Doan expected Rove aide to give ‘motivational speech.’
Doan expected Rove aide to give ‘motivational speech.’
GSA chief Lurita Doan is accused of violating federal law after she hosted a partisan PowerPoint briefing delivered by top Karl Rove deputy Scott Jennings, and then asked her agency employees to think up ways to help GOP candidates. During her hearing today, Doan claimed she didn’t know it would be a political meeting. “I thought we were going to have a motivational speech,” Doan told Rep. John Mica (R-FL). Watch it:
Earlier during the hearing, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) made public an email written by Doan while she was a staffer at the Homeland Security Department. From her official government account, Doan wrote, “as I mentioned, I believe that party has a unique opportunity to make about a 5 percent swing of the black vote to the GOP… one of the largest concentrations of wealth and influence lies in the black business community.”
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they're all crab-people!! that must be it... it's the only rational explination... CRAB-PEOPLE!!
June 13th, 2007 at 1:35 pmUgh, what a homely bitch.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:35 pmWhat is wrong with these people?
Why is it they want a communist like, single party all the way kind of ruling elite?
It's going to take years to get the federal bureaucracies balanced out again.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:37 pmi agree, crab-people
June 13th, 2007 at 1:37 pmHow humiliating. She sits there and actually pretends to be daft.
I'm embarrassed for her.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:39 pmWe should have seen this coming, way back in 2000.
That's when Karl Rove said that his goal was not to just defeat the Democratic party, but to destroy it.
Rove wanted, and still wants, a one-party government.
That makes him a Commie Nazi.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:39 pmFor such a seemingly clueless twit, she passed around an awful lot of money to Republican special interest groups.....
June 13th, 2007 at 1:41 pmWell it is now up to the Dictator to do what he knows is correct her and give Doan a raise since she is a trooper!
June 13th, 2007 at 1:45 pmAawww, come on, Doan! The cookies! Lets get to the cookies part, huh?
June 13th, 2007 at 1:46 pmAnd the bimbo parade continues.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pmshe doesn't even look like she believes herself
June 13th, 2007 at 1:48 pmthey taste like crab, but look like people
June 13th, 2007 at 1:50 pmIt looks as if I don't have to type 'refresh' anymore. It looks as if Zooey did win the battle yesterday. Zooey, I'm soooo sorry.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pmHumiliation is beyond these Bush's appointees, Zooely. Datf or not, Doan and her kind have one mission in life: support Bush by destroying the U.S. Constitutional prossess and democracy. And hoping to get rich from it.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:53 pmShe's so boring, the white guy with the crooked tie sitting behind her has lapsed into a coma.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:53 pmIt looks as if I don’t have to type ‘refresh’ anymore. It looks as if Zooey did win the battle yesterday. Zooey, I’m soooo sorry.
Comment by CompTROLLER V-1
Thanks, CT. It's not about winning or losing, I'm just glad the Firefox is working for you.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:58 pmShe’s so boring, the white guy with the crooked tie sitting behind her has lapsed into a coma.
Comment by RUCerious
I was wondering aobut those white lips. Ew.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:59 pmYa think he might be her pool boy?
June 13th, 2007 at 2:01 pmTP is all ecstatic that someone would want to sway the black vote from Democrats.
TP, Black-Americans can vote other than Democratic should they choose! They can believe any campaign they want, contrary to your usual crap!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:02 pmAt what point are the Democrats going to quit screwing around with these things.
At what point does ANY Democrat simply say, "Excuse me. A few minutes ago you said X. Now you are saying Y. Now which statement is true? Do you understand what the offense is for lying to Congress? Bailiff (or whatever) take her away."
Or is this going to be another "No confidence" vote?
June 13th, 2007 at 2:05 pmShe just keeps digging herself deeper and deeper in her own pile of sh*t. Let's wait until the boy Bush leaves office and then let's send her off to Gitmo. Brownback said that any prisoner would prefer Gitmo to a regular prison. Maybe a little waterboarding will help with her memory.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:07 pmis the jacket she's wearing from the Commander Adama For Women's spring collection?
June 13th, 2007 at 2:08 pmI think some might be in line for a Congressional Medal of Freedom!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:09 pmQuick, someone shine a blacklight on that dress, it's got W's DNA all over it!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:14 pmis the jacket she’s wearing from the Commander Adama For Women’s spring collection?
Comment by pgw
She's actually out of uniform -- no pearls.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:15 pmMaybe the Democrats can send a letter or file another non-binding resoution.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:17 pmThe rethug's defense of this woman surprised me then I recalled their motto:
June 13th, 2007 at 2:20 pmParty Over Nation Every Time!
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June 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pmSwine like her don't deserve pearls. Not even fake ones.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:24 pmShe's also missing her swastika arm band.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:25 pmOh, that's right, the Bush cabal's armband has a picture of Alfred E. Neuman on it, with the What Me Worry? Slogan below.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pmI think the comparisons made to Communists are apropos. The Bush administration has moved to central planning both within federal government agencies, and in the private sector through corruption of the contracting process. Planning is done according to a crude mix of ideology and political loyalty. Scientific and economic data are routinely suppressed or altered to distort and undercut debates on policy. This sort of corrupt one-party state in which loyal party apparatchiks loot and plunder the federal treasury, are not subject to laws, and are outright rewarded for malfeasance, incompetence, and criminal acts is just like the Soviet Union.
Congratulations, Republicans, for bringing Soviet-style Communism to the United States. It is quite an accomplishment.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:31 pmverbalknit, didn't the Chinese just sentence one of their ministers to death for corruption? Yeah, it was just because he got caught, but maybe there's hope and a lesson for us there.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pmI wanna read more posts....tada!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pmooopsers, that would be Verbalkint, not knit...duh, fingers don't fail me now!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pm"Congratulations, Republicans, for bringing Soviet-style Communism to the United States. It is quite an accomplishment.
Comment by VerbalKint — June 13, 2007 @ 2:31 pm"
But it's does not end there.....
Bush OFFICIALLY declares himself DICTATOR!!!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:35 pmhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROG20070521&articleId=5721
What's all this about Crab People taking over the government?
Well, I'll be drawn in butter!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:36 pmVerbalKint,
It's all part of the plan, they can't hate us for our freedom because we won't have any. Brilliant little monkey, isn't he?
dlet,
June 13th, 2007 at 2:37 pmHit Ctrl and F5 at the same time for refresh. I didn't come up with that, just passing it along. Seems that some of us are having refresh impotence and some don't.
We should have seen this coming, way back in 2000.
Comment by Tom3 — June 13, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
I think many of us did see it coming, Tom. I think those of us who didn't forsee damage this extensive can be forgiven, since if you had predicted this level of organized criminal activity throughout the executive branch, you would have sounded like a nutcase in 2000. (Unless the person you were telling it to actually knew Karl Rove personally.)
I think BushCo used that to their advantage for a long time. You know, the old Republican mantra -- "if you're going to lie, make it the biggest lie you can think of".
It's still tough for most Americans to accept that our president could be this incompetent and preside over an administration THIS corrupt. But as you say, Tom3, we should have seen it coming, in 2000.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:38 pmChimpy has his Executive Directive and also a new law giving him increased martial law powers and increased power over the National Guard. He's all set to declare himself Chimperor-for-Life.
I don't doubt he will try this. It would be easy to declare martial law after another false-flag attack like we had on 9-11.
Chimpy has destroyed this nation in six short years, and he is gearing up to complete the job.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:38 pmLurita DONE.
How can Chimpy support this bitch?
June 13th, 2007 at 2:46 pmIt’s still tough for most Americans to accept that our president could be this incompetent and preside over an administration THIS corrupt. But as you say, Tom3, we should have seen it coming, in 2000.
Comment by spit take — June 13, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
You are underestimating the enemy and mischaracterizing him. Bush has created a Military Dictatorship in the face of opposition. That is not the calling card of an idiot or incompetent individual. He used plays out of Joseph Goebbels play book that all bank on the power found in group-think. These people did such a good job that their NOW plans are moving ahead while all we can do is cry.
We must not fall prey to calling the Dictator “incompetent†or “idiotic†since he has transformed himself into the “King George†that we see. We were busy calling him names and he now has war power. When we realize what he did none of us want to admit that we fell for some cleaver tricks. Remember when we all got that “Tax Overpayment Refund Check†thing? That was the soon to be Dictator purchasing our individual support. We all cashed those checks and if you didn’t that would have been foolish too.
The thing now is “what to do about it?†If I had any pull here I would ask that we start out with general strikes. When that doesn’t work then we resort to strikes and marches. When that fails we should be prepared to fight to the death for liberty. The good part is that 78% of America don’t dig the Dictator. A CNN poll shows that 88% of America wants the Dictator in the dumpster ASAP.
Like it or not this is the situation people and endless talking and talk about a bunch of talking will only drag this out even longer. People it is so bad that we can’t even hope for a tax revolt since we only receive net pay. The illegal aliens keep the whole thing! Soon the states will come after all civilian guns and it is a fact that the government no longer fears the citizens even if some have guns.
Never kid yourself by pretending these people are stupid since they have the knife on our throats and are giving us the slow bleed.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:05 pm,
June 13th, 2007 at 3:06 pmMe thinks this country is in dire need of it's very own civil war. Even if the dems or indies get full control of everything in 2009,the repugs and their ilk will still be trying to ruin this countrys future. It is our duty as Americans to protect this country with any means possible and words aren't working.Next.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:09 pmI'm joking NSA.
Soon the states will come after all civilian guns and it is a fact that the government no longer fears the citizens even if some have guns.
Now wait a minute, here. Isn't this where the NRA steps in and screams... it's our second amendment right to have guns? Or is does that amendment "arm bears"?
June 13th, 2007 at 3:18 pmMs. Doan asked the White House's Scott Jennings to motivate her staff to write and enforce better contracts? What great lateral thinking!
Mr. Jennings' speeches to the GSA and to virtually every other federal agency wasn't about motivating govt staff to be happy in their work. It was to bend every agency's activity to the purpose of re-electing Republican officeholders.
The GSA employs tens of thousands of people who every year negotiate, enter into, monitor, enforce and terminate thousands of contracts for the purchase of tens of billions of goods and services for the USG. Ms. Doan had run a small "technology" firm that garnered a couple of million dollars worth of minority business set aside contracts. Commercially, a comma lost among the paragraphs of dissertation.
Ms. Doan was no more appropriately experienced to run the GSA than a Naval midshipman would be to run the Pacifiic Fleet. Ms. Doan was given a sinecure because she personally contributed over $200,000 to the RNC & Co. She hosted Mr. Jennings speeche(es) because she regarded her purpose as using her agency's resources to help her Republican team win.
Lurita Doan should be fired because she violated the law and because she didn't do what she was hired to do. That is, more efficiently run the USG's principal purchasing agency and see to it that every taxpayer got every dime's worth out of every contract. Instead, she made sure that every Republican Party-supporting contractor got every dime she could spend. Mr. Bush hired a lot of Lurita Doans.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:20 pmWell, it was a motivational speech. It was to motivate the employees of the GSA to get out there and use the US government to make sure that Republics were elected.
No way you are talking yourself out of this one Ms. Doan. You are toast. W isn't going to bail you out. You are not one of his inner circle so he could care less what happens to you. Now you know what it feels like to be like the rest of us.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:22 pmOr does that amendment “arm bears�
If the "decider" decides that he is now the "dictator", then the Americans that own guns need to hide their guns and prepare for an "insurgency".
June 13th, 2007 at 3:23 pm#42 I never did receive one of those refund checks.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:23 pmSoon the states will come after all civilian guns and it is a fact that the government no longer fears the citizens even if some have guns.
Now wait a minute, here. Isn’t this where the NRA steps in and screams… it’s our second amendment right to have guns? Or is does that amendment “arm bears�
Comment by Coffins draped with flags — June 13, 2007 @ 3:18 pm
Now go look at the thread about making it harder to get a hand gun for "criminals."
June 13th, 2007 at 5:09 pmI gotta say, I've never been a gun person, but in the last 6 months I have begun to see the NRA's point about the government coming to get you. I
June 13th, 2007 at 7:01 pmpowkat?
powkat, you there....?
I understand your concerns about hearing the knock on the door in the middle of the night, and not kno
June 13th, 2007 at 9:01 pmI think the casual confession that she thought she was enabling a Rove-office motivational speech is enough on its face value to constitute violation of the Hatch Act. Rove's only motivation was, is and will always be, partisan politics.
The sooner he can be forcibly reemoved from political life, the better.
But so many think he will walk out of this administration right into his next dirty trickmeister political position, with total arrogant impunity.
He has certainly broken enough REAL LAWS to get put away for a long, long time, if Justice ever peeks out from beneath her blindfold at the havoc Rove has wreaked on our fragile democracit process. If nothing else, he has taught us its weaknesses, because he has exploited every one of them to suppress the votes of minorities and other citizens across the spectrum of American politics.
Time will tell his fate.
And maybe some oversight will seal it.
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:24 am