but as i read more and more about this i am increasingly amazed by just how bad of a nominee he was. not bad in terms of doing a bad job if he were actually confirmed. no, i mean bad in the sense of having so many scandals in his past its hard to imagine this appointment not turning into an embarrassment for the bush administration. in fact, before this weekend i didn't think it was humanly possible to pack this much dirty laundry into a single human being. if you want the details they are all over the place but eligere has a link for each one. by my count here's what we got:
(1) questionable promotions of his friends when he was new york police chiefany one of these things would probably be enough to seriously damage, if not sink, his nomination. but most frightening of all, this walking scandal time bomb was vetted by alberto gonzales, the man slated to be our nation's top law enforcement officer. our safety will soon be in the hands of a man who was unable to find any one of the above facts in his background check, including several (e.g. the iraq trip, the arrest warrant) which were a matter of public record.
(2) retaliation against people with different political beliefs
(3) misuse of NYPD investigators to do his own private bidding
(4) failure to disclose gifts
(5) mob ties
(6) pay-to-play type corruption
(7) use of public funds to commission a bust of himself
(8) a warrant for his arrest in new jersey
(9) a daughter he abandonned in korea
(10) surveilance of employees in a saudi arabian hospital
(11) a sexual harassment lawsuit that resulted from his affair with a subordinate
(12) abandonning his 6 month assignment to be in charge of security in iraq after only 14 weeks and after security took a nose-dive
(13) failing to pay taxes on an illegal alien nanny.
the incompetence of this administration at everything except trashing their political opponents never ceases to amaze me.
