A Halt on All Bush Appointments.
Writing by on Thursday, 29 of September , 2005 at 8:14 am
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This is based on 2 things I have read, one is a post from Timbuk3 at the DailyKOS, they other is the Oct 3 TIME that asks “How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?”
From Time, (9 pages BTW, good read)
The Bush Administration didn’t invent cronyism; John F. Kennedy turned the Justice Department over to his brother, while Bill Clinton gave his most ambitious domestic policy initiative to his wife. Jimmy Carter made his old friend Bert Lance his budget director, only to see him hauled in front of the Senate to answer questions on his past banking practices in Georgia, and George H.W. Bush deposited so many friends at the Commerce Department that the agency was known internally as “Bush Gardens.” The difference is that this Bush Administration had a plan from day one for remaking the bureaucracy, and has done so with greater success.
As far back as the Florida recount, soon-to-be Vice President Dick Cheney was poring over organizational charts of the government with an eye toward stocking it with people sympathetic to the incoming Administration. Clay Johnson III, Bush’s former Yale roommate and the Administration’s chief architect of personnel, recalls preparing for the inner circle’s first trip from Austin, Texas, to Washington: “We were standing there getting ready to get on a plane, looking at each other like: Can you believe what we’re getting ready to do?”The Office of Personnel Management’s Plum Book, published at the start of each presidential Administration, shows that there are more than 3,000 positions a President can fill without consideration for civil service rules. And Bush has gone further than most Presidents to put political stalwarts in some of the most important government jobs you’ve never heard of, and to give them genuine power over the bureaucracy. “These folks are really good at using the instruments of government to promote the President’s political agenda,” says Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University and a well-known expert on the machinery of government. “And I think that takes you well into the gray zone where few Presidents have dared to go in the past. It’s the coordination and centralization that’s important here.”
And from Timbuk3 (much more “in your face”)
Sandra Day O’Connor’s resignation is not effective until her successor has been named and approved by the Senate. There is no urgency to fill her seat on the most important court in the (previously) United States of America.
Now that the House majority speaker (GOP) has been indicted, while we wait for the SEC investigation of the Senate majority leader (GOP), as we wait for Fitzgerald’s grand jury investigation of the treasonous outing of a CIA NOC by a GOP executive branch to wrap up, and as disapproval of the President himself (GOP) reaches into the 40% range (Rasmussen), it’s time to call a halt to the packing of the courts with ultra-right wing conservative activists.
We should not allow the GOP to continue to abuse their remaining, slim hold on power by installing corrupt judges who will see to it that the poor, women, and minorities will be punished for the sin of voting for Democrats. The President’s margin of victory was 117,000 votes in Ohio; votes that no one from either side can verify were counted fairly and correctly. This is not a mandate to overturn years of American tradition by turning our court system into an ideological machine.
The Democrats are often criticized for not taking a stand. Sometimes this accusation is just, and sometimes it isn’t, but there is no greater commitment that could be made at this time in our nation’s history than to take a stand against the self-serving GOP’s giveaway of our nation’s future to the freedom-hating “religious” ultra-right, the criminal corporations that move jobs and profits off-shore to avoid accountability, and the war-making machinery that steals from the middle class and gives to the few who profit from oil and death.
As the decay of our country continues the GOP places intolerant judges ever deeper into the core of the judiciary. Even lower court judges are ticking time bombs, waiting for the proper moment to unleash their deadly payloads of intolerance for the poor and underprivileged, obeisance to their corporate masters, and the defense of the new status quo of torture, pre-emptive war, and massive profits for the biggest supporters of the formerly reasonable Republican party.
Now is the time for the Democratic party to mobilize with ONE VOICE, the voice of their constituents, and ensure that this packing of the courts be suspended until the American people have again had a chance to speak.
No more judges (or controversial representatives) should be approved by the Senate until after the elections of 2006.
I read the following, and I have to agree, I think that all Bush Appointees should be halted until we can get a handle on the danger this administration has placed us in. How many more damn horse judges and defunked lawyers are there right now placed in a position that domestic and national security implication? We already have a failed businessman at the helm, do we need more?
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