Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Monday, January 04, 2010 4:26:28 PM
Looking into the eyes of Janet Napolitano as she announced to the world that the system "worked" gave me an uneasy feeling that if she was so satisfied with the way things were, she should board the next planes to -- and from -- Yemen. All systems "go."
Later, when Ms. Napolitano made an announcement that the system was -- and I paraphrase -- left over from the previous administration, I knew my first instincts were correct, and that my uneasiness had been justified. When will this administration stop blaming Bush?
I wrote a letter to one of my Senators (the Republican), saying that Ms. Napolitano had as much business being Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security as I did. Which was none at all. I have no such qualifications; I am qualified to see that she lacks those qualifications as well.
I then suggested to my Senator that it had occurred to me that perhaps the Secretary had been chosen by the current administration precisely because of her exquisite incapability to hold that office.
That is not a comfortable way to feel about the handling of safety concerns of the citizens of the United States of America. However, that is what I have come to believe: Napolitano and many others holding high executive offices in the administration are exquisitely unqualified, and that was the basis of their being chosen. I hope it is proven to be an incorrect belief.