Let's frame it: Kerik values=Bush's values

Elisabeth Bumiller - always quite enthusiastic Bush's cheerleader - has an article in today's NY Times titled "In Kerik, Bush Saw Values Critical to Post-9/11 World"
I am sure she was trying to be nice and helpful, and write something positive about this pathological joke of a nomination - it is a syrupy piece. But how she misses the irony of having Kerik and "values" in one sentence is beyond me.
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Also it is so-o-o frustrating how Democrats are failing to push this issue every chance they get.  The thing is about to die without Dems using it to their benefit. Bush picks the guy so dirty that one can scrub him for fifty years and he would still stink...And yet I don't hear Democrats talking about it at all.  They should publicly wonder what are these values Bush saw in Kerik as critical?  His qualifications for the DHS post are also questionable, but values? Lying, cheating, accepting illegal gifts, not paying taxes (at least we can hope he spend this money and, thus, helped our economy - this is a heroic thing to do in Bush's book)
Whichever way you look at it this is Kerik's only qualification and value:

Kerik has always been highly political. After he left as chief of the New York City Department of Corrections in 1999, he was named in a civil lawsuit as the architect of a system to force prison guards to work for Republicans in their off-hours. The suit, by a Democratic warden who claimed he was punished for his political views, claimed that Kerik would "hunt down" anyone deemed "disloyal.

Yep, hunting down anyone disloyal qualifies one as a head of DHS, does it?