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[TLyttle]

Aint that a fact...

My problem with it is that the silly broad is in a VERY high, VERY powerful position. Stupid me, I think that is wrong.

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by TLyttle

Aint that a fact...

My problem with it is that the silly broad is in a VERY high, VERY powerful position. Stupid me, I think that is wrong.

FEMA and the DHS are not where you put "key" people. They've been dumping grounds for second string players, figureheads who get a sinecure and leave the mental heavy lifting to their staff.

A good example of how FEMA operates was the recent Katrina Disaster, where Bush was successfully bullied into crapping millions of dollars onto New Orleans rather than be branded a "racist". I'm sure that his buddies down south made a killing on contracts as well.

The first director of DHS was Pennsylvania's own Tom Ridge. We used to call him "Windbreak Ridge" after the movie featuring Clint Eastwood. The guy was a water carrier for the blue stocking crowd who have kept the Republican Rubes in line for ages, so as his reward he got a Governor's position. I think he had designs on the big job but the Bush people got in line first. So as a consolation prize Bush gave him the job of running the latest US satrapy, which is only really known by their formal subdivision the TSA, which to most Americans are those peeping Toms and Gropers who work in Airports sniffing out terrorists and well endowed blonde women.

You want to hear something really scary? Rumor control has it that Bush wanted some advice on how to set up the DHS. So he hired a man from Russia named Yevgeny Primakov to help him design it. Primakov's job under Yeltsin was running the Sucessor to the KGB's First Directorate. Swell, so our US President was hiring KGB people to help design the DHS.

Gene