A Real Job Interview
I enjoy funny things, but I don't find Bill Richardson's job interview commercials amusing.
I think they're demeaning to the office of President and the scientific community is united in that fact.
However, it's his money to spend so let's see how his real job interview would go.
He'd be asked to explain his decision, in 1997, to offer Monica Lewinsky a job on his staff at the United Nations.
He'd be asked why, as Secretary of Energy, he failed to help implement a comprehensive energy policy.
He'd be asked why the Chinese Communists were allowed to steal nuclear secrets on his watch.
He'd be asked if he leaked to the press the name of Wen Ho Lee, suspected of stealing nuclear secrets from Los Alamos and giving them to Communist China.
He'd be asked why he criticizes President Bush for not following the Kyoto agreements, when as a member of the Clinton/Gore administration (that negotiated the protocol) he knows they never submitted it to the Dummycrat controlled Senate for ratification.
Richardson would not get the job for clearly fudging his resume.
posted by King of SNARK at 7:51 AM
1 Comments:
I think this is a bit of an unfair post. and here is why...
1. Cabinet members work for the Executive Branch, meaning they are to follow the directives of the President of the United States. They "serve at the pleasure of the President." Also, we forget that Ms. Lewinsky was a White House intern and was probably qualified for a bureaucratic job in the Energy Department.
2. He did not implement a comprehensive energy policy because he does not have the power to do so. He has the power of regulation and directing resources that were already in place. It is the job of the President and the Congress to implement comprehensive energy policy. If you are going to blame anyone for that blame the former President Clinton.
3. The leaks of nuclear secrets to the Chinese had nothing to do with Richardson. They were a long-standing and wide-ranging plot by the Chinese that had begun long before Richardson became Energy Secretary. It's not like he stood there and talked to some chinese spies and was like... hey, here are some secrets.
4. In regards to Kyoto, Richardson was not even a member of the administration when the treaty was negotiated. In addition, if you recall, it was not submitted to the Senate because it was widely known that it would not get ratified. By making it an executive order Clinton was able to begin to unofficially sign onto it for a time.
11:43 AM
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