can KERIK be confirmed? | check out this blast from Blumenthal!

[nostamj]

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Kerik's appointment was suggested to Bush by Giuliani. With this favor, Kerik's meteoric career has reached its zenith. The son of a prostitute, high school dropout Kerik fathered an illegitimate daughter in Korea whom he refused to acknowledge and support. He was a bodyguard for members of the Saudi royal family and then became a New York narcotics cop. In 1993, he was tapped as Giuliani's chauffeur and bodyguard. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Giuliani made Kerik deputy police commissioner and chief of the Corrections Department, a Republican patronage dump. One million dollars in taxpayer money used to buy tobacco for inmates disappeared into a private foundation run by Kerik without any accounting. In 2000, Giuliani leapfrogged Kerik over many more qualified candidates to appoint him police commissioner.

Kerik's coordination of command and control on 9/11 was excoriated as "not worthy of the Boy Scouts ... a scandal" by John Lehman, the conservative Republican member of the 9/11 commission.

After 9/11 Kerik spent much of his time writing a self-promoting autobiography, "The Lost Son." The city's Conflict of Interest Board eventually fined him $2,500 for using three policemen to conduct his research. Kerik developed a close relationship with his publisher, Judith Regan, of Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins. When she told him her cellphone was missing after a TV appearance on Fox News, Kerik sent detectives in the middle of the night to question the TV employees. It turned out Regan had simply misplaced the phone. Kerik made her an honorary police commissioner.

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[bryant69]

1. It's a pretty scathing review

I think he will get the nod though. However I also think there's a good possibility that his self aggrandizing way will prove an embarressment to President Bush, particular if he comes under scrutiny. I think he's a potential loose cannon.

Bryant
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[SpiralHawk]

2. I cast one big, fat vote against Stun Gun Kerik

My vote does count, doesn't it?

[nostamj]

4. dunno... do you live in

FL or OH?

[snippy]

3. Even if this POS gets confirmed the democrats have to go through his

record in great detail during the confirmation hearings. Kerik's hearings will be a great opportunity to define the republican party. I would like to hear democrats say things like "He may have embezzled $1 million, but that is fairly minor for a republican." Or " he may have used public employees for his own personal gain, but what republican doesn't?" Every detail of his past should be used as an example of republican values and ethics.

[nostamj]

6. i want to see him openly RIDICULED

as the most RIDCULOUS choice * has made yet.

we would long for the adults who created the color code and duct tape alerts with this utter CLOWN in that position.

[snippy]

8. Me too, but I want it connected to the republican party and Bush.

All too often democrats refuse to make any effort to connect outrageous behavior by one republican politician to the entire republican party. This may be admirable but it is exactly the opposite of what republicans do concerning outrageous behavior by a democratic politician.

[leesa]

5. Of course he will be confirmed. His criminal qualifications

are in order.

[snippy]

9. Good point. His criminal qualifications meet all the requirements of

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

[AlCzervik]

7. When the Abu-Garib story broke and i read some of the details

i emailed Joe Conason right away regarding Kerik. The sodomy story sounded just like what happened in the NYPD under Keriks watch. So Joe actually emailed me back and told me he and "others" will be looking into Kerik and thanked me for the different angle on him, this was way before Kerik was even talked about for the Homeland post.

[nostamj]

10. i really think this could be a *sweet* defeat

for the bushies. proof they just don't take HOMELAND SECURITY seriously. they should LAUGH this clown out of his confirmation hearings

[AlCzervik]

11. I really hope, he is a horror showw

when you go back and look at some of the things that happened under his command in the nypd that should reason enough for him to never hold any post at all.

[Tacos al Carbon]

12. Just look at the senate numbers

He'll be confirmed easily.

[nostamj]

13. i wouldn't be TOO sure...

repubs are NOT going to want to look weak on HS and if the stench from Kerik is strong enough... they're not going to want to defend him in THEIR re-election campaigns

[DinahMoeHum]

14. Given his track record, I now call him "Super Klutz"

The "Peter Principle" perfected.

:evilgrin: