March 25, 2007

POLICY IS JUST POLITICS PUT INTO EFFECT:

Justice Department tugged to the right: Under Bush, the department has been tainted by politics, many say (Tom Hamburger, March 25, 2007, LA Times)

Not long after President Bush was first sworn in, White House political guru Karl Rove and his lieutenants met with officials of nearly every Cabinet agency to brief top officials on the latest polling data and issues that could influence voters and key constituencies.

But the departments of Justice, Defense and State were exempt. Given their missions -- to administer federal laws, protect national security and conduct foreign policy -- it was considered inappropriate to make such partisan presentations to them.


Not shifting State to the Right as well will be one of the few black marks on this presidency. Elections have to have consequences. The Progressive victory in insulating the Civil Service from the will of the people has been an unmitigated disaster and is antithetical to the Founding.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 25, 2007 8:47 AM
Comments

Samson should have been sent in to clean out the augean stables at the departments of Justice, Defense and State and Spector and Frist shouldn't have been let near any leadership role.

Posted by: erp at March 25, 2007 10:03 AM

erp--It was Hercules, not Samson, just to be nit picky on you ;) !

Posted by: Buttercup at March 25, 2007 10:41 AM

Not sure Samson wouldn't be the best solution for State, as long as we made sure everyone important was inside the building first.

Posted by: Kelly at March 25, 2007 2:10 PM

Nit pick away. I forgot how to spell Hercules, so I figured nobody would notice. On second thought, perhaps it was a Freudian slip. Samson should have been brought in to topple the towers.

Posted by: erp at March 25, 2007 3:01 PM

Not sure Samson wouldn't be the best solution for State, as long as we made sure everyone important was inside the building first.

Posted by: Kelly at March 25, 2007 3:29 PM

... Kelly and my kids ask why I hang around here so much.

If only the comments process wasn't so Kafka-esque.

Posted by: erp at March 25, 2007 4:25 PM

Come on, what's the point of being a pedantic curmudgeon if one cannot nit-pick once in a while?

Posted by: Lou Gots at March 25, 2007 7:42 PM

If we're going to suggest Biblical characters, how about Joshua, circling Foggy Bottom 7 times?

Defense needs a Judas Maccabeus. And Justice - only Moses could do that. But even he might not be able to shut up Schumer, Leahy, Kennedy, and Specter.

Posted by: jim hamlen at March 25, 2007 8:11 PM

jim, maybe we need to bring in Charlton Heston sending thunder bolts from the behind the clouds.

Posted by: erp at March 26, 2007 7:48 AM
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