Has Anyone Ever Been Fired from the Bush Administration for Incompetence?

[Montagnard]

No one comes to my mind and there has been plenty of gross incompetence over the last five years. It looks like the only ones being fired are those who were right. For a bunch who like to tell us that the private market is the best way to run things it seems they were asleep during any management classes.

Can you think of anyone who was fired for being wrong, or incompetent?


I would think that the person or persons who purchased the trailers and stored them in a swamp in Arkansas might be a good candidate. Not the only one, there are hundreds and hundreds that are evidently major FUps.

[rustydog]

1. No, there have been those fired for competence

and others threatened with termination if they displayed their competence.

[RagingInMiami]

2. Only promoted

[Theres-a]

4. Right,and I believe they get a medal,also.

Bastards.

[raccoon]

21. Like Condi. nt

[BlueEyedSon]

3. No, only for disloyalty. nt

[unblock]

9. disloyalty IS incompetence.

the job IS to be loyal and spout the party line.

ergo, disloyalty is incompetence.


only democrats hire people to be competent.

[BlueEyedSon]

15. Hey, don't YOU start with that repub-speak!

[MadMaddie]

5. I don't think anyone has ever been fired....

Brownie resigned.
Ashcroft resigned..
Christine Todd Whitman resigned....

But I thinkit's a big fat no to "Has anyone incompetent ever been fired"!!

All of the serious career people have been pushed out due to telling the truth, performing the requirements of their jobs or not being Republican Hacks!!

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. To be fair, Whitman was resigned for actually taking her job

seriously. When appointed, she didn't realize she was there to gut the EPA.

[MadMaddie]

26. You are correct....She did try to perform the job requirementments

And now she might be getting hammered because of the clean air reports that whe was forced to put out right after 9/11.

[savemefromdumbya]

6. They just kill them or threaten them

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I don't recall anyone being fired for incompetence. Most of

the people who leave want to "spend more time with family". Of course, if you are incompetent enough, you can get a Medal of Freedom. Maybe they compete with each other for the lowest level of competence to see who gets the next medal.

[rucky]

8. Ambitious Hill Rats are actually adding a section to their resume...

listing their incompetent achievements.

[librechik]

10. only the actually competent people like Oneil and Lindsay and

the general who said we'd need 400,000 troops to succeed in Iraq.

[txindy]

11. They leave to "spend more time with their families."

But that's only if they've displeased the cabal, not the public. If the latter, they get the Medal of Freedom.

[Ksec]

12. He give Medals of Freedom for incompetence.

Success is something theyre not familar with.

[rustydog]

13. So does Cheny get a Medal of freedom for shooting a lawyer?

[ThomWV]

14. Hmmmm ..... Tenet? Powell?

Incompetence ............ or what?

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. It just shows that they are real bible believers.

None of them can throw the first stone.

[dusmcj]

18. how would they know which one of them was incompetent ? nt

[grytpype]

19. Two people I can think of.

Brownie.

And some lady bureaucrat who issued visas to some of the 9/11 hijackers after the attack. They were in the pipeline and they just came out... she got fired.

That's it.

[salin]

22. Also the economic advisor who said that it would cost 200 billion

to go to war with Iraq; and the former head of the FEC ... okay he resigned under huge pressure.

[salin]

23. never mind

the first wasn't incompetence, and the latter - while incompetent, appeared to be doing bushco bidding but committed the sin of not being opaque enough (so that the public realized it was bushco intention not to really get engaged in corporate finance/disclosure reform.)

[Rob H.]

20. Hell, Rumsfeld's one of the biggest bumbling nitwits

in the entire administration and Bush won't even let him resign--and he's tried to resign twice that we know of! Let him go, George! :mad:

[foreverdem]

24. They fail upwards

Screw up, you get a medal,
Show some kind of competency, take a hike.

[applegrove]

25. It's called the MEDAL of HONOR!