Bernard Kerik is now the third cabinet appointee to get derailed because of the illegal nanny problem.

President Bush readily accepted Bernard B. Kerik’s decision to withdraw his nomination as homeland security secretary after the White House quickly concluded on Friday evening that it would be impossible for him to win confirmation for a post that supervises enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws if he had had immigration problems in his own household, White House officials said on Saturday.

It’s too bad about Bernie. It would have been good for NYC to have him as Homeland Chief. The city really deserves to be getting a bigger slice of the homeland defense pie.

Slightly amused that a man finally got nailed for the nanny problem.

Hiring illegal aliens as nannies is against the law. Not paying social security is also against the law. But, damn. Everybody I know does it. Couldn’t he say that he did it, but didn’t inhale?

Husband and I are discussing nannies right now, during commericials of the Survivior Finale. Husband points out that our whole block runs on the energy of illegal aliens. They cut Sue’s lawn across the street. The contractor, two houses down, employs them to put up drywall and spackle. Bill, next door, owns a pavement company. I’m sure that the guys pouring his tar don’t speak much English.

Yes, hiring illegal aliens is a bigger problem for a Homeland Chief because he’ll be in charge of immigration issues. But considering the work that illegals do in this country, isn’t better to acknowledge it than deny it?

UPDATE: Thanks to my readers, I have going through Josh Marshall’s posts on Kerik. Really good stuff. I read Marshall from time to time, but I’ve got to make it a daily thing. Marshall questions if there was even really a nanny. It seems that Kerik has so many skeletons that a nanny might have been invented to save face.