Or at least one thing that it means: the former police campaign bodyboard and drinking buddy to Rudy Giuliani, a man who was made NYC commissioner by Rudy seven years later, owes absolutely everything to his patron. Rudy even sent him to train Iraqi cops to be loyal to DC, at which he was a spectacular failure, in one of Giuliani Partner’s lush government contracts. Now, after heavy lobbying by Rudy, Bush has made Kerik minister of homeland security. The color-coded bureaucracy may be many other things, but it is also the biggest pork barrel outside of the Pentagon. So … Continue reading What the Bernie Kerik Nomination Means