Aside from the obvious answers related to tenure, what does prevent the filling of such positions? Does it even get past the basic question of WTH you’re going to do after a year or is the focal point WTH you can get done in a year? Anyone who works/ed for our Uncle who tried to get something done on a Thursday afternoon at the start of three day weekend knows the drill: mission-shmission I’m headed to the shore.
From another angle; is the absence of occupants a sign that there is a shortage of takers, or an indication that, of all the glory-jobs that have gone to questionable characters, these are two slots that are off-limits to such practice?
What might I be missing … again, beyond the obvious?
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Perhaps they should simply make it a One-Star or Colonel billet and assign the job.
Then it doesn’t depend on who is the President - and their tenure will be the length of their tour.
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March 19, 2008 2:13 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 14:13
With Bush’s popularity ratings he’s essentially already a lame duck, and one saddled with possibly-illegal homeland security policies opposed by Congress to boot. Who on earth would want to put themselves in that position?
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March 19, 2008 7:58 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 19:58
Jeff: Appointees serve at the pleasure of the old man, so there is no such thing as a normal tour, military or not. Besides, would you want someone like Paul R. in a gig like that? ;-)
Adrian: No one is going to jail for nat-sec or HLS decisions made in the last seven years. If it was possible (in a political sense) it would have happened by now (that town in Vermont’s “indictment” notwithstanding).
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March 19, 2008 8:14 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 20:14
My theory is that this administration seems to end up micromanaging and overruling subordinates and that no one wants to take a job where they won’t have much independence.
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March 19, 2008 11:06 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 23:06