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The problem there is if you want to give direction to the bureaucracy to stop doing certain things or to start doing new things, you've got to have that neck in place to transfer the signals from the brain -- the president and the cabinet -- down to the career layer and the body.

The departments and agencies will not accept you or embrace you until they're told that, in fact, there is a president-elect. So nothing can be done right now formally, and very little can be done informally by way of getting information about what agencies are or are not doing.

They've already surpassed their available resources. That's a warning sign that $2 billion figure is going to be hard to reach, ... It is not like Sept. 11, in the sense that there's this great reservoir of continued support.

You can go through it and select the position and the title that you might like to have, like the associate deputy under secretary of interior.

If you don't believe what the president believes or more generally what the White House believes, you're not going to get a second look and that narrows the pool to a very small number of people,

I think that is starting to show here now in jobs where the administration would like to have some quality and would like to have some expertise.

You go to the FBI where they investigate the answers to your forms, there are only so many FBI agents available to do that. Then you go to the office of government ethics, where they clear your financial disclosure and cure any conflicts of interest you might have,

Then you go up to Capitol Hill for Senate confirmation. All of these choke points can only handle so many names at a time.

If you were a Democrat, you'd probably get hammered for it. There's an irony there. You've got a Republican president overseeing the creation of a large, new department. But I don't think he'll get criticized for it.

The real trick he faces is that this is a different war than any we've ever faced, and domestic concerns are clearly rising.

There are a number of offices where you just can't afford a steep learning curve and you need somebody who is able to move quickly and make sharp policy decisions.

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Our research shows that Americans are over-confident in the ability of government to respond. But there are many highly probable scenarios that involve an almost complete breakdown of social order. Katrina showed us that all those structures we depend on can be swept away.

Our research shows that Americans are over-confident in the ability of government to respond.

A lot of governments are woefully ill-prepared. If you haven't been contacted by your local government about disaster plans, that's a good sign your government isn't ready.

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