Lurita Doan returns as a radio commentator.
Lurita Doan returns as a radio commentator.
Last April, the Bush administration forced General Services Administration (GSA) chief Lurita “cookies on the table” Doan, who was dogged with scandal, to resign from her post. Last night, TPM’s David Kurtz noted that Doan is now returning to public life as a commentator on leadership for Federal News Service. Doan, who once compared GSA inspector general employees to terrorists, describes her personal beliefs on leadership:
“I think it’d be really interesting to look at leadership that works within the government, and sometimes outside of the government, and of course at leadership that doesn’t work, and what the consequences are both for us as government employees and for American taxpayers,” says Doan. […]
“It’s much talked about, everyone has an opinion about it, many like to claim the mantle, but leadership is enormously hard, incredibly challenging and it’s something we are all constantly searching for both in and out of government,” explains Doan.
There’s no doubt that Doan has first hand experience with “leadership that doesn’t work.”
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July 25th, 2008 at 10:37 amHow sad that this person is commenting on leadership for any news service. It shows how far the bar has fallen.
The race to lowest common denominator continues on employee pay, benefits, and executive intelligence. Top leadership compensation continues to soar, regardless of “performance”.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:40 amDoan on leadership is like Cheney on gun safety….
July 25th, 2008 at 10:41 amCookies!!!
July 25th, 2008 at 10:42 amDoan: “I think it’d be really interesting to look at leadership that works within the government, and sometimes outside of the government, and of course at leadership that doesn’t work, and what the consequences are both for us as government employees and for American taxpayers”
- - I think it’d be really interesting to look at cronyism that works within the government, and sometimes outside of the government, and of course at cronyism that doesn’t work, and what the consequences are both for us as government employees and for American taxpayers.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:43 amDoes anyone even listen to pundits anymore? Even the ones with whom I agree politically don’t seem to have a clue. If they all guessed without facts they’d do a better job.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:44 amShe’s Doan, stick a fork in her.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:44 amHow many times can you say “do as I say, not as I do”?
July 25th, 2008 at 10:45 amHenry Waxman D-CA commented on her “leadership”:
I want to give you my observations, Ms. Doan. The committee has now investigated mutiple allegations against you in your first year — in your first year — as GSA administrator, including the following: that you violated federal contracting rules by awarding a no-bid contract to your close personal friend. That you intervened in contract negotiations on behalf of Sun Microsystems, potentially costing taxpayers millions of dollars. That you violated the Hatch Act by encouraging federal employees to use government resources to help Republican congressional candidates. That you made false and misleading statements to this committee, to Sen. Charles Grassley, to the Office of Special Counsel, to the press. That you disparaged the credibility and professional credentials of colleagues in retaliation for their cooperation in investigations into your actions.
And this seems to be a pattern. You refuse to take any personal responsibilities, and you attack others for doing their jobs.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:47 amThe “peter principle” working its magic again.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:52 am“Lead, Follow, or get out the way”. Thank you for getting out of the way Lurita.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:54 amI trust her new employer did a background check and took her frigging fingerprints while they were at it.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:55 amLeadership…easy to say, easy to spell,
July 25th, 2008 at 10:56 ambut Lurita Doan should go straight to Hell.
“…’leadership that doesn’t work.’”
Leave it to the morons to find the oxy. If it doesn’t work it is not “leadership” by definition. If there is no leadership it is due to the ineffective and/or incompetent fool professing to be a leader which is typical in all of bushco and the bushco obsequious sycophants.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:57 amCaption:
Damnit, I PAID for those cookies myself!’
July 25th, 2008 at 11:01 amAs Ellsworth Toohey has pointed out, there is a much greater pool of mediocre, grasping, credibility-challenged insecure stooges to choose from than there are qualified, competent employees.
If you’re crooked and looking to fudge, commit graft and undermine established rules, which pool offers you the wider selection of ‘qualified’ individuals over whom you can hold leverage and thieve to your bank account’s content? If you populate a government with as many of those mediocre idioti as you can bribe, blackmail and extort, they begin to look like the norm and not the exception that the founders were angling for with their bit of declarative rights-making.
Just look at how most corporations “work;” whistleblowers, however correct and supportive of the defined company objectives that their cases are, are always ostracized for their loyalty to the corporation’s stated policies. The honesty of the whistleblower is always regarded as less valuable than the ability of the mediocre, grasping stooge to see the *wink* between the lines of the corporate “credo.”
July 25th, 2008 at 11:03 amTHINK PROGRESS: WHERE IS THE STORY ON IMPEACHMENT? WHY IS THERE NO MENTION ON THIS WEBSITE OF CONGRESSMAN KUCINICH’S EFFORTS TODAY BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE? WHY?
July 25th, 2008 at 11:09 amThis is why impeachment and prosecution are important. Doan is a criminal, albeit a pathetic and petty one. If we neglect impeachment and allow these clowns to recede into the background, they will come back in the future (as Cheney and Rumsfield have done) to continue the damage they’ve started. The disaster of 2000 - 2008 was made possible by the Ford pardon and our willingness to drop investigations and ‘make up’ for the sake of ‘national unity’.
If we have not begun impeachment by the end of Bush’s term, we will see a flood of blanket pardons as excessive as any of the manifold excesses of the past 8 years.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:14 amAnd so she is still being paid by the taxpayers. Doesn’t anybody have any shame any more?
July 25th, 2008 at 11:20 amI heard there were cookies being served in this thread.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:25 amDoan showed her leadership inabilities while serving Bush and not the people. Consider who will recieve the benefit of her advice and an-lysis (to get past the moderation screen), the customers of Federal News Service:
The FNS customer base, which was originally composed of a small number of news media companies, now includes most major U.S. and foreign newspapers and news services, world-wide broadcast media, U.S. government agencies, foreign embassies, U.S. embassies worldwide, corporations, lobbyists, universities and associations.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:25 amShe holds a valuable position for the neo-con machine. Out of the public eye but in an influential position in a global media theatre, where she can spread the mis-information and spin. Slick work, repug pukes.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:35 amIt’s amazing that criminals like Doan can find a job whereas this country goes jobless. Bush’s United Snakes: Land of the thieves. Home of the slaves.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:24 pmSeems like all the Bush Neo-Fascist Cronies get a shot at media pundit spots when their “public” service ends. Amazing how the liberal media is so complicit with these monstrous unAmerican creatures. And BTW, the Conyers Rules of Impeachment hearings are being pretty much TOTALLY IGNORED by the media outlets. CSPAN is covering them but Yahoo News on its politics page had a headline story from Capitol Hill…Richard Simmons defending P.E. classes!!!! Conyers’ hearing ignored.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:18 pmgood to see Lurita “I really, really can’t remember” Doan back in the public eye, brings back many hilariously destructive wingnut memories.
i hear she and Kathrine Harris are vying for McCains vice president slot.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:44 pmFederal News Center? And they put Doan on as a commentator.
Gosh I hate to be a bore. Here goes. I remember when newspapers and news sources used to exist to serve and inform. Now froth has replaced hard news. And the media have no duty to readers. I also remember when Reagan dropped kicked the fairness doctrine into the toilet along with Clinton and his telecommunications act. Now reporters follow one bottom law, the law of corporate financial and political success. And these same corporate reporters report very little of consequence. And still they delude themselves that they serve some higher purpose. Reporters now check the stock market to see the newspapers financial health. Meaning their own. They serve only themselves. Doran being hired after her real talent for doing nothing, puts paid to the thought this organization could be legitimate.
Like the movie says. “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” What the media communicates relates more to dumbing down, trivia, and a frustrating lack of journalistic objectivity. Self serving, lazy corporate neocons. Don’t let anyone tell you we have a free press, or a liberal press.
The term liberal was made dirty by Reagan. And the Republicans confiscated the word along with everything else. Now the media is accused of being liberal. But ONLY if they write something that deviates even slightly from the right wing talk. I don’t know why they worry about an occasional lapse into some truth. It doesn’t happen often.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:42 pm