Haven't we seen this (disaster) movie before?

posted by The Vidiot @ 5:03 PM Permalink

Former White House staffer named to head DHS policy committee
The department announced that a 28-year-old former White House staffer is heading a policy committee that gathers expert advice -- on behalf of the president and the Homeland Security secretary -- on key areas of homeland security, including threats to infrastructure and preventing terrorist attacks that use weapons of mass destruction.
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Hoelscher has no management experience[...] He came to government in 2001 as a low-level White House staffer, arranging presidential travel
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In 2004, Hoelscher worked for the RNC. [...] During Katrina, he helped deploy volunteers from the department to the Gulf Coast, she said. The congressional report on Katrina noted that some of those employees had trouble making it to the region because of departmental miscommunications.

A guy in charge of Presidential travel can't arrange a trip to the Gulf Coast!?

One congressional staffer defended the appointment[...] "There's plenty of adult supervision" at the department.

Wow! Talk about damned with faint praise!
Bushco has more hacks than a Microsoft security update.

Controversial political appointments at the department include Michael Brown, the former FEMA director, who was a longtime friend of Bush's 2000 campaign director, Joe Allbaugh; Julie Myers, who's married to Chertoff's chief of staff and heads the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau despite lacking law enforcement credentials; and Eduardo Aguirre Jr., a career Texas banker with Bush family ties, who was director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

And the list goes on, ad nauseum.