Family Research Council calls for the elimination of the office of the Surgeon General

[ck4829]

"To save the taxpayers’ money, to eliminate yet another unneeded voice in the health-care cacophony, to free up a uniform for the local high school’s Pirates of Penzance performance and to save C-SPAN viewers from any more surgeon-general alumni reunion tours like last week’s hearings — eliminate the Office of Surgeon General today."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/07/frc_silent_no_m.html

Just trust in the corporate spokespeople, the corporations would never lie to you.

[youngdem]

1. Dear god, our country really is fucked

Hard to believe people like this exist.

It seems like there is about 30% of the population that will support ANY horrendous idea someone could come up with. The worse the idea, the better.

[jaxx]

2. Anything Dobson is a part of is poison.

He's the biggest hate monger alive today.

[BOSSHOG]

3. No greater reason to keep the post then your headline

The FRC is a bunch of fucking lunatics, proud of their ignorance, awash in hypocrisy and incredibly careless with factual data at their disposal.

[seafan]

4. Just like Cheney trying to abolish the classified information protection oversight unit...

....because he doesn't think he is accountable to anyone.



Doug Mills/The New York Times


Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data

By SCOTT SHANE
June 22, 2007

For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested abolishing the oversight unit, according to documents released yesterday by a Democratic congressman.

The Information Security Oversight Office, a unit of the National Archives, appealed the issue to the Justice Department, which has not yet ruled on the matter.

Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, disclosed Mr. Cheney’s effort to shut down the oversight office. Mr. Waxman, who has had a leading role in the stepped-up efforts by Democrats to investigate the Bush administration, outlined the matter in an eight-page letter sent Thursday to the vice president and posted, along with other documentation, on the committee’s Web site.

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In January, Mr. Leonard wrote to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales asking that he resolve the question. Erik Ablin, a Justice Department spokesman, said last night, “This matter is currently under review in the department.”

Whatever the ultimate ruling, according to Mr. Waxman’s letter, the vice president’s office has already carried out “possible retaliation” against the oversight office.

As part of an interagency review of Executive Order 12958, Mr. Cheney’s office proposed eliminating appeals to the attorney general — precisely the avenue Mr. Leonard was taking. According to Mr. Waxman’s investigation, the vice president’s staff also proposed abolishing the Information Security Oversight Office.

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We MUST remove these people from the levers of power. Nothing will change for the better until that happens.

[rucky]

5. how about a Faith Healer General?

Anointment Administrator?

Executive Exorcist?

[Aristus]

6. Does the FRC think the Surgeon General is the very model of a modern Major General?

Just asking...

[OHdem10]

7. And they say they are not going for Theocracy???

[Adsos Letter]

8. We could save the taxpayers a whole lot more money...

if, instead, we abolished funding for "faith-based" programs and ended tax-exemption for religious organizations.