Bush Appointee Gone Wild Drives Three DOJ Attorneys to Resign from Minneapolis Office

[Demeter]

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Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_070407_katrina_in_the_justi.htm


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April 7, 2007

Katrina in the Justice Dept; Bush Appointee Gone Wild Drives Three DOJ Attorneys to Resign from Minneapolis Office

By Rob Kall


This is like a Deja Vu from the days of Hurricane Katrina-- a whitehouse boosted, political, partisan appointee, this time, in the Justice Department, is SOOO bad, her aides have resigned en masse.

It appears that before Gonzales, Rove and company engineered the firings of the eight Justice Department US attorneys now referred to as the "attorneygate" firings, they tried out an experiment in Minneapolis, leaning on an obedient Republican US attorney, getting him to resign... which he did. They replaced him with a rabid, bible citing, apparently obnoxious, partisan insider who was unable to manage. This "Michael Brown" (in the spirit of Bush appointee incompetence) apointee is U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose.

It's gotten so bad that three career justice department attorneys have not quite resigned, but, to get away from Paulose, they've taken lower status, lower paying jobs within the justice department....Is the Minneapolis case part of the bigger attorneygate? That's something that congressional hearings should and will explore. Even if it is not clearly shown, this look inside the Bush/Gonzales justice department is ugly and shows the further deteriorization of government--a problem that has become systemic, throughout, it seems, all levels of national government infrastructure. The brazen insertion of underskilled, incompetent partisans is weakening America and putting the nation at risk. When Grover Norquist said he wanted to starve government so it was so small he could drown it in a bathtub, we did not have the intimations that government would also be poisoned by toxic, incompetent managers as well. I guess it's easier to kill a weakened creature, and that's what the right wing leadership, under Bush is perpetrating.

As long as Bush is in charge, this will continue, as evidenced by the three interim appointments he made this week of people the congress had already rejected.



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[BOSSHOG]

1. the light is being shined on bush's religious lunatics

33 year old with limited experience put in charge. Why? Because she knows shit in the bible? Because she's a "good" republican? Fucking lunatics all of them. And I hope the Senate puts that other religious fucking lunatic goodling on the stand and have her plead the fifth a hundred times on national TV.

bush appoints incompetent partisans. That aptly describes bush's base.

[Canuckistanian]

10. They do seem to have a penchant for inexperienced Bushbots

If their ideas have merit, then why appoint only the youngest, most inexperienced advocates for their ideology?

Why? Because they're malleable. Unsullied by worldly cynicism, they're ripe for pure, blind propaganda.

They probably all follow Rush, revere the Federalist Society and cultivate fundie contacts.

A more pliable group of isolated sycophants you'll never find.

[mwb970]

11. It reminds me of the children they put in charge of Iraq's reconstruction.

The whole thing was apparently run by 22-year-olds who gave the right answers to crucial questions like "Did you vote for Bush?" (right answer: yes) and "Do you oppose abortion?" (right answer: yes).

This is a travesty and a tragedy. Impeach. Now.

[katty]

14. more a religious cult - the U.S. has been Cult-Jacked

[irish.lambchop]

2. I thought they had resigned

thanks for this info. I think taking a lower-paying position speaks even louder than resigning!

[LiberalFighter]

4. I think it also gives them a bit of protection by being in the career level position

While if they are management they are more likely to be subject to being fired if they get on the wrong side of that idiot.

[napi21]

3. How in the hell does he FIND all these incompetent people?

I'm sitting here trying to think of at least ONE person Shrub has put in his admin who I can say is really doing a good job. I can't think of ANY!

The few he accidentally put in, he promptly fired! Like Paul O"Neal, the first Sec. Treasury. I didn't always agree with him, but he was a smart guy. Of course there was Richard Clark, but he was a Clinton holdover soI guess doesn't count.

[Demeter]

5. GOP Voter LIsts and Bible Colleges, Silly

Birds of a feather, and all that

[grasswire]

7. yep, Bible colleges

They are fanatics. Fundamentalists.

Here's our latest, Rachel Paulose:

[Vidar]

8. Question for the lawyers: Can't the American Bar Association

pull accreditation on the partisan cesspools (eg Falwell's & Robertson's) among the Bible Colleges?

[Demeter]

9. Doubt that the ABA Has Much Say On It

Bushbots make up their own standards, and their own accrediting committees. Tom Monaghan's Catholic Law Skool comes to mind: as if there were two kinds of law, and his was better!

[mwb970]

12. She looks like Malkin's cousin. /nt

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "Bushies Gone Wild -- The Video!" nt

[Demeter]

13. No more, please!