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Bush surrounds himself with lying, cheating idiots and the rest of the US suffers for it. Fact.
Let's take a look at some of Bush's recent decisions in the area of important governmental appointments and see if we can squeeze any logic out of them at all. Going in, I'm guessing that finding even a trace of logic in his decisions is going to be like getting blood from a turnip. Let's have a look:
Secretary of State: Bush selected Condoleeza Rice, despite the fact that she completely lacked the experience and knowkledge base. The woman is a specialist in "Soviet Affairs!" Someone tell me how that is of any use today. Anyone? Here's a woman who lied repeatedly in efforts to hype up the Iraq war. Senator Robert Byrd put it very clearly saying, "Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people into believing that there was an imminent threat from Iraq." We've since learned there was no such threat. She has herself recently stated that the recent US foreign policy in the Middle East has been a failure. It's patently obvious Rice got the position not due to any amount of qualification, but solely because she a Bush sycophant.
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UN Ambassador: Bush selected John Bolton -- the same John Bolton who said, "If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." Many don't know it, but no fewer than 59 former US diplomats implored the Senate not to confirm Bolton, chiding him for his "insistence that the UN is valuable only when it directly serves the United States." Where is the logic in appointing someone so anti-UN as ambassador to the UN?
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Supreme Court Justice: Bush selected John Roberts. Nevermind that Roberts owns so much stock that his portfolio alone creates what Slate calls a "conflict-of-interest nightmare." See for yourself!
And now, Bush would like to place Roberts at the top of the heap and make him Chief Justice! WTF!? Is he kidding!?
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Head of the EPA: Bush chose Michael Leavitt. As Governor of Utah, Leavitt, in cahoots with Interior Secretary Gale Norton, "cut Utah's wilderness groups out of secret negotiations to open up wild lands to oil exploration." Leavitt also secretly negotiated two deals to open up millions of acres of Utah wilderness to roadbuilding and development. He opposed tightening arsenic limits for drinking water and even opposed new health-based standards for fine-particle pollution (despite a decade of studies showing a link between fine-particle pollution and tens of thousands of premature deaths every year). Further, when companies such as MagCorp* and Wasatch Energy Systems** blatantly broke environmental laws, Leavitt did nothing; The federal EPA had to bring its own cases against these companies.
*MagCorp released 10 times more chlorine air pollution than all other states combined.
**Wasatch Energy Systems violated dioxin limits by more than 300 percent. Dioxins are highly carcinogenic compounds found in herbicides. Yum!
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And now, in the aftermath of Katrina, we learn of yet another dipshit appointment on Bush's part.
FEMA Director: Bush chose Michael Brown, whose distinguishing qualification was being "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" of the International Arabian Horse Association (which ended up firing him for incompetence, by the way). That's his great experience which got him the job handling massive relief efforts.
Blogger Josh Marshall summed up Brown's career path nicely: "So let me see if I understand this. Brown's a Republican from the southwest. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress when he was thirty-three. Then he bounced from job to job, finally getting into the sports business in mid-life, before getting canned. And then he used connections to land himself a high-powered position in the federal government for which he had no apparent experience at all." Hmm, sounds a lot like a certain pinch-eyed president, doesn't it?
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It seems to me Bush's logic goes something like this: GW Bush is a completely incompetent f*ck-up and he was elected twice, so why not put other complete f*ck-ups in high places? Bush is starting to remind me of the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert.
So... can any conservatives out there explain to me how Bush's appointments are even remotely intelligent and logical? Betcha can't!
Let's take a look at some of Bush's recent decisions in the area of important governmental appointments and see if we can squeeze any logic out of them at all. Going in, I'm guessing that finding even a trace of logic in his decisions is going to be like getting blood from a turnip. Let's have a look:
Secretary of State: Bush selected Condoleeza Rice, despite the fact that she completely lacked the experience and knowkledge base. The woman is a specialist in "Soviet Affairs!" Someone tell me how that is of any use today. Anyone? Here's a woman who lied repeatedly in efforts to hype up the Iraq war. Senator Robert Byrd put it very clearly saying, "Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people into believing that there was an imminent threat from Iraq." We've since learned there was no such threat. She has herself recently stated that the recent US foreign policy in the Middle East has been a failure. It's patently obvious Rice got the position not due to any amount of qualification, but solely because she a Bush sycophant.
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UN Ambassador: Bush selected John Bolton -- the same John Bolton who said, "If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." Many don't know it, but no fewer than 59 former US diplomats implored the Senate not to confirm Bolton, chiding him for his "insistence that the UN is valuable only when it directly serves the United States." Where is the logic in appointing someone so anti-UN as ambassador to the UN?
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Supreme Court Justice: Bush selected John Roberts. Nevermind that Roberts owns so much stock that his portfolio alone creates what Slate calls a "conflict-of-interest nightmare." See for yourself!
Originally posted by Slate
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Head of the EPA: Bush chose Michael Leavitt. As Governor of Utah, Leavitt, in cahoots with Interior Secretary Gale Norton, "cut Utah's wilderness groups out of secret negotiations to open up wild lands to oil exploration." Leavitt also secretly negotiated two deals to open up millions of acres of Utah wilderness to roadbuilding and development. He opposed tightening arsenic limits for drinking water and even opposed new health-based standards for fine-particle pollution (despite a decade of studies showing a link between fine-particle pollution and tens of thousands of premature deaths every year). Further, when companies such as MagCorp* and Wasatch Energy Systems** blatantly broke environmental laws, Leavitt did nothing; The federal EPA had to bring its own cases against these companies.
*MagCorp released 10 times more chlorine air pollution than all other states combined.
**Wasatch Energy Systems violated dioxin limits by more than 300 percent. Dioxins are highly carcinogenic compounds found in herbicides. Yum!
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And now, in the aftermath of Katrina, we learn of yet another dipshit appointment on Bush's part.
FEMA Director: Bush chose Michael Brown, whose distinguishing qualification was being "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" of the International Arabian Horse Association (which ended up firing him for incompetence, by the way). That's his great experience which got him the job handling massive relief efforts.
Blogger Josh Marshall summed up Brown's career path nicely: "So let me see if I understand this. Brown's a Republican from the southwest. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress when he was thirty-three. Then he bounced from job to job, finally getting into the sports business in mid-life, before getting canned. And then he used connections to land himself a high-powered position in the federal government for which he had no apparent experience at all." Hmm, sounds a lot like a certain pinch-eyed president, doesn't it?
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It seems to me Bush's logic goes something like this: GW Bush is a completely incompetent f*ck-up and he was elected twice, so why not put other complete f*ck-ups in high places? Bush is starting to remind me of the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert.
So... can any conservatives out there explain to me how Bush's appointments are even remotely intelligent and logical? Betcha can't!
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