I’m not the only one unimpressed by Janet Napolitino. Here’s a report from someone with the stomach to watch her on TV.
[The] White House is trying very hard to get out in front of the would-be Christmas bomber story. The head of the Department of Homeland Security isn’t helping. I watched her on three shows and each time she was more annoying, maddening and absurd than the previous appearance. It is her basic position that the “system worked” because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack. That the attack was “foiled” by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right. That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically.
As I said yesterday, the lady’s sexual orientation is irrelevant – the suspicion that she was appointed to her present position because of that orientation is not. Fire her now, would you, oh Great One? She’d do a heck of a job in New Orleans, if you want to reassign her.
Absurd! The very word I was searching for. Absurd may work on reality shows, but it doesn’t play well at the helm of Homeland Security.
If any of you are so inclined, please contact the offices of your Senators and Reps on Monday and raise the roof. Be sure to repeat one of her nuggets of wisdom to the staffer and tell them it’s been nice knowing them. Make sure this goes to the reductio ad absurdum of Obama having to say “Janet Napolitano has my full confidence”.
No, No we already have enough entertaining characters trying to keep us on the primrose path to the third world. Now that we seem to be making a little progress (The city council actually seems to have a few serious individuals and I think Jindal shows promise), please don’t send her here. She’d probably be horrified by the locals anyway. I can’t see her fitting in too well.
“Fire her now, would you, oh Great One?”
How about firing the “Great One?” If ever there were a “man-made (i.e., elected) disaster,” Obummer is in the hall of fame.