Hamlette
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:02 PM
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I remember Clinton having problems with Cabinet appointments but did Bush? |
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I'm blanking. Is it just dems? And if so, why? Held to higher standards?
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:04 PM
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1. Democrats never stood up to really stop any Bush's nominees |
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And the media never investigated them.
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:04 PM
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2. Republicon Homelanders want America to fail |
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So they have devoted themselves to trying to screw up everything (and they are very talented at that)
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:06 PM
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3. Linda Chavez - Bush's pick for labor |
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Can't remember what happened, just the name and the position.
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:11 PM
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5. Wasn't it something with paying an illegal who lived with her? |
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Edited on Fri Feb-13-09 07:12 PM by Drunken Irishman
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:18 PM
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6. Yes, that is what I remember. n/t |
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:09 PM
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4. Bush also did a large number of recess appointments |
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like Bolton to avoid Senate confirmation. He had over 100 recess appointments during his 8 year term.
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:25 PM
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7. Chavez, Bolton, Harriet Meyers, and Fox are the ones I remember |
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Bolton and Fox NEVER were going to get either SFRC approval or confirmation in the Senate.
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:27 PM
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8. Ashcroft barely squeaked by |
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:48 PM
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The goddamned Democrats gave him everything he wanted... except Harriet Meyers.
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Fri Feb-13-09 09:55 PM
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13. It wasn't Democrats that forced him to back down from Miers. |
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It was other Republicans fearing she would be the next Souter.
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Fri Feb-13-09 07:51 PM
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10. President Cheney had the cabinet "all picked out", and the dems were a MINORITY |
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in the senate, and on the committees, so most sailed through, except for Chavez.. (they threw her under the bus pretty quickly)
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Fri Feb-13-09 08:00 PM
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11. The Corporate Media fears their Corporate Bosses enough to rarely |
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challenge GOP. GOP are "most disciplined"---fall in lockstep ans dare anyone to question.
Our Party no longer has the "statesmen" it once had and cave withoug questioning.
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Fri Feb-13-09 09:43 PM
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12. Read suskind's Price of Loyalty, about Paul Oneill and his concerns about |
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the Bush administration. Hard hitting and prescient. We should have listened. Instead, Cheney and Rove smeared him.
Bush's head of faith based programs also resigned. Scores of ambassadors resigned over Iraq, including Keisling (googled his letter...very telling).
Bush had all kinds of problems.
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Fri Feb-13-09 10:09 PM
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14. We never saw it on TV, |
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so it must not have happened.
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