No doubt the ever judicious and ice cream eating Sen Orin Hatch is perturbed that Doan violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits using government resources for political means.

NOT!!

What a loser!!

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Is this such a new story: Katherine Harris in 2000 and J. Kenneth Blackwell in 2004 were both Bush campaign managers. From Rove's point of view, poltization of public office has always been what is required to win.

Straightforward and repeated Hatch Act violations. The penalties for Agency staff are prescribed and clear. Now I'd like to (laugh) see the Office for Government Ethics (USOGE.GOV) mete out sanctions. Only, for most of the Bush Administration this office has been without a leader.

It's less straighforward for Rove and White House staff. They have limitations on what government assets they may use, but their time, like it or not, can be spent doing these sort of briefings.

Just not on government property. With other government employees.

Have the career employees been so bullied they just can no longer speak out?

I feel sorry for Justin - that pretty much kills his career at ABC/Disney

See we are a party of giving, Here we give Tom Delay a job that needs no re-training.
"The entire Federal Government will need roach spray come the next Administration."

Scott Bloch may very well have his finger in the air, so he knows that if he wants to maintain any future credibility he better get on the bandwagon.

I watched Lurita Doan's entire testimony last week and frankly, I was shocked. Now I am not a doctor but I'm pretty sure this poor woman is quite severely disabled and suffers from advanced retrograde amnesia -- possibly the result of head trauma. In medical parlance, she was not oriented to person, place or date. She clearly had no idea she was testifying before Congress. And the committee - quite unreasonably I might add - expected her to provide verbal, on-the-spot answers to actual questions about what she did at work and over her lunch hour - things far beyond her ability to comprehend.

It is a real testiment to mainstreaming that this woman is able to hold the position she does - and the committee members should be ashamed of themselves for mocking the severely disabled.

Welcome to the new world order.

Insightful comments from Earl of Huntington (yellow line or blue?).

Coupled with the marginalization of existing career employees in the Federal government is the installation of new ones using arcane preferences embedded in the system.

Did you know that if you serve for three years as an appointee at the White House, you can more easily get a career job? Or if you serve one year as a Schedule C at an Agency?

The Bushies know this, and they're starting to pack the ranks. The practice is informally known as "burrowing in" but with the waves of retirements and the bullied lot that are leaving, the government will still be a scary place regardless of who takes the helm on 01-21-09

I doubt she was supposed to testify today. Congress is in it's Easter recess or "spring break" as the Little Prince called it.

"Also on Thursday, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations subcommittee, postponed indefinitely a hearing on the fiscal year 2008 DOJ budget in response to the U.S. attorney controversy.

“As Chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that funds the agency, I believe it would be very difficult in this environment to give the Department’s budget request the attention it deserves until the Senate has examined the Department’s leadership failures,” she said in a release.
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WHOAH HO! Someone just lost their budget baby! bang.

from here:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/leahy-wants-answers-from-gonzales-before-hearing-2007-04-05.html
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HMMMMMmmmmm... This is strange.

I cut and past the following pdf text (two times) from Waxman's official government web page to this site and the text does not appear the same. Notice the "yow" in the first sentence here yet on the original site it appropriately views as "your". Could this happen in other key text?

Now, I know I misspell and my grammar aint as perfect as dubya's, but you would think cut and past would not change the text.

So, be aware when posting... You don't want to miss-state something that you've simply transferred.

second cut and past below... same result.
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The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requests yow appearance at a
deposition on Thursday, April 5,2007, at 10:00 a.m., in 2157 Rayburn House Offrce
Building. This deposition is part of an investigation the Committee commenced last spring
regarding lobbying contacts between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House.

i'm reminded of john diiulio, the first bush administration official to shed a bit of light on the all-politics-all-the-time and policy-be-damned approach of the bush/rove white house. from ron suskind's january 2003 esquire article:

President George W. Bush called John DiIulio "one of the most influential social entrepreneurs in America" when he appointed the University of Pennsylvania professor, author, historian, and domestic-affairs expert to head the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He was the Bush administration’s big brain, controversial but deeply respected by Republicans and Democrats, academicians and policy players. The appointment was rightfully hailed: DiIulio provided gravity to national policy debates and launched the most innovative of President Bush’s campaign ideas—the faith-based initiative, which he managed until this past February, the last four months from Philadelphia.

"There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus," says DiIulio. "What you’ve got is everything—and I mean everything—being run by the political arm. It’s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."

In a seven-page letter sent a few weeks after our first conversation, DiIulio, who still considers himself a passionate supporter of the president, offers a detailed account and critique of the time he spent in the Bush White House.

"I heard many, many staff discussions but not three meaningful, substantive policy discussions," he writes. "There were no actual policy white papers on domestic issues. There were, truth be told, only a couple of people in the West Wing who worried at all about policy substance and analysis, and they were even more overworked than the stereotypical nonstop, twenty-hour-a-day White House staff. Every modern presidency moves on the fly, but on social policy and related issues, the lack of even basic policy knowledge, and the only casual interest in knowing more, was somewhat breathtaking: discussions by fairly senior people who meant Medicaid but were talking Medicare; near-instant shifts from discussing any actual policy pros and cons to discussing political communications, media strategy, et cetera. Even quite junior staff would sometimes hear quite senior staff pooh-pooh any need to dig deeper for pertinent information on a given issue."

Like David Stockman, the whip-smart budget director to Ronald Reagan who twenty years ago revealed that Reagan’s budget numbers didn’t add up, DiIulio is this administration’s first credible, independent witness—a sovereign who supports his president but must, nonetheless, speak his mind.

When I think of Rove, I think 3 words: permanent republican majority. Everything he says and does then falls into perspective.

"Does Rove, Bush or Cheney represent less of a danger to the US than did John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King?"

Rove, Cheney and Bush are a greater danger by far.

"Repubs know how to handle those who are a danger to the country."

Give them Medals of Freedom?

"Can we take this in good "part""

Huh?

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