Chertoff's Ch. of Staff's wife gets plum recess appointment in Immigration

[Horse with no Name]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/04/AR2006010401953.html

President Bush yesterday made a raft of controversial recess appointments, including Julie L. Myers to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau at the Department of Homeland Security, in a maneuver circumventing the need for approval by the Senate.

Myers, a niece of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers and the wife of the chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, had been criticized by Republicans and Democrats who charged that she lacked experience in immigration matters.

Myers's nomination faced a bruising and potentially embarrassing fight on the Senate floor, where Democrats were prepared to argue that politics, not merit, drove her selection for an important job preventing terrorists and weapons from entering the country.

Edited for misread. Thank you.

[rodeodance]

1. part of the extended WH family. damn

[wtbymark]

2. another unqualified crony appointment

does this really surprise anyone? I'm sure Jenna's up for a post soon.

[Maat]

3. Well, what do you know?

I'm SO shocked! There's NO cronyism in the Boooosh Administration.

:sarcasm:

[peekaloo]

4. She's married to John Wood who is Chertoff's Chief of Staff.

It's still a bu$hit appointment.....she's the new Brownie.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Unless I am reading it incorrectly

Which is very possible--it says she is Chertoff's wife??

[spindrifter]

11. No--she is not C's wife.

I saw the wedding announcement in the NYT and it is truly his Chief of Staff that Myers is married to.

[peekaloo]

12. here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901930.html

Bu$hspeak can be hard to decipher at times. :-)

:hi:

p.s. I think it's a payback for Daddy's loyalty.

[SoCalDem]

5. Isn't it amazing how SO MANY of these "family members"

conveniently use different last names? Why is she not Julie L. Wood? I know that lots of professional women do keep their maiden names, but boy is it ever convenient when it comes to handing out patronage jobs to family members of the well-placed..

[rodeodance]

6. it is not what you know but who you know!!1

Myers, a niece of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers and the wife of the chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, had been criticized by Republicans and Democrats who charged that she lacked experience in immigration matters.

Myers's nomination faced a bruising and potentially embarrassing fight on the Senate floor, where Democrats were prepared to argue that politics, not merit, drove her selection for an important job preventing terrorists and weapons from entering the country.

[peaches2003]

7. Not Chertoff's wife

Not that it matters because the appt. is still outrageous, but Julie Myers is not Chertoff's wife. She is Chertoff's Chief of Staff's wife (as stated in the WaPo article).

EDIT: Sorry. Posted before seeing that this had already been pointed out in another post.

[Spinzonner]

8. Bad title

it says she's not Chertoff's wife but that of his Chief of Staff

[Crazy Dave]

9. Job experience smearience....

she'll get on the job training and will learn from many mistakes. Like Mike Brown of FEMA, she can then show others how not to run I.C.E.
:sarcasm:

[peanutbrittle]

13. Great now they can continue the cover up for the INS

http://www.mspb.gov/decisions/2005/schneider_at030875i1.html

[peanutbrittle]

15. another link regarding this

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_whistleblower.htm

[nomaco-10]

14. It's their "in your face" way of saying....

f**k you. Cronyism costs the lives of innocent people in NO. Who will ever forget the clip of shitforbrains proclaiming "You're doing a heck of a job, brownie". I don't think we can endure another 3 years of these asshats, not to mention alito sitting on the bench. It's gonna take years to undo all the damage they've done.

[madrchsod]

16. what`s the difference between the baath party and the republicans?

hmmmmm....there isn`t any. what`s the difference between george and saddam?.....hmmmmm...not a whole hell of a lot.