Yeah, whatever

Everything you never wanted to know about the man who wanted to be a czar. (And the man who wanted to make that wish come true.)

Bush administration officials say they thoroughly vetted homeland security nominee Bernard Kerik and were surprised to learn that he had concerns about a former domestic employee.

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Thorough...surprise. Isn't that slightly contradictory?

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said officials asked Kerik if he'd had any problems with domestic workers, and Kerik told them he hadn't. Giuliani says Kerik "made a mistake."

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President George W. Bush, leaving a Maryland hospital after his annual physical Saturday, ignored a question about Kerik's withdrawal.

"I owe the president an enormous amount of gratitude for this consideration. I owe him a great apology that this may have caused him and his administration a big distraction," Kerik said in a telephone interview Saturday with The Associated Press from his home in Franklin Lakes, N.J.

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Nothing surprising about any of that anyway.

Another Lloyd Postel story...(the attorney in S.F. in whose offices I once worked)...

One day he was in court on a case where a parking garage attendant, on his lunch break, had taken a customer's fancy new Mercedes for a spin and got in an acccident. Lloyd was still chuckling when he came back at the end of the day reciting the defendant's lawyer's opening statement: Your honor, my client is very, very sorry.