Flashback: Bush's pick to Head Dept. of Homeland Security

[ProSense]

Hypocrisy at it finest:

Kerik's 'Nannygate' Was the Least of It

How revealing that the nomination of Bernard Kerik as Homeland Security chief should be derailed not by the former New York City police commissioner's alleged violations of conflict-of-interest laws, mob connections and post-9/11 security industry profiteering but rather by his rueful admission that he paid no taxes for his "illegal immigrant" baby-sitter.

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Of course, labor law violations are to Big Business what the nickel-a-swear-word jar is to adult visitors to Grandma's house--no big deal. But woe to the political aspirant who doesn't remember the ghosts of Nannygates Past: The law is the law--as Kerik's chief backer, ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, observed in reluctantly agreeing that Kerik had to withdraw--or at least it is once the media find out it has been broken.

So Kerik tried to save a few bucks by hiring an undocumented worker and has paid a certain cost. However, by bowing out now, he may have saved himself a passel of future trouble. NYC's media have been raising issues about potentially far more consequential legal transgressions by Kerik, which Giuliani should have known about before recommending his protege for the national security post.

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So Kerik tried to save a few bucks by hiring an undocumented worker and has paid a certain cost. However, by bowing out now, he may have saved himself a passel of future trouble. NYC's media have been raising issues about potentially far more consequential legal transgressions by Kerik, which Giuliani should have known about before recommending his protege for the national security post.

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041227/scheer1224

[Erika]

1. Linda Chavez, this guy, etc, exploited illegal immigrants

This administration has been neutered by its ineptness and self-guilt.