretary requires Senate approval, Bush has to nominate her to the job. Bush had nothing to do with hiring her.
Chertoff should be allowed to run the agency as he sees fit.
Myers is not a political appointee, she is a career employee. Her resume has been posted here several times. Maybe you and Malkin should look at it.
The statements that Voinavitch made to Myers actually happened. But as the WaPo article points out, and NewsMax leaves out, Voinavitch met with Chertoff after the hearing and now supports Myers.
It's the truth. Whenever there's an all-out assault on somebody, it's usually conducted by sleeper trolls, who whip up the hysteria and then disappear. I think we should do a little more research before we start screaming that the sky is falling.
No, I don't need to see the young ladies resume.
I don't know, just a guess, but it would seem to me, looking at this crisis, and the lawlessness it's been causing, not to mention the billions it's costing the American tax payers, you'd think they would appoint someone with a proven, lengthy military/intelligence and border security background.
Of course what do I know?
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Well, before you comment on a story, you could bother getting to know the facts behind it:
http://nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200509221416.asp
"Given the importance of the position and a history of mismanagement in the immigration service, Congress took the unusual step of inserting a statutory requirement that nominees have a minimum of five years of experience in both management and law enforcement. Even a cursory reading of her resume reveals that the well-connected 36-year-old attorney’s background fails to comply with this legal requirement; in fact, she meets the bare minimum only by counting her current stint in White House Personnel, where she manages, by her own account, “up to three deputies as well as support staff and interns.”"
Not exactly the kind of fully qualified candidate most people would want to protect our nation as head of the ICE division.
Especially when there are much better candidates out there.
Which begs the question: Why nominate her? Because she will be a good soldier and not try to hard to enforce ALL the laws?
Garcia moved over to DOJ to becomes US Attorney for the southern district of New York.
Is anything he does not criticized? Even by many on this forum?
Myers is no more or less qualified for the job than the previous Assistant Secretary.
Well, believe it or not, I am not surprised. But what does this have to do with what I posted? Do you disagree with it?
There are individuals there with the skills/experience that you mention. In fact, the Acting Assistant Secretary is such a person. Hiring Myers will not deprive the Agency of the 'nuts and bolts' employees.
You are being taken in by this malarkey that Myers is a Bush's political appointee.
Chertoff should be able to hire/fire whoever he wants.
It never ceases to amaze me how some people come to their conclusions.
It has only been a week since horse-man Mike Brown, another political appointee who had no business heading FEMA was given the boot.(Mike Brown is propably a nice man, maybe even worthy of a political appointment...but not head of FEMA)
and now another political appointment to a position of EXTREME importance to head imigration with another inexperienced nominee who propably is a great person, a wonderful mom and great blood running thru her veins, but she is not qualified to head Imigration.
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