Is it wrong to enjoy Kerik being taken down?

[MikeG]

Poll question: Is it wrong to enjoy Kerik being taken down?

[Zynx]

1. Fuck 'em. He's scum.

[illbill]

2. He has...

ties to the mob.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Why Should I Feel Bad?

He's just another on the long list of Rethugs with skeletons in the closet. They are supposed to have more "morality" than the rest of us, remember? Heh.

[complain jane]

4. I think it's friggen hilarious.

But I think it's pathetic and frightening & disheartening that the public won't see it for what it is.

[Nothing Without Hope]

I agree. It's being painted as poor Kerik being attacked over a trifle.

Why should anyone feel bad about Kerik being taken down? I can tell you I also am enjoying the embarrassment of Kerik's loathsome patron, Rudy:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1066597

They have both earned disgrace a thousand times over but still have places in the power structure.

[Gothmog]

5. Kerik representats just another Bush mistake

Bush hates to admit to any mistakes and Kerik is just another bush mistake that is fun to poke at.

[RafterMan]

6. It's wrong

Kerik was going to be an insignificant person in an insignificant post, and will be replaced with someone who is not better. His posting was just payback for Rudy's support -- now the payback will go to some other supporter.

If you think it signals a shift in the Washington scandalometer, then maybe it's worth getting a little excited about, and that might happen but I've fallen for that before and I'm not holding my breath.

[Inland]

8. Homeland Security is insignificant because Bush appoints nobodies

You are mistaking cause and effect. Appointing Kerik would shrink the office to his lack of qualification. Him being determined unsuitable for only some of the right reasons gives the post a chance to be as important as it should be.

[RafterMan]

9. No, I think it's an insignificant job, period.

I don't think it should exist at all but since it does, I don't think it matters who gets put in it.

[Inland]

7. The guy didn't get a job he didn't deserve and wasn't qualified for.

Just because Bush did it doesn't mean everyone gets to do it.

[NoPasaran]

10. It would be wrong to enjoy watching him devoured by piranhas

Entertaining, but very, very wrong.

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. Yes, and very very wrong to smear him with peanut butter and...

...put him in a cage with scary-looking rats the size of terriers and a marked attraction to slimy political thugs,
or epoxy an itchy Harpo Marx wig to the top of his pate,
or make him listen to 1000 consecutive repetitions of that irritating Disney song, "It's a Small World After All,"
or ...

...(clears throat)...

yes, all very, very, very wrong to fantasize about.

He would sure look funny in a Harpo wig, though...

[ElectroPrincess]

21. Damn! One less medicinal joint for you tonight Mr. NWH!

[Nothing Without Hope]

28. Nope, no chemical imagination stimulants required.

Kerik is just so stupidly ridiculous to me, as he struts around in his oh-so-carefully choreographed Mean & Manly Shamble. Even Bush is said to have liked him because his "tough cop" image looked cool, which is no surprise given Our Leader's deep experience with men of true courage (yes, I am being sarcastic). But Kerik is such a ludicrous fake. It's not that corruption, thuggishness, and hypocrisy are funny, it's that Kerik's such a fraud in his macho pretensions. Such a cartoonish character would have been just right as the leader of the Dept of Crayolas and Craven Scare Tactics.

[tedzbear]

39. How about stripping him naked and leading him around on a leash?

While playing heavy metal music very loud.

[kip_russell]

11. the entire situation is suspect

in that these recent nominations are too convenient. there are literally thousands of public servants in all levels of state and federal government that are more qualified than Kerik, et al, but whom does * nominate for appointment? precisely.

[ChiciB1]

33. You got it 'er Right!

From the very beginning I had a "hinky" feeling about him and CONNECTIONS! I can't believe they actually used the word MOB on TV today! I can't say I thought it was THE MOB, but I thought he had his fingers a cookie jar of organizations like that!

Geez, I still think it would have been fun to see how THEY would have SPUN it!

Actually, THEY probably knew a lot more than we think, but being the pompous asses they are they figured everyone would look the other way! I mean they've gotten away with almost EVERYTHING else! What made the Media move on this one?? That's a question I would like the answer to.

[comradebillyboy]

12. i think the right word is "schadenfreude"

my german spelling may be off, but i personally am taking malicious delight in l'affaire kerik

[starroute]

13. We get few enough simple pleasures these days

Let us enjoy the ones we have.

[BeHereNow]

14. Hell NO! When the SCOTUS claims "Gawd" is guiding him?

It's down right DIVINE justice that the pResident
is proven to be WRONG in his so called "guidance."
This error in decision making easily extends itself to
Iraqnam.
Maybe Bush had better re evaluate those voices in
his head?
bhn

[Piperay]

15. I'm loving it ...

he is a filthy piece of repuke scum and I hope his career and marriage are ruined. :evilgrin:

[against all enemies]

16. Hope they take Leiberman, get him out of the Senate.

[Pirate Smile]

18. I recall him taking some VERY nasty shots at Kerry for BushCo. F' em.

[Malikshah]

19. Until every last hypocrite is frogmarched to prison

justice will not have been achieved.

Every
Last
One of them!

[XemaSab]

30. Hey,

That's "freedom" marched.

[Malikshah]

34. Je suis desole

Pardon mon ami ;)

[XemaSab]

38. C'est rien

:-)

[ElectroPrincess]

20. Oh MikeG, you have a kind soul to consider being thoughtful to

the likes of Kerik. I don't feel guilty celebrating because people like him are immune to what I (we liberals) think anyway.

So let's Par-Tay! <eg>

[RebelOne]

22. I think it is without question that we all voted no.

[oasis]

23. Kerik's been "on the take" his entire adult life.

[tabasco]

24. It's kind of frightening...

These people are in charge of our national security and they don't turn up an arrest warrant that a two-bit PI would have found?????

[Eugene]

29. More frightening still: the WH knew all about his colorful past

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6705694/

So what scandal really took him down?
How big a screwup does it take
to be too smelly for BushCo?

[itzamirakul]

36. His two mistresses took him down (no pun intended)

He was having affairs with a married police officer (female) and also with Judith Reagan (of Reagan Publishing), a writer who does the bios of most top rightwingers. she did his too. She is an inveterate basher of Hillary for Bills sexcapades and of Monica and says that she herself has an interesting sex life.

The two women found about each other.

Kerik kept wife in million dollar home on Staten Island, kept a love pad down at Ground Zero (called Battery Park area) and also another apartment on E. 79th Street (posh neighborhood).

All this was smashing front page news in today's NY Daily news. Murdoch, owner of FAUX News and NY Post isn't saying anything about it in his paper. Wonder why?

Kerik was interviewed on local tv and he said everything was picking up speed and running downhill like a snowball.

[Forkboy]

25. I almost want to choose yes just to fuck up the poll

:evilgrin:

[fnottr]

26. Nah

It feels good on a gut level, although I don't think there's much to actually feel good about, it's not as if whoever they pick is going to be much better.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Would've even enjoyed it more if he had been confirmed, then taken down.

Big time egg on the face for the Boob-in-Chief and the Dems who rolled over.

[Sparkly]

37. haHA!!

Yup, woulda been delicious. :hi:

[More Than A Feeling]

31. He has set a new record for corruption.

Everything he could possibly taint, he did.

[ChiciB1]

32. I Voted No, But

wouldn't it have been LOTS of Fun watching from the sidelines IF he had been confirmed??

Maybe some of the Media might have started to do their JOBS and we could have yelled "FOUL" to the roof-tops!

[Cha]

35. I look at it this way..

What if he hadn't withdrawn his name? He would have been passed through no matter what they found(check out his supporters for the job) and we would be stuck with ghouliani's hit man and the repercussions that followed.

We have every freakin' right to celebrate :party:

[Pachamama]

40. Schadenfreude Baby... :)

:bounce: Well Deserved....