Posted on 12/27/2009 12:44:08 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Fire Napolitano [Jonah Goldberg]
Understandbly, the White House is trying very hard to get out in front of the would-be Christmas bomber story. The head of the Department of Homeland Security isn't helping. I watched her on three shows and each time she was more annoying, maddening and absurd than the pevious appearance. It is her basic position that the "system worked" because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack. That the attack was "foiled" by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right. That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically. I would wager that not one percent of Americans think the system is "working" when terrorists successfully get bombs onto planes (and succeed in activating them). Probably even fewer think it's fair that they have to take off their shoes, endure delays and madness while a known Islamic radical — turned in by his own father — can waltz onto a plane (and into the country). DHS had no role whatsoever in assuring that this bomb didn't go off. By her logic if the bomb had gone off, the system would have "worked" since it has done everything right.
Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with "man-caused-disasters" afer they occur. It appears she really believes it. If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack.
Here she is her own words, over at RealClearPolitics.
Patently unqualified hack... I like it. Send her back to doing something she's more qualified for, like delivering newspapers.
haha!
I was striving for more toad-like. Alas.
Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with “man-caused-disasters” afer they occur. It appears she really believes it.
So Obama who is responsible???????
Just ‘wafted’ around, huh?
I wonder how the Kenyan’s round of golf was today.
“This bull dyke is sooo ugly she’d make Quasimodo go LIMP!!”
I think it’s a reflection of the real ugly on the inside.
Yep. This is now a new version of terrorism. Don’t have to bomb anything, just toy with the passengers (non-whites, muslims doing the toying) and if the passengers are too encumbered by PC, good, and if not encumbered by PC, good, because they will threaten to sue. It’s a win-win.
A little more “Green” might help. ;)
I seem to recall one of the reasons for Homeland Security was to shield the department from procedures and requirements imposed by collective bargaining agreements. There was a huge fight about it in the house. Bush and company wanted the DHS to have the flexibility to hire, fire, and assign duties to personnel based on merit and competence instead of seniority, and connections.
I read recently that Obama and company are trying to rewrite that portion of the legislation to allow DHS employees to be represented by unions. (SEIU) Sorry, I can’t find the source at the moment.
If you think security and air travel is bad now wait until the TSA is represented by Andy Stern and his associates.
And then there was the agent in AZ, I think, who was alerted to the number of Muslim men wanting to take flight training, but not taking off or landing, just how to navigate and control the airliner in the air. He tried many times to interest Washington in the report but never could.
Now we have a man with no baggage, a one-way ticket paid for with cash and no passport being allowed to fly into an American city.
I am very doubtful we will be able to defend against our enemies much longer unless some serious changes are made. Despite what those in charge think inconveniencing millions of hard-working, tax-paying American citizens with needless security measures has not made us any safer. All that and the ONLY thing that saved us from a disaster was a faulty detonation of device successfully carried on board an international flight and concealed until minutes before landing.
I don't think we can plan on that kind of luck to save us too many times in the future.
She was your Governor? Please tell me she’s fallen on her head or something since that time...
This sounds exactly like Napolitano's claims that everything worked as it should have. To admit the obvious facts would reveal the incompetence...no matter that the lie is so obvious a 3 year old could see through it.
And I agree with you, although there are some ideologically driven elements it's the structure of bureaucracy that's built for mediocrity and failure. Therefore the only rational approach to government is smaller is always better because it allows less room for bureaucracy.
So, where does the US military and its attendant bureaucracies fit into this picture? Perhaps the winning of wars are the occasional filling of certain objectives?
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