Gotta love this...with thousands of actually qualified folks (which probably boils down to tens who actually want the job), Preznit Lucky Sperm awards a job to Crashcart's son-in-law. Not just any job mind you...I mean he could have made him an oyster inspector in Louisiana or a USDA pecan-shell grader in Mississippi, but no, he gave him a job that directly affects something minor, like National Security....

President Bush has nominated the vice president's son-in-law, Philip J. Perry, as general counsel of the Homeland Security Department, where he would oversee 1,500 lawyers who work on legal matters like Coast Guard maritime laws and immigration.

Mr. Perry, who is married to Elizabeth Cheney, is leaving the Washington office of the Latham & Watkins law firm, where he was a partner, as well as a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin, one of the top 10 contractors for the Homeland Security Department.
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Mr. Perry, according to disclosure forms filed last year with the Senate, lobbied the Homeland Security Department and House Homeland Security Committee on behalf of Lockheed Martin as it applied for a government designation that certain of its products were "qualified antiterrorism technologies" and approved for sale. Last year, it was among the first companies to win such a designation.

Lockheed Martin and its partners have won hundreds of millions of dollars worth of commitments in the last two years for products and services it sells, including a contract to train airport security screeners for the Transportation Security Administration.

Kind of like having the Vice Preznit of America having been the president of one of the largest no-bid contractors in Iraq. You know...now, move along. Nothing to see here...

If this doesn't resonate with some of the folks who have voted republican, but are now starting to see their republican party being hijacked by crooks, neo-nazis, liars and opportunists, I don't know what will wake them up. America was once a democracy...but the 1600 Crew are managing to bury that concept a little more each day, with each action like this and others...