A modest thought on Kerik, bounced off of Snow:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

The John Snow situation, as has been reported, is quite illuminating: seems that the guys from The Street, the ones that they wanted to be "salesmen" for their wacky economic stuff, didn't want anything to do with it. So Mr. Excitement stays. Now Bernie has a "nanny eruption". But, you know, before they announce these guys, they vet them pretty well. Pretty well indeed. All of a sudden, boom. Bernie takes a hike. Another thing that may be in play here is he took a look at DHS, his prospective bosses, the money, the headaches and the doctrine and said, in the finest New Yawk tradition: "Fuck that noise".

You know, before they claimed victory and started hooting about their "man date", replete with accompaniment from the most rabid amongst us, they might have had a shot at some real talent. But hey, Bernie is a fast and loose guy. So are most of the guys from The Street. Fast, loose and talented.

I think they got them a Red State/Blue State problem. All the talent they need is in the Blue States.

Get my drift? If I was really successful and up for a job with these clowns, I wouldn't be interested, beyond a certain amount of egotism. After all, the handwriting about these guys is becoming increasingly clear. Would you really want your name associated with that?

Even Bernie, as hard as that is to believe.