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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Ridge Resigns

By Rob on November 30, 2004 at 08:12 am
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WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is resigning, FOX News confirmed Tuesday. He is expected to announce his decision at a 2:45 p.m. EST press conference.

"We thank him for his service, it has been a mammoth undertaking,"said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., upon learning from FOX News of Ridge's decision.


Ridge got a lot of criticism from all over the political spectrum for the way he spent Homeland Defense money, the color code terror warning system and the much-maligned "duct tape" advice given to citizens as a way to protect themselves from chemical attacks.

But overall I think you have to say that Ridge did a good job. Its not easy to take a country our size that was basically asleep on the issue of terrorist attacks and turn it into an alert one. Ridge has gotten that ball rolling, not perfectly mind you, but effectively.

Lets hope his successor can improve on Ridge's start.

Update:

By the way, I'm supporting Joe Lieberman to replace Ridge. And those of you looking for Rudy Giuliani to replace Ridge need to go read Michelle Malkin.

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...overall I think you have to say that Ridge did a good job.

On what possible basis can you make a statement like that?

Don Myers on November 30, 2004 at 03:11 pm
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I’m going to have to agree with Don Myers.  I lived in Pennsylvania while Ridge was governor and I have to say he wasn’t very good at that job either.  He has some good ideas, but his execution is crap.

Andrew on November 30, 2004 at 05:12 pm
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I guess I’m basing my statement on the fact that we haven’t had a major, or even a minor, terrorist attack in this country since 9/11.  Its hard to argue with that.

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