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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-05 09:31 PM
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Thin-skinned need not apply
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Picking Alan Greenspan’s successor as chairman of the Federal Reserve will be one of Bush’s most important tasks. Greenspan, 79, has led the Fed since 1987. He is expected to step down on Jan. 31.

The next chairman will play a crucial role in steering the world’s largest economy so that it grows solidly and produces jobs without fanning inflation.

Fed experts say it is critical for Greenspan’s successor to maintain the central bank’s independence from political influence.

“Politicians like low interest rates. That’s a fact of life,” said Susan Phillips, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board.

“The ability to be able to raise rates even though politically unpopular is very important to the long-run well being of the economy,” said Phillips, dean of the George Washington School of Business.

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I always felt Greenspan was more important than the president!!!
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-05 10:23 PM
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1. seeing the wonderfully qualified and competent people Bush has
appointed to various offices thus far, I am sure he will choose someone exceedingly fit for the job. :eyes:
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-05 10:26 PM
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2. Sorry, George. Andy Fastow is in prison...
...but after you pardon him and Kenny Boy, which you undoubtedly will, then maybe he can take the job. Asshole. © J. Skilling
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:06 AM
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7. Snicker (sort of). Fucking Fastow.
And you know...if Bush could, he would appoint him.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:39 AM
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8. Damned Kenny Boy would be Secy of Energy...
...if he hadn't gotten busted.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-05 10:30 PM
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3. * is THE most THIN-SKINNED whiner on the hill
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arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-05 10:41 PM
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4. And which of these lucky PNAC chickenhawks will get the job?
Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. During the Iran/Contra scandal, Abrams pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of lying to Congress but was later pardoned by the first Bush administration. He subsequently became president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is currently a member of Bush's National Security Council.

Gary Bauer, a Republican presidential candidate in 2000, who currently is president of an organization named American Values.

William J. Bennett, who served during the Reagan and first Bush administrations as U.S. Secretary of Education and Drug Czar. Upon leaving government office, Bennett became a "distinguished fellow" at the conservative Heritage Foundation, co-founded Empower America, and established himself as a self-proclaimed expert on morality with his authorship of The Book of Virtues.

Jeb Bush, the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and brother of current President George W. Bush. At the time of PNAC's founding, Jeb Bush was a candidate for the Florida governor's seat, a position which he currently holds.

Dick Cheney, the former White House Chief of Staff to Gerald R. Ford, six-term Congressman, and Secretary of Defense to the first President Bush, was serving as president of the oil-services giant Halliburton Company at the time of PNAC's founding. He subsequently became U.S. vice president under George W. Bush.

Eliot A. Cohen, a professor of strategic studies at John Hopkins University

Paula Dobriansky, vice president and director of the Washington office of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently Dobriansky serves in the Bush administration as Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs.

Steve Forbes, publisher, billionaire, and Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000. Forbes has also campaigned actively on behalf of the "flat tax," which would reduce the federal tax burden for wealthy individuals like himself.

Aaron Friedberg, professor of politics and international affairs; Director, Center of International Studies; Director, Research Program in International Security, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man; Dean of the Faculty and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Appointed to the President's Council on Bioethics by George W. Bush, January 2002.

Frank Gaffney - conservative columnist; founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.

Fred C. Ikle, "distinguished scholar" at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Donald Kagan, professor of history and classics at Yale University and the author of books including While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today; A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990; and The Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. Kagan is also a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard and a Washington Post columnist, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Alexander Hamilton fellow in American diplomatic history at American University. Past experience includes: Deputy for Policy in the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988); State Department's Policy Planning Staff member (1984-1985); speechwriter to Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985); foreign policy advisor to Congressman Jack Kemp (1983); Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency (1983); Assistant Editor at the Public Interest (1981).

Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-American who was the only Muslim among the group's original signatories and the only signatory who was not a native-born U.S. citizen. Khalilzad has became the Bush administration's special envoy to Afganistan after the fall of the Taliban as well as is special envoy to the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein. Khalilzad has written about information warfare, and in 1996 (in pre-Taliban days), he served as a consultant to the oil company Unocal Corporation (UNOCAL) regarding a "risk analysis" for its proposed pipeline project through Afghanistan and Pakistan.

William Kristol, PNAC's chairman, is also editor of the Weekly Standard, a Washington-based political magazine. His past involvements have included: lead of the Project for the Republican Future, chief of staff to Vice President J. Danforth Quayle, chief of staff to Secretary of Education William J. Bennett under the Reagan administration, taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

I. Lewis Libby, who later became chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney.

Norman Podhoretz, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of works such as Patriotism and its Enemies.

J. Danforth Quayle, former vice president under President George Herbert Walker Bush and a presidential candidate himself in 1996.

Peter W. Rodman, who served in the State Department and the National Security Council under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush, became the current Bush administration's Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security affairs in 2001.

Stephen P. Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University.

Henry S. Rowen was president of the RAND Corporation from 1967-1972. He served under former presidents Reagan and Bush as chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1981-83) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1989-91). He currently holds the title of "senior fellow" at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Donald H. Rumsfeld served former President Gerald R. Ford as chief of transition after Richard M. Nixon's resignation, later becoming Ford's chief of staff and secretary of defense from 1974-75. He subsequently served from 1990-93 as CEO of General Instrument Corporation and later as Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company. In 1998 he served as chairman of the bi-partisan US Ballistic Missile Threat Commission. Under President George W. Bush, he once again assumed the post of Secretary of Defense.

Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota, is now a well-connected lobbyist who has represented such firms as AT&T, Lockheed Martin and Microsoft. Veber is also vice chairman of Empower America and a former fellow of the Progress & Freedom Foundation.

George Weigel, a Roman Catholic religious and political commentator, is a "senior fellow" at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Paul Dundes Wolfowitz, formerly Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, became Undersecretary of Defense for President George W. Bush in 2001.

John R. Bolton, Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security in the Bush administration.

Ellen Bork, Deputy Director.

Thomas Donnelly, Senior Fellow.

Reuel Marc Gerecht, Senior Fellow, Director of the Middle East Initiative.

Bruce Jackson, President of the Project on Transitional Democracies. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy. He is the President of the U.S. Committee on NATO. Past experience includes: US Army intelligence (1979-1990), Office of the Secretary of Defense (1986-1990), chief strategist of proprietary trade operations at Lehman Brothers (1990-1993), high level management positions at Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corporation (1993-1999?).

Christopher Maletz, Assistant Director.

Daniel McKivergan, Deputy Director.

Richard N. Perle, an AEI associate, former Reagan administration official, and member (and former chairman) of the Defense Policy Board.

Gary Schmitt, Executive Director.

Randy Scheunemann, President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, served as an advisor to Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2001.

Chris Williams, former advisor to Sen. Trent Lott, former Special Assistant to Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld, current member of the Defense Policy Board and lobbyist for TRW, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

Taken from:
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-05 10:53 PM
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5. I thought this looked like the PNAC list. n/t
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 06:45 AM
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6. Just figure out which one is the least qualified
It's the only thing the * administration has been consistent about.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:42 AM
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9. In (corporate) America, he is. Except corp. america IS America.
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nemo137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 03:19 PM
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10. We need to impeach before then
So we can appoint someone who won't run us into the ground.
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