Wouldn't you know Congress would be concerned about someone that the President chose. Congress needs to concern themselves with Social Security Reform before poking their nose into this. How about getting busy with Soc Sec Reform??? Or would that make too big of a difference and be too much trouble?...

You presume that important policy decisions are the priority of the Democratic party.

They are not - scoring political points is the only thing that matters to them.

Ken, I presume the Democratic party's only important policy is to attack the President every chance they get. I also presume the Dems have no intention of bothering with Soc.Sec. or anything else that might be worthy.

So why didn't we hear these cries of fear and rage when the Pentagon took over the State Department?

You DO remember General Colin Powell, yes?

Mr. Michael...Because they are commie Socialists?

Pelosi and the democrats would recommend John Kerry for this position. Afterall, we never found out how he got all his purple hearts, other than the one for shooting himself in the ass. We never were allowed to see his military records that he said he released to the public. Kerry sure knows how to keep things a secret, so I suppose he's the man. He has also been a covert agent, served in the military while working for a radical 60's peace organization.

Dammit, where's the doggie pictures?

EB...Kerry must have something to hide. What could it be? Something is wrong with his service records or he would have released them. You don't suppose he had a dishonorable discharge???

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I am guessing his discharge was other than Honorable.
He claims he made a full public disclosure of his records. Someone correct me if I am wrong, I think he released his records only to The Boston Globe and the Globe did not disclose all his info.

As an insider, I can tell you that shaking up the intel community is a GREAT thing. I agree, just pick the best person for the job. If they suck at it, fire him. Jeez.

Seriously.

Let's see...

IQ: Pelosi, Kennedy et al or any general
OK - we know the answer to that one.

Let's try integrity:Pelosi, Kennedy et al OR any general.

Darn, another easy shot.

Ah, trustworthyness: Oh never mind.

I just cannot find anything of value that virtualy ANYBODY in the military would not outdo in competition with the above mentioned fuzzy types.

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Under Gen. Hayden the NSA has forced tecom companies to implement domestic spying hardware.The NarusInsight is one type of domestic spying hardware.Capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.For reference thats 39000 DSL lines in realtime. After data capture Narus can replay data. Think of it as Tivo for the internet for 39000 DSL users. They talk about limits hardware like this is anything but.
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