Even the summer interns were loyal Bushies.
By on Apr 28th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Even the summer interns were loyal Bushies.
“The Justice Department is removing political appointees from the hiring process for rookie lawyers and summer interns, amid allegations that the Bush administration had rigged the programs in favor of candidates with connections to conservative or Republican groups… The decision, outlined in an internal memo distributed Thursday, returns control of the Attorney General’s Honors Program and the Summer Law Intern Program to career lawyers in the department after four years during which political appointees directed the process.”
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I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:37 amAgain, EVERY Administration hires / fires these types of positions on politics. If you weren’t upset about it before, why now?
April 28th, 2007 at 11:05 am#
Again, EVERY Administration hires / fires these types of positions on politics. If you weren’t upset about it before, why now?
Comment by Jake — April 28, 2007 @ 11:05 am
Prove this statement.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:23 amRemember, this was all part of Karl Rove’s master plan for 200 years of Republican controlled of government.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:31 amEvery summer intern for this program during the Clinton Administration was registered Democrat. If anyone NOT on the “Ignore List” wants to argue that was just a coincidence, let me know.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:33 amprove your claim that every summer intern was a registered democrat. that is laughable, you raving asshat.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:41 amIt’s on the application form, if anyone NOT on the “Ignore List” wants to discuss.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:42 amYou know the only thing Bush has not done yet to insure power forever is to set up a program for breading a master race of blond haired blue eyed childeren.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:45 amBush can have as many inept bumbing crony panty-waist- mama’s-boy and daddy’s-little-princess interns his pointed little eyebrow line desires. It’s when his illiterate cronies end up in positions of actual influence that we and the entire world pay a heavy price, a price we’ll be paying into perpetuity until we demand the wealthy pay their fair share for this illegal occupation they advocate in both treasure and blood. Draft the rich.
But I should give credit where due: Monica Goodling’s diploma from the fourth-tier law school run by Pat Robertson out of his TV studio was good enough to earn her immunity. Well, in a manner of speaking.
The moral of this story: We should never entrust governance to people who proclaim they despise it.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:50 amIs there any part of the government that Bush has not politicized? I wonder how much money these political appointees have cost us, the taxpayer. We all know how well the Coalition Provisional Authority did with all those 30 something Republics running the show. I wonder how many of them ended up with one of the bundles of $100 bills that were part of the missing 9 billion dollars. It still amazes me that no one has raised a ruckus about that missing money. If this was a Democratic administration, the President would have been impeached for that alone.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:52 amThe 28th Amendment (2009)
SECTION 1. Corporations shall not be considered persons as ratified by the 14th Amendment.
SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
CLOSE THE CORPORATE OPPRESSION LOOPHOLE IN 2008
April 28th, 2007 at 11:53 amDave @ 8: Bush’s experiements in genetics has already yielded two fine daughters, all ready and fit for military duty. Similarly his brother Jeb has at least one daughter whose mug shot any parent would be proud to see in a post office. Surely a power greater than simple natural selection was at work. No, not God, but perhaps science. Who knows.
We’ve already heard the matriarch of the family reveal her true self, commenting that Katrina victims forced to live in the Astrodome have never had it so good. And Prescott was quite cozy with the Nazis, wasn’t he? The Bushes have eugenics all over them.
And since the Bush track record is to say one thing and do precisely the opposite, their strong public disapproval of human cloning makes me very suspicious. We’ll just have to see what happens in 2008.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:00 pmtrippin,
I like the way you think.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:06 pmIt’s on the application form, if anyone NOT on the “Ignore List†wants to discuss.
Comment by Jake
Jake, are you still playing this tired game?
For TP readers: Jake’s ignore list is just his primadonna act.
He responds to those on his “list,†making it just another form of conservative hypocrisy. Here’s an example, from a short while ago. Notice how he answers my question, while seemingly not to:
The FIRST job of the government is to PROTECT the people. Jake
Um, I thought it was to uphold the Constitution? Or has that changed since 9/11?
Comment by barfly — April 13, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
For the record, if all the People are killed by terrorists with suitcase nukes, it matters no longer to uphold the Constitution.
Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
As you readers can see, the little dear is just too egotistical to to keep his fat mouth shut.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:11 pmSo these interns have been made into a brownshirt brigade.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:32 pmAnd posting under alternate names (Michael, Dan) just didn’t satisfy Jake’s thirst for attention.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:32 pmHe should go into musical theater. He is about as believable.
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It’s on the application form, if anyone NOT on the “Ignore List†wants to discuss.
Comment by Jake — April 28, 2007 @ 11:42 am
Again, Jake. Prove what you are saying. Links, documents, etc. would be something to back up your premise. Without those, all you are doing is apparently just making it up as you go.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:17 pmThey want another generation of mindless slugs. Great.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:34 pmIn a bureaucracy, this shouts irrationality, favoritism and corrupt practice.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:58 pmLoyal Bushie = Lame brain in the Bush Crime Family.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:15 pmKool-Aid?
Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid? The Bush administration looks and behaves more like a cult than a presidential administration.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:38 pmEverything that this radioactive Idiot-for-Preznit has touched, he has tainted, if not ruined beyond repair. Yet we Americans are just in the back set, out for a ride on a Sunday afternoon, while the moron at the wheel drives us over a cliff. If only those who can, would have the balls to impeach the bastard, as a favor to us all, and the world.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:05 pmThey didn’t do anything wrong, mind you. They’re just changing for the sake of change.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:56 pmOh no, not the interns!!! Internships have never been political! They are the last bastion of nonpartisanship! WTF????
April 29th, 2007 at 12:41 amC’mon TP there are a steady stream of real scandals. Just makes you look foolish when you start fishin for em.
prove your claim that every summer intern was a registered democrat jake
April 29th, 2007 at 11:33 am…and these are the people who foam at the mouth over affirmative action.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:50 am