Showing posts with label The Silhouettes. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Get a Job, Sha na na na, Sha na na na na na

On the whole refugee matter discussed in the previous post, it should be noted that the US official in charge, Ellen Sauerbrey, is another recess appointee with as much experience in dealing with refugees as any of us, unless we actually have any readers with any experience whatsoever, in which case she's less qualified than them. From Steve Benen (guest hosting at Political Animal), though usually from the Carpetbagger Report:
As it happens, the crisis is for the desk of Ellen Sauerbrey, the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration. Sauerbrey, of course, was given the job despite literally no background in responding to refugee crises, setting up camps, delivering emergency supplies, and/or mobilizing international responses to humanitarian crises. Her only "qualification" for the job seemed to be that she was a Republican activist looking for a job in the administration. (Sauerbrey is a former member of the Republican National Committee and was Bush's Maryland state campaign chairwoman in 2000.)

Heckuva job, redux. Actually, let's just quote Apocalypse Now and leave it as the default response until further notice:

Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
 

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