Saturday, March 17, 2007

Bush Administration Favors Loyalty Over Competence

If you've been paying attention at all, you've heard about the scandal involving the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, and the subsequent cover-up by the White House and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who famously said that the US Constitution does not guarantee a right to Habeas Corpus. Gonzalez is also famous for being able to walk up-right while being completely void of a spinal column.

The fact that the Attorneys were fired for a flagrant lack of proclivity to kiss up to the Bushies shouldn't surprise anyone. Bush's preference for blind adherence to his sinister goals over job-competence is well-precedented. Perhaps the best example of this is the appointment of the infamous Michael Brown to the head of FEMA; a man whose prior employment was over-seeing horse trial judges for the Arabian Horse Association, a position from which he was asked to resign.

Agents in charge of accounting for war expenditures in Iraq have been criticised for a lack of experience, but curiously, many among them have been involved in campaign fund-raising for Bush. Is it coincidental that 400 Billion dollars have simply evaporated in Iraq?

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