HUD Out

So Alphonso Jackson is out at HUD. Another clueless crony of Bush. It turns out that Jackson was a neighbor of Bush back in Dallas and that was apparently his main qualification for the job.
Has there been an administration so riddled with cronies and hacks since Grant?
Did/Does Bush have the slightest interest in actually governing? If he did, one would expect that he would have staffed his administration with more people who could run something.