Bush Recess appointments- A creepy "Facts of Life" Reunion

[Ian David]

January 05, 2006
Facts of Life In DC

“Mrs. G and the Girls' Recess in Washington”







(Left to Right: Ellen Sauerbrey (aka Mrs. G); Julie Myers (aka Jo); Tracy Henke (aka Natalie)

By making his controversial appointments during the Senate recess, Bush not only found a way to unite three individuals separated at birth from some of the best-loved TV characters of the 1980s, he also managed to avoid that whole tricky Senate approval process … giving this shady trio a much less turbulent ride to their new posts.

Bush appointed Julie Myers to head up the Immigration & Customs Enforcement bureau at the Dept of Homeland Security. Had the Myers appointment been made when the Senate was in session, the little issue of her glaring lack of experience in immigration might have posed a problem. Then again, talk of the fact that Myers is the niece of former Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Richard Myers and wife of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s chief of staff might have led for little time to discuss Myers’ lack of experience in immigration …

The appointment of Tracy Henke to head the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness might also have given cause for debate. According to the Washington Post, while working at the Justice Department, Henke was accused of “demanding that information about racial disparities in police treatment of blacks in traffic cases be deleted from a news release.”

And Mrs. G, oh, Mrs. G. Bush’s appointment of former Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ellen Sauerbrey to the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration might have raised issues of her longstanding opposition to abortion rights. Or, lawmakers might have begun wondering why Bush didn’t instead create a more appropriate position for Sauerbrey … say, Assistant Secretary of State for Abstinence.

Begs the question why Bush hasn’t left more of his more embarrassing and controversial decisions to be made during recesses. Then again, hard to fight a whole war during a 4-week recess.

More:
http://www.senatemajority.com/ethics_and_hypocrisy/facts_of_life_in_dc_1.html

You know the only one missing?


CHILD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT:
"Hot Saucing"
A traditional method for punishing children

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Hot saucing advocates:

Lisa Whelchel was a Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer, played the role "Blair" in the television program "Facts of Life," is a home-school mom, is an Evangelical Christian, is a motivational speaker, and the author of the book: "Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline."



2 She said that "For lying or other offenses of the tongue, I 'spank' my kids' tongues. I put a tiny drop of hot sauce on the end of my finger and dab it onto my child's tongue. It stings for a while, but it abates. It's the memory that lingers!" 1 She feels that the practice worked for her children when other disciplinary actions failed. Appearing on ABC News' Good Morning America, she said: "It does sting and the memory stays with them so that the next time they may actually have some self-control and stop before they lie or bite or something like that....I prefer my child receive a small amount of pain from my hand of love than to encounter a lot more pain in life....It's a logical consequence. If you cause somebody pain, either by the words you say by lying and not being a trustworthy person or by biting, this is a logical consequence. It's your mouth that's the offender." Whelchel restricted the punishment on her own children between the pre-school age to their 10th birthday. In an interview with the Washington Post, she said: "A correction has to hurt a little. An effective deterrent has to touch the child in some way. I don't think Tabasco is such a bad thing.... drawing a line to protect the child and if they cross that line, there will be pain." Whelchel said she believes that disciplinary methods should be left up to parents. They know their child best, are devoted to the child's well-being, and can administer punishment with love. She mentions that hot saucing can be overdone. "If there's a mom who shakes the bottle on the kid's tongue, that mom probably does deserve to have someone poking into her business. But I think most moms are caring and intuitive. You can't throw out a bunch of good stuff because of the exceptions." 1 She quotes: Proverbs 10:31: "The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the forward (perverse) tongue shall be cut out." 6

More:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/spankin9.htm

[Oreo]

1. Poor Kids

They'll never get the pleasure of eating Buffalo Wings. They'll have flashbacks from their childhood. Crazy Fundy.

[Ian David]

3. If my mom were "hot saucing" me, I'd train myself to tolerate hot food

I'd buy a bottle of the stuff to keep in my school locker and put it on everything I eat until I grow accustomed to it.

And then, when mom hotsauced me, I'd just pretend it hurt.

[Oreo]

4. Not if she surprised you with this

http://www.sweatnspice.com/heat.php?heat=4

I always love looking through the hot sauce aisle

[peacetalksforall]

2. I beleive everything you wrote is the truth. The truth under the kingdom

of George, the 2nd, is ugly, disgusting, and painful. I long for my imperfect country who was always trying to progress.