Obama Nominates Former MBTA Head Beverly Scott To NTSB
 

You have to be effing kidding me..... This is the reward for leading the MBTA down the toilet? Obama continues to prove he is the worst decision maker the country has elected in my lifetime. This is small potatoes compared to his screw ups in the big picture, but locally, it certainly proves the point that he is unethical and unqualified for the office

Afermative action !
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Pure insanity.
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If you expected anything different you're the crazy ones these days. One failure in office putting yet another failure in office. This is what "the people" voted for.
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Lord Help Us.....
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I am no longer an Obama supporter. Not because of this but of so many other things. hope? change? The change he has brought isn't what I was expecting. :huh:
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Really, exactly what would you expect from a "zero-experience" president??

I had been hoping he would prove himself worthy, only he proved he's worthy alright!....worthy of being ridden out of town, hell...out of the COUNTRY on a rail!!!

He make Ford, Carter and Bush, Jr. all look like an Einstein by comparison.

Ironic that you would choose those formers for comparison,they were all politicians. This country was never as happy and united as when an actor was our leader. Patriotism was at an all time high,now we have the greatest divide I remember.
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Similar to the Brockton school superintendent getting "fired" then hired by Deval as MA Sec of Education :(

also par for the course

Her resume is quite impressive.

I'm sure she will do an excellent job.....LMAO..... adminisration just a bunch of:morons:

What a great promotion for fracking up the MBTA.....Spence must have ment that as dry humor:)

LOL Nebe, I'll believe it when I see you posting " it's all Obamas fault" a few times a day for at least the next 6 years." :)

Hmmmm.
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I can't wait until they start naming schools and airports after him :hihi:

LOL. Where in Iran and Russia ?

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So was Obama's - oh, wait.

You don't think some groups are just itching to start naming public buildings after the first black US President?

She does have an impressive resume. One challenge I think with issues like this is that the best candidates might not have a perfect past, but they do have the right experience. You see it all the time in business. How many CEO's have run failing companies at one time or another?

I just felt the need to quote this for posterity.... No opportunity to edit or delete.... Months after being forced out of her job she is on a list of best candidates????? Go back and get a better list! How quickly we forget that the contract to set up the Obamacare website was "awarded" to a friend of the first lady...... I guess she must have been on the list of best candidates too, even though she had never produced anything close to what was required.....

I think the nomination is based on her full experience and not just a recent failure, though I'm sure the issues at the MBTA will be a focus of her vetting by the Commerce Committee. She certainly has the experience to get consideration.

Let me cut to the chase and say what no one else is saying.. Did Obama nominate her because she is black ? To add to this, would she have been nominated IF SHE WASNT BLACK?

We have this and now they want to award Pell grants to people in jail... What about a hard working person who is responsible who won't get a pell grant because the limited funds went to someone in prison?
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Oh great so nobody of color can get a job without it being a race thing???

I think it's more influential that she's female.

I don't believe the Pell pilot program takes any money away from non-prisoners, it's a small pilot that's funded separately.

It could be a great idea by the way. Studies have shown that for every dollar of educational investment in prisons taxpayers save 5 in return.

America. The land where all is given to those who make bad decisions and those who are responsible have to pay for them.
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I just fell out of my chair welcome to the formerly silent majority who are tired of seeing Abuses of taxpayer dollars based on being PC.

As far as Scott goes. This job is a gift. She failed miserably while increasing expenditures at the MB TA. She doubled the number of jobs over 100,000 she spent tons of money on travel "for the job". Her job in Atlanta? No real verdict on that one she did consolidate spending there but who leaves a job that is close to 350,000 in a temperate climate to move to Boston for a significant pay cut? She said she would not be seeking a new contract with MARTA but maybe that was a deal to unload her
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For an artist, Nebe is really starting to show signs of reality.

Meanwhile, I suggest Jeff keep the paddles nearby as his pulse could be in jeapordy.
Good Luck to both kindred spirits.
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She doesn't even know how to shovel a #^&#^&#^&#^&-ing path to her mailbox.....WTF
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Where is Michael Brown when you need him
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Kenya
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No, if they could have found a Farsi Speaking Latino Gender Curious Pacific Islander Female, she would have gotten the job instead.

Government is no longer about finding the right person to do the job semi-efficiently - regardless of gender / ethnicity - and to make proper decisions and help people - regardless of gender / ethnicity. There are plenty of women and men of many races more capable to put in these positions, but they are not bureaucratic political HACKS of the party in power.

Government's job is now to spread diversity and happy feeling. Sadly that is not what happens these days. The adults have left the room and they people that couldn't make it academia are now running the ship and can't navigate. We are arguably at the greatest national apathy in 40 years and we get HACKS.

We need the adults back - gender / race does not and should not matter. Best people for the roles. But that is not a progressive mantra. Meritocracy has no merit. To them it smacks of privilege though to the rest of us it smells like academia.

So we vote for these clowns, put them in power, and they bring in the ass kissing self-licking-ice-cream-cones and voila! Presto-frickin-changeo - things suck more.

Obama was not qualified to be POTUS and six plus into his eight years in office he has proven that time and time again.

But people voted for him because HOPE.

With Scott's resume? Yes, absolutely.

I think this is a product of influence. Those with the money don't want free thinking people in politics as they're harder to control.

I assume this was a reference to the neocons?

I think he's been as or more qualified than many Presidents. He's also surrounded himself with some very experienced people. Given what he inherited I don't think anyone would have done exceptionally well.

Funny, I remember after 9/11 remarking how lucky we were that Bush had the foreign policy dream team, and look how that worked out.

the fortunate thing is that there IS another election and we can't do much worse than what we've been treated to for the last couple...

I keep telling you, we need to demand better from both parties. Neither party does what is needed, one just strips our national security away in favor of hugs.

And the other strips our kids future away to keep the rich rich.
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How so?

And by the way, they are both doing it as the nation spends a TRILLION dollars more per year than it takes in. That will strip your kid and my kids future faster than any rich rich.

One way is by tax cuts to the rich, incredibly lax corporate tax rules and putting the heft of taxes on the middle class. Isn't that the GOP's mandate?
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Kind of odd that Ted Cruz just led the charge on not funding the import/export bank(evil corporate welfare) . Those most highly opposed were the left. Why is it Bilary has accepted more donations from Big business and Wall Street than any other candidate.
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Simple. She's a republican.
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Maybe Cruz is a democrat
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Define "Much".....