Comments on: Caution, genius at work

By: gs

gs — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:35:08 +0000

...Napolitano admitted Thursday that she made a mistake -- since the 9/11 Commission concluded that the hijackers entered the U.S. from overseas. But when asked about the gaffe on FOX News Friday, McCain said: "Well, some of the 9/11 hijackers did come through Canada, as you know."

By: doug in colorado

doug in colorado — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:24:11 +0000

Janet “Wile E. Coyote” Napolitano is a sterling example of the Left’s leadership who get all their news, views, facts and education from the New York Times and the Washington Post. Running a country isn’t Rocket Science… However, keeping it from running into the ground at speed, may be.

By: sophie

sophie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:41:44 +0000

gs, you make me sad.
You’re right, no arguement there, but the fact that this is the ELECTED government is a tragic statement that Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were right, the American experiment would fail and the tree of liberty would have to be watered every 25 years.
I say we should all move to Texas and secede. Janet probably would be grateful, how many illegal mexicans would come through there then?
As for you, feeblemind, do you really think these monsters believe in anything but their own superiority over the rest of us “unwashed masses?”

By: feeblemind

feeblemind — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:00:40 +0000

Well said, gs. And we haven’t mentioned one obvious qualification needed, belief in the ideology. From her actions so far, it is clear to me that she and Obama are kindred spirits.

By: OriginalFrank

OriginalFrank — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:58:12 +0000

Janet Reno was unavailable.

By: Maggie's Farm

Maggie's Farm — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:12:02 +0000

Thursday morning links…

Got MILFs? This from Iowa via Blair.
If the NYT dies, would that be a bad thing? (h/t, Small Dead Porcupines)
Disgraced sociopathic prof sues Columbia for $200 mill. Talk about truth and honor.
Liberal icon Izzie Stone was a Soviet agent….

By: gs

gs — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:57:35 +0000

And yet...and yet... I took another look at Napolitano's bio:

While still serving as attorney general, she spoke at the 2000 Democratic National Convention just three weeks after having a mastectomy. Napolitano remembers the pain being so bad she could hardly stand up...

How to reconcile such heroic determination with the smug incompetence that Jack decries? IMO Paul's comment two months ago is relevant:

It’s what you get from a team of glorified clerks, Yale/Harvard system gamers. They’ve grade grubbed, networked, sniffed their way to the top and now out in front, in the clear and separated from their elderly, formal mandarin institutions are clueless.

To an increasingly dangerous extent, our society trains and selects its high achievers using incentives that are bad for our society.

By: feeblemind

feeblemind — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:16:24 +0000

How did she get her job? Rhetorical question. I know, but I will take a stab at it anyway. She’s a woman. The cabinet must be multi-culti and ‘look like America’, to re-use an old phrase. Merit/competence has nothing to do with it.

By: gs

gs — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:33:13 +0000

She also evidently doesn’t understand that illegal immigration is a crime…

Maybe they’re tightening up the Canadian border to preclude illegal emigration.

As the National Post asked: “Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job?”

And how did she get reelected a border-state governor in a landslide?

It’s the government we deserve, I guess…