When you put many government organizations together you get a lot more ‘oversight’ but due to internal fingerpointing accountability drops. Happened when the DNI spot was created, too.

Small and accountable organizations are required for good government. Keep them few and you have wonderful scrutiny. Make them large, and you get bureaucrats, middle-men, and far too many layers between the top and those doing the actual work… we do the exact opposite of what is required for accountability and then complain about it. Yet if Napolitano were in that spot in a Republican administration and put out something like that for the Left, she would be *gone* by now. If you make such large organizations, then accountability starts at the TOP not the middle, and for every problem, the TOP must go. Gives those at the top an interst in their job and makes sure that things don’t get out of hand.

Asking for anything else is support of incompetent, partisan and corrupt government. Often all three at the same time as we see in the Fed and Treasury.

Napolitano Barack Obama should get held accountable for this shameful episode by Congress America, and he should resign for allowing this to happen.

FIFY.

It was sarcasm, of course. It makes me furious that this administration could start this kind of crap, again.

Maybe lock-step GOPers are threatened by Glenn Beck because he holds them accountable just like he holds DemoNAZIs accountable.

nelsonknows on April 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM

I’m not a lock-step GOPer and I don’t find Beck threatening. I just have never particularly cared for his style.

It’s like Obarfy is playing this bizarre game, where he picks the exact opposite of what you would want in a cabinet secretary.
fogw on April 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM

It’s all part of the plan.

maryo on April 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM

Not to worry …… Panetta’s running the CIA.

It’s like Obarfy is playing this bizarre game, where he picks the exact opposite of what you would want in a cabinet secretary.

President Constanza.

1. You MUST have breath that smells like the outhouse door on a tuna boat.

2. You MUST have a bowl haircut and have legs like tree stumps.

3. You MUST be batsh*t crazy and believe that American citizens are the enemy.

4. You MUST believe that the U.S. Constitution makes nice toilet paper.

5. You MUST follow the Nazi Party Platform written by Adolf Hitler.

WOW, is Janeane Gerobuffalo next to be nominated for O’bunghole’s cabinet? She fits ALL of the above criteria.

Not every conservative is a Glenn Beck fan. Do you buy into the theory that AIDS was created by white scientists to wipe out darker peoples? A lot of your compadres do. How about that Chomskyite “Corporate Media” thing? “Corporations are ruling all our lives!!!!”

Seriously…are you guys insane?

ddrintn on April 27, 2009 at 5:10 PM

Not every “Conservative” that claims to be a conservative is an actual conservative. I just don’t see any link between Glen Beck, who can actually READ the Constitution and believes it should be protected, and Alex Jones/Ron Paul fruitcakes who are nothing but frauds and can’t actually READ the Constitution.
Maybe lock-step GOPers are threatened by Glenn Beck because he holds them accountable just like he holds DemoNAZIs accountable.

Rightwingers are tricky that way, aren’t they? Just goes to show that we need to be on our guard against all Protestant ministers, ’cause they’ll obviously try to fool ya.

JM Hanes on April 27, 2009 at 5:15 PM

they can’t fool me. I know what they want. they’d like me to follow the golden rule and such but, I’m weak. When it comes to left wing trolls. Just can’t help meself.

Of course, if the Globe is where you get your news, you’d have no idea what the reporter is talking about. Your hometown paper, in Boston no less, didn’t print a word on your hometown tea party.

oldernwiser:

“Just for sh!ts and grins, most clergy I’ve ever talked to struck me as being on the liberal side of the spectrum”

Rightwingers are tricky that way, aren’t they? Just goes to show that we need to be on our guard against all Protestant ministers, ’cause they’ll obviously try to fool ya.

Seriously……are you guys insane?
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strangelet on April 27, 2009 at 3:41 PM

Not every conservative is a Glenn Beck fan. Do you buy into the theory that AIDS was created by white scientists to wipe out darker peoples? A lot of your compadres do. How about that Chomskyite “Corporate Media” thing? “Corporations are ruling all our lives!!!!”

Seriously…are you guys insane?

“Seriously……are you guys insane?”

Seriously….do you really expect folks posting at HotAir to defend every lunatic who posts elsewhere? Kinda crazy to assume that everyone around here subscribes to a conspiracy theory posted on a comment thread on another site that you’re the one who is reading.

Looks like we should all be keeping a close eye on Protestant ministers! They’ve obviously proven to be uniquely susceptible to extremist indocrtrination, and they’re uniquely attractive to violent anti-abortion radicals. Congregations everywhere should regard any pastoral display of right-wing sympathies with alarm.

JM Hanes on April 27, 2009 at 4:56 PM

Just for sh!ts and grins, most clergy I’ve ever talked to struck me as being on the liberal side of the spectrum (apart from of course being “religious nuts”/sarc)
They are branded (to borrow from your post) as right winig only because they are religious, if you pay attention to what they’d like to see in society, it most always is left leaning

So the Beatles should be held accountable for Helter Skelter?

Badger40 on April 27, 2009 at 2:20 PM

There is no way, no way! Strangelet will get this reference!

stranglet:

“Do you think the GOP can survive that kind of branding?”

So, do you think vets can survive that sort of branding? If they make the list, it must be their own damn fault, right?

“Are you denying Tim McVeigh was a vet?”

I deny that any and every anti-government bomber or gun-crazed killer is, by definition, a right winger. I deny that their psychosis is the logical extreme of typical right wing thinking, but alas, I get no say in the branding.

“Protestant minister and right-to-life murderer that killed a doctor.”

Looks like we should all be keeping a close eye on Protestant ministers! They’ve obviously proven to be uniquely susceptible to extremist indocrtrination, and they’re uniquely attractive to violent anti-abortion radicals. Congregations everywhere should regard any pastoral display of right-wing sympathies with alarm.

That was you guys, that got it stripped out, along with the planned parenthood thing that made you so nuts.
Nice job.

strangelet on April 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM

When you wake up,and get back to the real world from the Emerald city,No, that actually was what “you guys” keep screaming you want. A bipartisan effort.

Yeah…..she can be on right after The Glenn Beck and Alex Jones Crackpot Conspiracy Comedy Hour.

strangelet on April 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM

Would that be before or after the Keith Olberwoman sells the U.S. to the enemy hour and before the Chris Matthews masturbates on camera to photos of O’bunghole hour?
I noticed you didn’t care to address any FACTS or bother to look at the FBI Most Wanted List I posted.

She needs to be on TV every night on all the networks as a spokesman for the Obamanation!!!

sabbott on April 27, 2009 at 3:25 PM

Yeah…..she can be on right after The Glenn Beck and Alex Jones Crackpot Conspiracy Comedy Hour.

Check out the FBI Domestic Terrorism list:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/dt/fug_dt.htm

Two Black Liberation Army member that bunked with Jeremiah Wright in the early 70′s.
Four members of ALF/ELF.
Four Communist radicals.
Are there ANY right-wing extremeinsts on that list? NO.
Is the FBI even LOOKING for a right-wing domestic terrorist?
NO!
Is the Obama Administration lying about firearms crossing south to Mexico? YES.
Do leftists in Congress plan to ban firearms and violate the 2nd Amendment, YES.
How many times have the Democrats in Congress and O’bunghole violated the Constitution since 20 January 2009? At LEAST 26 times including violations of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th Amendments and 6 articles of the Constitution, multiple times. (Seizing the census violates Article 1, section 2, clause 3)

oldernwiser on April 27, 2009 at 4:28 PM

so?
That was you guys, that got it stripped out, along with the planned parenthood thing that made you so nuts.
Nice job.