Julie Myers - More Bush Cronyism
When Michelle Malkin and Maureen Dowd agree on something, it’s worth understanding. The Bush administration is seeking to appoint Julie Myers to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Myers has little customs or law enforcement experience. She worked briefly as chief of staff to Michael Chertoff in the Justice Department; she was an associate under independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr; and she has most recently served as a special assistant to President Bush handling personnel issues. Her uncle is Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the departing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She married Chertoff’s current chief of staff, John F. Wood, on Saturday. (per Washington Post)
Not just Michelle Malkin, but other conservative bloggers have teed off on this.
Captain Ed: Can We Look For Experience Over Expedience?
Malkin: Oh, give me a ^*&%$# break and a half! This nomination is a monumental political and policy blunder in the wake of the Michael Brown/FEMA fiasco. And I can tell you that contrary to the Miss Mary Sunshine White House spokeswoman’s comments, rank-and-file DHS employees and immigration enforcement officials are absolutely livid about Myers’ nomination.
Digger’s Realm: She is woefully under-qualified in my opinion. I’m pretty furious that the Bush administration would take this position, which is suppose to be the head immigration enforcement person in the country, and treat it so lightly as to nominate such an under-qualified person. Is there no one else in America that is more qualified and able to do the job better than Myers?
Hyscience: Cronyism 101: Bush DHS Nominee Doesn’t Deserve The Job - We’ve had enough cronyism from the democratic administrations, and there’s no reason to put up with it from the Bush administration either.
Brainshavings: Myers is a woefully underqualified 35 year old Washington lawyer whose resume reveals scant experience with immigration law … or law enforcement of any kind. If confirmed, this youngster will report to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and she’ll be running the second-largest investigative agency in the federal government.
Debbie Schussel: Being Brunette Barbie: Hurricane Makes Congress See Light on Unqualified Immigration Nominee - I and friends of mine, who are Homeland Security agents both inside and outside ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), have voiced concern and dismay over the President’s nomination of Julie L. Myers (I agree with Ms. Schussel, but someone’s bound to make a crack about “the blonde calling the kettle Barbie.”)
Steven Taylor: Given the fact that former FEMA Director Michael Brown had serious resume problems, and the fact that a high-level ex-OMB official is now in federal custody, one has to wonder about the wisdom of the [myers appointment]. … Not to draw conclusions regarding uncles and husbands, but I have to say, this doesn’t sound good when coupled with resume questions.
Citizen Journal: As much as I sometimes like President Bush, he and his administration are capable of rubbing our collective nose in it, aren’t they? His latest is his appointment of the unqualified Julie Myers to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, under DHS. Her nomination is, as Michelle Malkin puts it, “a joke.” True, true. This is textbook political cronyism. Myers is unqualified…
Right We Are: Fresh off the FEMA fiasco in Louisiana and Mississippi, President George W. Bush is trying to appoint some feather-weight crony to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), thereby demonstrating that the White House a) doesn’t care about the charges of crony-appointments and b) doesn’t care one wit about border control and immigration-law enforcement.
Publius Pundit: Why is he doing this to us? He’s appointing incompetent cronies left and right. Who am I talking about? Not some corrupt Chicago machine pol or some New Orleans lowlife political vermin, but George Bush himself! Apparently, he never learned ANYTHNG from Katrina! Do we really need a Julie Myers, age 36, experienced at writing export control briefs, niece to General Myers (Memo to Bush: look up the Latin root of the word ‘nepotism’), leading the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement? … This makes me sick.
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