Michelle Malkin: THE MESS AT DHS

Michelle Malkin lets loose on the Department of Homeland Security and the stream of incompetents the Bush administration has put in positions of authority. (Bush putting incompetent people in charge of something? Say it ain't so.) Her focus is on immigration posts, but the pattern she documents there we've already seen at FEMA, also part of DHS, and she links to other of her posts that document the "disasters at the Federal Air Marshals Service."

Putting incompetents in charge results in incompetent policy, such as rewarding immigration service workers according to how many applications they process per day. The faster they shove paperwork through, the more time off they get. Call me stupid, but doesn't that encourage the people to not do their jobs? The less seriously they do their jobs, the more reward they get. In the Bush administration, this is considered good management, I guess.

It makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over that this is the group of bureaucrats charged with coordinating homeland security.