Amid Many Fights Over Qualifications, a Bush Nomination Stalls in Senate

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Faced with accusations that the Bush administration is stocking the government with unqualified cronies, the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding up the nomination of a lawyer with little background in immigration or customs to head the law enforcement agency in charge of those issues.
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The homeland security chairwoman, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, says she now wants to inquire further into the qualifications of Julie L. Myers to be assistant secretary of homeland security for immigration and customs enforcement.

The senior Democrat on the Senate committee, Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, said Friday that he was not persuaded by a confirmation hearing last week that Ms. Myers, who has worked the last four years at the White House and in several agencies, satisfied the legal requirement that the official in charge of the immigration agency have at least five years' experience in law enforcement and management.

Ms. Myers, 36, is on her honeymoon and cannot be immediately called to testify again. She has strong Republican connections and is the niece of Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before she joined the Bush administration, she was a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/politics/24appoint.html

[Tuttle]

1. even Maulkin can see the cronyism here

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003576.htm

Tut-tut

[struggle4progress]

14. Myers musta done somethin to PO the wingnuts. eom

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Another crony? The horror!

:sarcasm:

[Why Syzygy]

3. "Accusations"?

I thought it was a proven FACT!

When gwdubya needs somebody, he looks around his circle of incest.
Who does not know that? Really. Comeon.

edit: READ THE ARTICLE! Great. The main requirement for filling the public trusted offices is CAMPAIGN, CAMPAIGN, CAMPAIGN. Get me elected and you'll ride. That is way beyond "cronyism". I think it's called blackmail. Can our country suffer any more from the "elite"? Can they stop being the "elite"? Any time now is fine with me.

[Maine-ah]

4. holy shit.

Susan Collins finally does something right.

[Uncle Roy]

5. Maybe the Katrina / FEMA / "Great job, Brownie!" fiasco woke her up? (nfm)

[powwowdancer]

8. only one thing ever "wakes up" a politician...

EXPEDIENCY

:dem:
powwowdancer out

[UpInArms]

15. has the lack of K-Y finally gotten to her? ..........eom

[MaineDem]

6. Gee, Susie. You're not even up fo re-election

Why are you doing this?

It's not like her.

[powwowdancer]

7. et tu, susan?

Man, monkey boy's chutzpah must be reaching staggering levels for his own cronies to accuse him of cronyism! "Brownie's doin' a great job!" Things just get curioser and curioser.

:dem:
powwowdancer out

[leesa]

9. Oh, a little perk for the Traitor Meyers, eh?

Did they notice Roberts is a purely political appointee as well?

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. And even Lieberman is "not persuaded"

that he should kiss dubya's ass again. Hmmm, imagine that.

[Straight Shooter]

11. Immigration and customs enforcement.

That is a ticking time bomb and bush wants to put a 36-year-old with very little going for her in that position?

I can almost hear it now: "You're doin' a heck of a job, Ju-Ju."

[pfitz59]

12. "niece of Gen. Richard B. Myers:....

payback to Myers for being an Admin Tool? This is how its done, fill 2nd and 3rd tier admin jobs with friends and family. nation can't survive another 3 years of Bush* cronyism....

[Lochloosa]

13. So, the Senate decides to do it's job

About time....:sarcasm: