So much that is wrong about the Bush Administration is highlighted in the following note written by Crooks & Liars' Jon Perr:
10 days ago, the Obama transition team notified about 90 of the Pentagon's 250 Bush political appointees that their services would no longer be needed after Inauguration Day. But despite DoD spokesman Geoff Morrell's declaration that holdover Republican Defense Secretary Robert Gates was "absolutely satisfied" with way the transition was being handled, one loyal Bushie at the Pentagon was anything but. Jim O'Beirne - the same Jim O'Beirne who famously populated the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad with Republican campaign hacks and Bush bath-water drinkers - is crying foul.
Really -- of all the people who should just be quiet and disappear into the retired Republican hack ether, Jim O'Beirne is near the top of the list.
O'Beirne's mismanagement of the hiring during the initial stages of the Iraq reconstruction helped to create the horrible situation there. His insistence on hiring people loyal to George W. Bush over people who, um, actually had experience in rebuilding a country following a war is unforgivable.
Frankly, the fact that O'Beirne still has a job in the government after all of these years is a huge scandal.
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