Porter Goss' Disqualification? He's A Republican
So last week John Kerry is deriding President Bush for not immediately swallowing all the 9/11 commission recommendations sight-unseen. This morning Dubya announces his choice for Director of Central Intelligence: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss.
Goss is a good man with what certainly seems like an ample intelligence background, including a decade as a CIA agent. Hard to claim that he isn’t qualified for the post, as it’s equally as hard to knock the President for making this selection when the whole point of all these commissions and committees and such for the past year has been to try and fix the gaping inadequacies of our intelligence apparatus, and with some measure of dispatch given the nature and severity of the threat we face.
But the Democrats just can’t help themselves. They immediately gang-tackled Goss as being a “partisan choice,” which is to say, a Republican President appointed…a Republican! Oh my God! What’s next, the ten plagues of Egypt? Aren’t they satisfied with Norm Mineta, a Clinton holdover, at Transportation making sure that political correctness dominates common sense in the administration of airport security? Or that Bush retained George Tenet, another Clinton holdover and one of the scapegoats of 9/11 and the Iraq/WMD intelligence fiasco, for over three years? Who would they have him select, Sandy Berger?
You know, they probably would. Indeed, just last week Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts actually said that there was “no chance” that Goss would be chosen precisely because the Democrats opposed him. I guess the President is giving them the old “FU” and making a quality choice at the same time.
For my money, I hope the Democrats do try to obstruct the Goss nomination. And I hope John Kerry jumps right in with them. Let them, after having used this entire process to attack and defame and impugn Mr. Bush for supposedly being “asleep at the switch” vis-a-vie 9/11 and Iraq, reflexively turn around and fight his attempt to address and fix what’s broken in the interests of protecting American lives and interests. Let them combust all that phony militaristic pageantry at the Boston Bacchanalia with another uncontrollable fit of Bushophobia.
What’s that old Eastwood line? Ah, yes: “Go ahead…Make my day.”
Goss is a good man with what certainly seems like an ample intelligence background, including a decade as a CIA agent. Hard to claim that he isn’t qualified for the post, as it’s equally as hard to knock the President for making this selection when the whole point of all these commissions and committees and such for the past year has been to try and fix the gaping inadequacies of our intelligence apparatus, and with some measure of dispatch given the nature and severity of the threat we face.
But the Democrats just can’t help themselves. They immediately gang-tackled Goss as being a “partisan choice,” which is to say, a Republican President appointed…a Republican! Oh my God! What’s next, the ten plagues of Egypt? Aren’t they satisfied with Norm Mineta, a Clinton holdover, at Transportation making sure that political correctness dominates common sense in the administration of airport security? Or that Bush retained George Tenet, another Clinton holdover and one of the scapegoats of 9/11 and the Iraq/WMD intelligence fiasco, for over three years? Who would they have him select, Sandy Berger?
You know, they probably would. Indeed, just last week Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts actually said that there was “no chance” that Goss would be chosen precisely because the Democrats opposed him. I guess the President is giving them the old “FU” and making a quality choice at the same time.
For my money, I hope the Democrats do try to obstruct the Goss nomination. And I hope John Kerry jumps right in with them. Let them, after having used this entire process to attack and defame and impugn Mr. Bush for supposedly being “asleep at the switch” vis-a-vie 9/11 and Iraq, reflexively turn around and fight his attempt to address and fix what’s broken in the interests of protecting American lives and interests. Let them combust all that phony militaristic pageantry at the Boston Bacchanalia with another uncontrollable fit of Bushophobia.
What’s that old Eastwood line? Ah, yes: “Go ahead…Make my day.”
posted by JASmius at 12:47 PM
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