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From the "You're doin' a heck of a job Mikey"
NHTSA Chief Can't Install Child Seat

As reported in the Kicking Tires blog, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Nicole Nason, recently disclosed that she took a three-day course in installing a child seat in July. Upon taking the class, she found out that .

I don't know what's the most screwed up thing here. (1) That a person who can't install a child seat would be appointed to head NHTSA; (2) That the head of the agency that regulates child seats wouldn't find out she didn't know beans about them until 16 months into the job; or (3) That anyone would take (or need) a three-day class in installing child safety seats.

Oh yes, this is the George W. Bush administration, where the quality needed to be the attorney general is to generally be an attorney; where the secretary of education gets slaughtered in Celebrity Jeopardy; where the head of FEMA is appointed without knowing anything about disaster management; and where your swears-like-a-sailor Vice-president can't tell a lawyer from a gamebird.

http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2007/09/head-of-nhtsa-i.html