Bush Chooses Domestic Policy Adviser

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) is bringing into the top ranks of his White House staff another official he has been unsuccessful in appointing to a federal appeals court.

Bush has chosen Claude Allen, the Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites)' No. 2 official, to be his domestic policy adviser, responsible for shaping all White House proposals and decisions on domestic issues, press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday.

Bush nominated Allen to a federal appeals court, the 4th Circuit based in Richmond, in April 2003 and again a year ago, but Allen never received a vote in the Senate. During his confirmation hearing, Allen was questioned about his use of the word "queer" when he was a press aide to Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., in 1984. Allen said he didn't intend it as a slur against gay people.

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In other second-term White House personnel changes, Bush is elevating communications director Dan Bartlett to a more sweeping role in which he will add more policy formulation, agenda implementation and big-picture message planning to his portfolio. Bartlett will assume the title of counselor, retired when Karen Hughes left Bush's full-time employ in 2002.

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[annabanana]

1. He has a "Domestic Policy"?

Besides STFU I mean. IS there anything beyond the "screw you" school of entitlement support? (I'm taking back the word 'entitlement', btw..It's ours no matter how long they misuse it)

[soleft]

2. Please tell me this isn't the guy who's the Christian Reconstructionist?

Who belongs to a group that says homosexuals should be put to death, then denied he endorsed their position. I hope he's not THAT guy.

[htuttle]

3. That's him

The same guy the Senate turned down for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals:
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=68

[cosmicdot]

4. is this a reward for Fraud '04 (+'02, '00)?

the Christian Reconstructionists are now in the White House halls of power? mix that in with the psychopaths already there, those in boot step march on the Hill and in the Courts with an echo chamber as "media"

... and, that scares me ...

ES&S, Diebold, etc., came through ...

"ES&S also enjoyed the financial support of far-right California billionaire Howard Ahmanson. He provided capital to brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich, the founders of ES&S precursor American Information Systems. Bob Urosevich now heads the election division of Diebold, and Todd Urosevich is a top executive at ES&S. Ahmanson also funded the Chalcedon Foundation, a leading institution of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, which advocates the establishment of Christian theocracy and Old Testament law in the US, including the death penalty for homosexuals."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/vote-d24.shtml

"The majority stake in ES&S is owned by Howard F. Ahmanson and the Ahmanson Foundation, heirs to the Home Savings of America fortune. Howard Ahmanson has long been associated with Christian Reconstruction, a radical faction of the Religious Right that seeks to replace American democracy with a theocracy based on biblical law and under the "dominion" of Christians. For years, the Orange County, California multimillionaire served on the board of the Chalcedon Foundation, the lunatic Right's think tank. He has channeled millions from his family's fortune to a variety of causes designed to discredit and defeat Darwin's evolution theory. He currently is a member of ultra-right Council for National Policy."
http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/2003_02_05_bestof.html

{sarcasm}I'll just call Hastert and Frist and voice my concern; and demand their attention to this matter. {/sarcasm}

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

[Justitia]

6. These people are absolute freaks!

I remember this whackjob from before.

Bush's litmus test for a WH job: "Bring me the craziest motherfucker you can find".

Egads.