Shocking News; The Senate is Doing It's Job

After years of just rubber stamping Bush appointees, the Senate is suddenly interested in determining if those Bush is nominating are qualified for the job.

The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration advocates and homeland security experts.

The push to appoint Julie Myers to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, comes in the midst of intense debate over the qualifications of department political appointees involved in the sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina.

It is just a shame that it took hundreds of deaths and a disaster costing us hundreds of billions of dollars for them to realize that the advise and consent part of their job was kinda important.