The 'Error of Responsibility'

Rick Saunders
from America's Right

Given the stunningly clueless vetting of cabinet and other selections thus far made by the president for, among others, Secretary of the Treasury (Timothy Geithner), Secretary of Health and Human Services (Tom Daschle), Secretary of Commerce (Bill Richardson), and the nation’s first "Chief Performance Officer" (Nancy Killifer, in a role which leaves me wondering why we need another government employee to eradicate redundancy), even the propagandists at Pravda on the Hudson (a.k.a. The New York Times) must be scratching their liberal heads and quietly wondering amongst themselves: "what the heck is going on here?" Is this "change," or is it more like a bad parody of the Keystone Kops?

Of course, the "heck" going on here--and the common theme joining all of these folks in a very sticky thread--is the fact that all of them knew or should have known of either the "cronyism/pay-to-play" skeleton in the closet, as with Richardson, or the "tax-man" skeleton in the basement, as with all the others, long before accepting the nomination of the president to serve in any particular official capacity. And yet each, with or without the knowledge of the new president, arrogantly pushed forward in the expectation that nothing could derail their candidacies. They were, after all, chosen by the Chosen One himself.
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