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Old 04-05-2006, 05:55 PM   #11
Tyrone Slothrop
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The word amongst politicos in DC (that I heard from drunken sources while screwed out of my tree at a hotel bar) was that Chertoff is a four star imbecile who will be on hiw way out as soon as it can be done in such a way as to not make it look like a firing for incompetence.
Not that many four-star imbeciles have his credentials. However, this does not mean he's politically savvy enough to run with the Beltway politicos, and he's presiding over a massive clusterfuck of a cabinet department, by all accounts.

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I don't think, from what I've read, Brownie fucked up out of sheer stupidity. He just didn't care and never expected to deal with such a serious issue. He was a guy riding a good resume-building gig, like 9 out of 10 heads of agencies. He just happened to be the unlucky bastard who had a disaster happen on his watch.
Especially unlucky then that he was put in charge of disaster planning and management.
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