In defense of McKinney
 

It won't happen before the crew gets really worried about Tony geting too close to him.

Dear Sidd: I believe I speak for all republicans here when i say we will not defend the actions of the Deputy Press Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security- get this- even though he is a Republican political appointee.

Should someone post about him, and then a follow up post moves in a different direction, this does not mean someone is trying to deflect the discussion.

Hank (helpful) Chinaski

What's the over-under on when Bush gives him a medal?

I note that you are careful to only speak actions the Bush appointee's "actions", so I trust that other than this incident, you think he was a fine appointment? Just the same way Brownie always did a great job other than that one little foul up?

Penske Alert
 

So I was watching Tom "the Hammer" DeLay last nigt on Nightline, and I saw an odd similarity between his rhetorical style and Penske's - each is adept at responding to every question with "it's the liberals fault" or "why do you hate America" or "the liberal media are to blame". It's really rather comical. Of course, the liberals and media are at fault for all those fingers in the cookie jar.

But then, I expect to see a lot of new socks soon, given all the free time on Tom "Line My Pockets" DeLay's hands.

Never. even Clinton wouldn't have approved of internet sexual predators (at least against minors).

Hank (playing to your expectations) Chinaski

Penske Alert
 

So are you trying to say that Delay is Penske's sock (or vice versa). Would explain why Penske's been gone lately

Did anyone else see Brownie on the Colbert Report last week (I caught up on Tivo last night)? I was somewhat impressed that he's showing his face in public, much less subjecting himself to Stephen Colbert.

Missed it, but I did catch him on Maher a couple of weeks ago. Seems to me he's looking for redemption wherever he can find it.

He's been on the warpath of late. It's not my fault--DHS is a mess and I didn't get the support I needed.

Anyone else read the article about how DHS has a lot of acting directors because no one wants teh political appointments? THe best part was a quote from some congressman to the effect that, "we want to get the acting people out and the political people in so we can hold someone responsible." Yeah, good promo for hte position.

Hank, Penske -- What's the Difference?
 

DeLay intends to file an ethics complaint against McKinney.

PLF: we need an irony ruling.

Hank, Penske -- What's the Difference?
 

Don't worry. The Cops don't recognize her- they'll never get service.

Hank (float like a butterfly- sting like a bee) Chinaski

He's right. DHS incident response plans are public record. And they are a fucking mess. Very little is concrete; it's more of a "plan to plan." Worse, nothing is remotely findable in an actual, you know, emergency.

A publicly traded company with a disaster recovery plan this bad would be up to its eyeballs in SOx compliance problems.

Put aside who's in charge for a minute- what plan do you expect to be in effect? If they had a plan to evacuate NO "if the levees break in a major Hurricaine" I would want to know why they didn't get out and beef up the levees.

the page starts out by saying most problems are handled locally- and only major things are national- major things are less predictable and less the stuff for which you can plan.

So why can Baseball get someone of Sen. Mitchell's status to come in and clean up the mess when Bush can't get mid-level paperpushers to work for Homeland Security? Do you think DeLay would take the job?