Bernard Kerik has withdrawn himself from conisderation for the Homeland Security Secretary Position... just heard it on CNN.

"And the walls come tumbling down"
John Mellankamp

Wonder if he flunked the background test?

lenal
:o

Maybe the son-in-law who worked for "Hustler" didn't pass the smell test with their religious-fanatic base? Or perhaps it was the massive incompetence Kerik displayed in his "training" of Iraqi security forces who later desertedd?

On MSNBC....His family used to have a "non-declared" nanny and this is the official explanation

They should all withdraw....none of them are fit to run whatever departments assigned to them....

Apparently his FBI background check revealed something -- Krooked Kerik didn't even make it to the Senate hearings ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/11/politics...059&partner=AOL

Kerik Pulls Out as Bush Nominee for Homeland Security Job

I think it's probably the Tazer guns he was involved with, and purchasing them for NYPD

Naw...............I think all of you have it wrong...........
His last name too closely resembles that of the man that should have won the Whitehouse. :D

I've been laughing all day over this one. The guy resigns because it seems he had the "nanny" problem, the nonpayment of taxes problem, the recipient of illegal gifts problem, the connection to the mob problem and, finally, the "two ladies who were not Mrs. Kerik" problem. Oops! And you know who was vetting this guy? Dubya's nominee to be Attorney General! Amazing.

I wonder how this affects Rudy Guiliani's chances as a 08 candindate?

Don't you see? That's the whole purpose of this fiasco is to embarrass him politically. Rudy is toast now! The Bushies play hardball!