Critics see a spoils system in the White House

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/DN-bushjobs_10nat.ART.State.Edition1.9458b35.html


Michael Brown got his job through the good ol' boy network, and he's proud of it. Now, Harriet Miers has been branded a crony by some opposing her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.


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On Friday, the president's nominee for deputy attorney general, former deputy White House counsel Timothy Flanigan, abruptly withdrew amid persistent questions about his role in developing the administration's interrogation policies in the war against terrorism and his dealings as a corporate attorney with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is under federal investigation

Some senators are also questioning the appointment of yet another lawyer – Julie Myers, 36, who barely meets the statutory requirement of five years of law enforcement and management experience to head the sprawling Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Her uncle is retired Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, whom Mr. Bush appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2001.

Democrats and other critics charge, too, that the Bush administration fosters a revolving-door policy in which appointees return to the business world and become consultants and lobbyists who ply on their old government service. And there have been complaints that the administration has tried to politicize agencies.

[ClintonTyree]

1. Where has the Dallas News been for the last 10 years or so?

Christ, they're just discovering this now after he was governor of Texas and is in his second term as president? DUH! :silly: The freaking media has known this shit for years and NOW they're reporting it as if it's a big scoop?
Idiots.

[Carolab]

3. Well at least they are finally covering it!

AND in the Texas papers!

[rainbow4321]

4. They do that alot..

A few months ago their "investigative report" was about TX high schools helping kids cheat on standardized tests in recent years...led to a big phony "gasp" from locals and state politicans who were shocked to be told this info.

Yeah, um...Google the words "TAAS, cheating, and Bush" and it brings up a shitload of cheating going on under chimp's regime as TX governor in the 90's. Yet the DMN was all but patting themselves on their back for this breaking investigation just within the last year (2004-2005).

[Carolab]

5. So I guess Texas isn't * country after all....? n/t

[SharonAnn]

2. And they complained that Clinton let cronies have a "sleep-over"

at the White House.

[Supersedeas]

6. Bushism is cronyism--if only the Corp Crony Media would report it