From Andrew Quinn's IndyPundit Daily

This morning started like all others seem to, as of late. I got up, stumbled to my computer, fired it up, and started checking headlines. But this peacefulness was not to last...

Alas! Any calm or tranquility was shattered upon logging onto the BBC News page and seeing this: Bush appoints new CIA director. Aieee!

Dare I click this, I thought. Do I really want to know who the latest cronie to join the ranks will be? But, then, that ever-shrinking side of hope, that slim-and-growing-slimmer facet of optimisim within me, chose to rear its falsely attractive head. You don't know that, it purred. Bush might want to use this appointment to woo the moderates. It could be someone decent... And I gave in, like I often do, and allowed myself to entertain that hope, the mere possibility that one of the most important appointments in my lifetime could be somebody other than a right-wing extremist, or at least, someone who could stand up to Bushie.

So I click the article. And when the new page comes up, my hopes slide away. Just like every time I allow Bush-involved news to build them up, they were dashed as I see that the President appointed a congressman. Not John McLaughlin, the post-Tenet interim who has at least some experience in the post. It wasn't even a moderate Republican - my dreams of maverick, strong-willed, and all around good guy John McCain somehow being appointed to a high-level post are unsurprisingly set to remain just dreams. The apointee is a House member, whose represented state's indentity is indeed a cruel twist of irony: Florida. Ah well, at least it isn't Katherine Harris. It's Porter Goss. It could be worse, but they'd have to work overtime.

Goss is just all-around unlikable --politically-- to me. He wants to cut the rich peoples' taxes, spend on the Army but not on missile defense, promote prayer in public schools, and banning gay people from adopting children. I already hate his homophobic guts. However, we should probably take a closer look at his stances as they relate to what will most likely be his new job (barring a coup in the Senate). He, as Bush says in his soundbyte explaining his puzzling choice, does have a few years in the CIA, as well as some time on an Intelligence Committee post. These mediocre qualifications aside, I see no real evidence that the man is fit for the job moreso than any Senator who has served on an intel board, or any well-experienced intelligence operative.

Hey, I don't like the guy whatsoever, but let's hope that he is more qualified for the post than he seems - for our safety.