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05-15-2007, 01:09 PM
In a just-released book, Lee Iacocca , the former Chrysler CEO- who supported Bush's first campaign in 2000 but backed Sen. John Kerry four years later- accused Bush of leading the nation to war "on a pack of lies" and lacking the basic components of good leadership.
"I think our current President should visit the real world once in a while," Iacocca writes. "Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening?" "Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff.
"We've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
He scoffs at Bush's business-degree background: "Thanks to our first MBA President we've got the largest deficit in history, Social Security is on life support, and we've run up a half-a-trillion price tag so far in Iraq. And that's just for starters." This is from Gordon Trowbridge of the Detroit News.
Here's some stuff from the New York Times' Paul Krugman.
This is an article titled "Bush Picking From The Far, Far RIght
Today, Regent University, founded by Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," boasts that it has 150 graduates working in the Bush administration.
Unfortunately for the image of the school, where Robertson is chancellor and president, the most famous of those graduates is Monica Goodling, a product of the university's law school.
She's the former top aide to Alberto Gonzales who appears central to the scandal of the fired U.S. attorneys and has declared that she will take the Fifth rather than testify to Congress on the matter. Actually she has been granted immunity and subpeonaed to testify before Congress.
Kay Cole James, who had extensive connections to the religious right and was the dean of Regent's government school, was the federal government's chief personnel officer from 2001 to 2005.
(Curious fact: she then took a job with Mitchell Wade, the businessman who bribed Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.)
It's clear that unqualified people were hired throughout the administration because of their religious connections.
For example, The Boston Globe reports on one Regent law school graduate who was interviewed by the Justice Department's civil rights division.
Asked what Supreme Court decision of the past 20 years he most disagreed with, he named the decision to strike down a Texas anti-sodomy law. When he was hired, it was his only job offer.
Or consider George Deutsch, the presidential appointee at NASA who told a Web site designer to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang, to leave open the possibility of "intelligent design by a creator."
He turned out not to have, as he claimed, a degree from Texas A&M.
One measure of just how many Bushies were appointed to promote a religious agenda is how often a Christian right connection surfaces when we learn about a Bush administration scandal.
THere's Ms. Goodling, of course. But did you know that Rachel Paulose, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota-three of whose deputies recently stepped down in protest over her management style-is, according to a local news report, in the habit of quoting Bible verses in the office?
Or there's the case of Claude Allen, the presidential aide and former deputy secretary of health and human services, who stepped down after being investigated for petty theft.
Most press reports, though they mentioned Allen's faith, failed to convey the fact that he built his career as a man of the hard-line Christian right.
You see, Regent isn't a religious university the way Loyola or Yeshiva are religious universities. It's run by someone whose first reaction to 9/11 was to brand it God's punishment for America's sins.
Two days after the terrorist attacks, Robertson held a conversation with Jerry Falwell on Robertson's TV show "The 700 Club."
Falwell laid blame for the attack at the feet of "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians,'' not to mention the ACLU and People for the American Way. "Well, I totally concur," Robertson said.
Then there's Paul Wolfowitz, ain't he a prize? dbrown20
"I think our current President should visit the real world once in a while," Iacocca writes. "Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening?" "Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff.
"We've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
He scoffs at Bush's business-degree background: "Thanks to our first MBA President we've got the largest deficit in history, Social Security is on life support, and we've run up a half-a-trillion price tag so far in Iraq. And that's just for starters." This is from Gordon Trowbridge of the Detroit News.
Here's some stuff from the New York Times' Paul Krugman.
This is an article titled "Bush Picking From The Far, Far RIght
Today, Regent University, founded by Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," boasts that it has 150 graduates working in the Bush administration.
Unfortunately for the image of the school, where Robertson is chancellor and president, the most famous of those graduates is Monica Goodling, a product of the university's law school.
She's the former top aide to Alberto Gonzales who appears central to the scandal of the fired U.S. attorneys and has declared that she will take the Fifth rather than testify to Congress on the matter. Actually she has been granted immunity and subpeonaed to testify before Congress.
Kay Cole James, who had extensive connections to the religious right and was the dean of Regent's government school, was the federal government's chief personnel officer from 2001 to 2005.
(Curious fact: she then took a job with Mitchell Wade, the businessman who bribed Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.)
It's clear that unqualified people were hired throughout the administration because of their religious connections.
For example, The Boston Globe reports on one Regent law school graduate who was interviewed by the Justice Department's civil rights division.
Asked what Supreme Court decision of the past 20 years he most disagreed with, he named the decision to strike down a Texas anti-sodomy law. When he was hired, it was his only job offer.
Or consider George Deutsch, the presidential appointee at NASA who told a Web site designer to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang, to leave open the possibility of "intelligent design by a creator."
He turned out not to have, as he claimed, a degree from Texas A&M.
One measure of just how many Bushies were appointed to promote a religious agenda is how often a Christian right connection surfaces when we learn about a Bush administration scandal.
THere's Ms. Goodling, of course. But did you know that Rachel Paulose, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota-three of whose deputies recently stepped down in protest over her management style-is, according to a local news report, in the habit of quoting Bible verses in the office?
Or there's the case of Claude Allen, the presidential aide and former deputy secretary of health and human services, who stepped down after being investigated for petty theft.
Most press reports, though they mentioned Allen's faith, failed to convey the fact that he built his career as a man of the hard-line Christian right.
You see, Regent isn't a religious university the way Loyola or Yeshiva are religious universities. It's run by someone whose first reaction to 9/11 was to brand it God's punishment for America's sins.
Two days after the terrorist attacks, Robertson held a conversation with Jerry Falwell on Robertson's TV show "The 700 Club."
Falwell laid blame for the attack at the feet of "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians,'' not to mention the ACLU and People for the American Way. "Well, I totally concur," Robertson said.
Then there's Paul Wolfowitz, ain't he a prize? dbrown20