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You're Doing a Heckuva Job Bushy! Bush Appoints Another Unqualified Idiot
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| occrider |
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'Zero experience'
A Register-Guard Editorial
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2006
President Bush continues to do a heckuva job installing unqualified cronies in key government posts. Even though the Michael Brown debacle at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is still good for a few laughs on the Leno and Letterman shows, Bush may inject new life into late night TV monologues with his recent appointment of Ellen Sauerbrey to head the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
Sauerbrey lacks Brown's keen knowledge of Arabian horses, but in all other respects she appears just as unqualified to handle disaster relief efforts as was the disgraced former FEMA director. During her October Senate hearings, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., tactfully told Sauerbrey what was on every senators' mind: "It doesn't appear that you have very specific experience."
The New York Times was a bit more blunt: "Ms. Sauerbrey has zero experience in emergency management and refugee resettlement."
Zero experience. That's an astounding benchmark, impossible to beat. There is no less-than-zero level of experience.
What kinds of disasters and refugee situations does the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration address? Rwanda. Darfur, Sudan. Kosovo. Iraq. Gaza Strip. Southeast Asia tsunami. Pakistan earthquake. It's the last place anyone wants to see a director with zero experience.
Previous directors of the bureau have served as U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, director of foreign disaster assistance at the Agency for International Development and senior deputy assistant secretary of State for Refugee Programs. One of them was a Republican appointed by President Clinton.
There's actually something even worse about Sauerbrey's back-door recess appoint to this post than her zero experience. She is revered by the religious right for her strident opposition to sex education, safe sex initiatives, emergency contraception, abortion and the entire range of women's reproductive health services that are absolutely vital to refugee populations.
Fully 80 percent of refugees are women and children. Because of the extremely high rates of sexual violence, coercion and disease risk in refugee camps, women must have access to effective reproductive health, contraception and sexually transmitted disease prevention programs.
It might not matter if the president of the United States wanted this television show host and two-time loser as the Republican candidate for Maryland governor to be the Minister of Silly Walks. But Bush has tapped Sauerbrey to head an agency with 100 employees and a $700 million annual budget that regularly confronts more complex and difficult global crises than FEMA typically faces in the United States.
This is a disastrous appointment that reflects poorly on the president and the nation. It deserves to be undone at the first opportunity, immediately after this year's congressional elections.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2...section=opinion
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You would think that he might learn from his past mistakes. Sigh ... this brings me back to my first thoughts when he got elected in 2000:
"well, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but at least he'll surround himself with competant people" |
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| occrider |
"I do have experience managing resources. I do have experience in managing people," Sauerbrey said. "I think these are highly transferable skills."
I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? |
Have you seen my stapler? |
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| Moongoose |
I need to download some daily show episodes to see what mr Stewart has to say on this subject.
"Ellen you are doing one hell of a job" |
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| josh4 |
| Yeah, she's going to have a lot of medals by the time this job is done. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
Yeah, she's going to have a lot of medals by the time this job is done. |
Perhaps, but only if she does her job by screwing more things up. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? |
nagga...nagga...notgonnaworkhere anymore. |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shakka
Have you seen my stapler? |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? |
Uh-oh. Sounds like someones got a case of the Mondays. :p |
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| Fir3start3r |
omfg Shakka....I'm going to kill you..........my sides hurt..... |
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