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- neognostic, on 07/28/2008, -10/+87One of the first things Obama should do when he is sworn in as President, is to fire each and everyone of these political hacks hired by the current Administration. Then hire people based upon talent, not politics.
- DavidYeah, on 07/28/2008, -7/+52I want everyone to remember this Goodling character after the next terrorist strike, and that look on her face after its revisited that she turned down one of the top counter terrorism prosecuters in the country because of politics. Personally, it's going to be all I'll be talking about.
- morningmatters, on 07/28/2008, -7/+42The whole concept of "Permanent GOP majority" has driven many political hacks blind. It makes you wonder just how did someone like Goodling, who came from a 3rd rate school with barely any experience was able to reach such high ranks within the Justice Department.
- swrostmore, on 07/28/2008, -7/+38If DoJ hirings were illegally partisan political, doesn't it beg the question about their firing practices?
And if their firing practices were illegally partisan political, why is Karl Rove refusing to testify under oath about his involvement? Oh wait, I think I answered my own question. - Morchades, on 07/28/2008, -2/+30The right wing will have a field day trashing him no matter what he does. But the honest truth is these people are INCOMPETENT, and in all likelihood Obama would replace them with a mixture of qualified people from across the spectrum. (There were Republicans and former Republicans speaking in favor of impeaching Bush on Friday's hearing, there are conservatives out there who know how to conserve the Constitution.)
- Insightful, on 07/28/2008, -2/+24Exactly. For a long time during this administration, Regent University and its School of Law was boasting that it has more of its graduates working at the White House than another other university.
Tell me, if you are looking for a lawyer, would you get one from Harvard or from Regent - where the six year bar passage rate was 58% vs state-wide of 74%?
While Bush was in office, the White House is running on a 8 year political campaign - replacing capable people at EPA, NASA, Justice Department with people with no experience, no expertise, but political connections.
These people need to be fired and prosecuted ASAP. Obama is not perfect but he is a step in the right direction. - delrin500, on 07/28/2008, -0/+19That is easy, when you want to do underhanded stuff you get a dumb, naive and unexperienced person and put them in charge to blame everything on when its all over.
- SOS84, on 07/28/2008, -4/+21Yeah, and Republicans are better on national security. If you still were stupid enough to believe that nonsense after Cheney outed a covert CIA operative, perhaps they will now understand how wrong they are.
- swrostmore, on 07/28/2008, -0/+15@IPublius:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
Prohibits partisan political activity by elected officials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_Reform_ ...
prohibits discriminating in civil service employment based on political affiliation - chrisk9, on 07/28/2008, -1/+15Hmmm... what a surprise. Monica Goodling comes from the school founded by evangelical Pat Robertson (Regent University).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_University#Uni ...
Another neo-con fascist evangelical incompetent in government care of the Bush administration. - glucoseboy, on 07/28/2008, -0/+13Exactly, The W Bush white house has put "love of party" ahead of "love of country"
- Jimmerz, on 07/28/2008, -2/+15They all did it at the beginning of their terms, standard operating procedure. Idiot.
- DavidYeah, on 07/28/2008, -1/+13Are you being obtuse?
Are you really going to try to sell us this poorly copy/pasted blog entry from somewhere as a serious argument?
Aid and comfort, blah blah blah. That argument is so 2004.
Socialized medicine is unAmerican? HOW? I guess that would mean the roads that you drive on are unAmerican, and the mail system you deliver mail through is unAmerican too. When you drive on roads, you're driving on the same socialized system that you're bashing. I can't find a rational reason for why universal medicine wouldn't be a great idea, given that every industrialized nation in the world has it except us, and it works fine for them.
Oh and while you're responding, do you care to tell us how not hiring top quality terror prosecutors based on political leanings is somehow as ProUSA as you claim to be? You didn't exactly address the real issue, you just posted some crap from a blog somewhere. - thesonofdarwin, on 07/28/2008, -1/+12Most experience doesn't equal most competence. Are you new to the world?
- yeagersauce, on 07/28/2008, -6/+16what a disgrace.
- hawkeye17, on 07/28/2008, -0/+10All of those responsible for this disgrace should be immediately disbarred. Goodling was acting more like a Nazi than an American.
- swrostmore, on 07/28/2008, -2/+12"I do not recall any law stating you can't discriminate against somebody because of their political affiliations."
It's called the Civil Service Reform Act. - Insightful, on 07/28/2008, -0/+9So the GOP has it’s own ‘Monica’ now!
The difference is that Monica Lewinsky gave the President a private blowjob whereas Monica Goodling illegally f**ked the entire country’s legal system! - thal3s, on 07/28/2008, -0/+9Please explain, with citations how the Iraq War has anything to do with our safety in America.
Maybe you didn't know this already but the Downing Street memos and Scott McClellan (among a hundred different sources) say that we were lied into the war and the evidence was fabricated from before 9/11 even happened.
Also, you might want to notice that 19 of the 20 hijackers were Saudi (bush kisses the royal family ever year, BTW), and that it was the TALIBAN who attacked us, not Saddam.
Bad troll, no biscuit. - mrswirl, on 07/28/2008, -0/+9I don't want to be mistaken for a troll but let me remind everyone that it is common practice for incoming administrations to sweep the departments of all political appointees from prior administrations - such as the Attorney Generals positions.
What Goodling did was of far greater consequence because it went beyond just typical political appointees to affect the hiring and firing of career civil servant positions which are usually considered 'apolitical'. - zephc, on 07/28/2008, -0/+9Buried you for being a neocon knob gobbler.
- synthpop, on 07/28/2008, -1/+9how else would you expect Republicans to get jobs?
not much you can do with a degree from that Pat Robertson school of law.. - swrostmore, on 07/28/2008, -1/+9I suggest you read Chapter 2 Section 5 of the OIG Report (cited on thinkprogress.org) if you are actually interested in learning about the legal background here, which I highly doubt.
- mweber02, on 07/28/2008, -0/+8You sound like a partisan hack that likes to wrap his rhetoric in the flag. So if the President subverts the Constitution by declaring war in lieu of Congress, lets his war profiteer buddies plunder our treasury and send us spiraling into debt, anyone who opposes that is unpatriotic? ProUSA my ass.
Oh and by the way, it was the ultra right-wing of the Republican party that armed the mujahadeen, which spawned al-Qaeda. How's that for aid and comfort of the enemy? - DavidYeah, on 07/28/2008, -3/+11First of all, it was the husband of the Democrat that she was vetoing the hire of.
Also, the person who did get hired did not even have the minimum five years of prosecution experience, and was underqualified . Give me a break.
What's your response to the fact that someone was vetoed because they were gay?
"Lets see how low the diggs can go...."
Oh good, so you already know how wrong you are. Rock bottom, is where I'd say you're going. - MrHateMan, on 07/28/2008, -0/+8hmmm... Your views do not represent my America. Leads me to the conclusion that you do not know what "American" is.
- dezholling, on 07/28/2008, -0/+7No administration has shown this level of political corruption at the DOJ before. So while normally I would agree with you, this is most definitely a special circumstance.
- urgeigh, on 07/28/2008, -0/+7No *****.. how many actual convictions have their been in relation to terrorism since 9/11? I'd be willing to bet it's somewhere between 0 and 1.
- sb66, on 07/28/2008, -0/+7thanks for taking time from posting on stormfront.org to visit us.
lol must be a troll or....yikes. - mrswirl, on 07/28/2008, -0/+6Political appointees - yes.
Career civil servants - no.
RTFA - inactive, on 07/28/2008, -0/+6 Look like the Republicans found their Scape Goats.
- elfprince13, on 07/28/2008, -0/+6I'm sure Cheney is very talented or he wouldn't have wormed his way so far up the chain of command. don't want him in ANY office again ;)
- kipperBugg, on 07/28/2008, -3/+9Monica Goodling and the rest of these thungs should be put against a wall and shot for the damage they have done to our country. I will volunteer to be part of the firing squard.
- stonebone4, on 07/28/2008, -11/+17What a dummy, doesn't she know that Republicans and Democrats are the same thing?
- delrin500, on 07/28/2008, -4/+10The disgrace is that the report shows that Alberto's assistants did everything and specifically Goodling the only with immunity. That is complete and total crap; there a real surprise blame everything on the one person they can't prosecute.
- DavidYeah, on 07/28/2008, -2/+7Oh you mean it's BAD when people are hired based on skill, not political whims? It's BAD when qualified people of the opposite party are not hired and instead someone who is underqualified is hired instead? If the Democrats know that we're watching their every move like we are the Republicans, they have nothing to worry about.
- Pstmann, on 07/28/2008, -0/+5Who cares what right wing websites will run! They are going to trash anyone that doesn't bow to their way of thinking anyway. We really need to stand up and reverse the travesty of the last 8 years, not cower in the corner hoping the bullies will stop beating us up.
- DavidYeah, on 07/28/2008, -0/+5Yeah, but when you're a political party hack, it's just the brand name she's loyal to. There's hierarchy in political parties, and I guarantee that no matter what damage she has done to our justice system, there's a cushy job waiting for her for her to land in where "off the record", she'll be greatly rewarded for her part in trying to keep the party in power. That's the point of such insane devotion to the party... pushing your own interest by pleasing the party elders, who have some serious connections.
- duckley, on 07/28/2008, -0/+5AND
Prosecute EVERY SINGLE Cheney-Bush crony, convict them for EACH crime, and have them sentenced to sequential prison terms totalling 10,000 years each.
Even that is not enough. - Pstmann, on 07/28/2008, -0/+5The fact that you find it to be perfectly sound is the exact reason it is not and would be rejected by most intelligent citizens.
- apothekari, on 07/28/2008, -0/+5While you are correct in a sense...
***** EM!
The American people need to vote against the incumbent over and over and over again regardless of party affiliation for the next 2 or 3 elections and do it again when these asshats stop listening to us.
If enough voters did this and
If they had to fear for their ***** job the way I do on a day to day basis it would bring their ***** in line toot sweet! - mrcoderga, on 07/29/2008, -0/+5Maybe people like this political operative and the others like her in the DOJ were the reason the FBI failed to prevent September 11 2001.
Can you handle it?
To you Bush lovers:
What would you be saying right now if a Democratic president was in office during 9/11? - swrostmore, on 07/28/2008, -1/+6@mrswirl, the 8 US Attorneys scandal is unrelated - nobody has alleged their firing was based on party affiliation. The allegation was that they were fired in order to interfere with politically inconvenient investigations, and/or due to their failure to bring politically convenient prosecutions. This would, if proven, be a violation of the Hatch act, which prohibits partisan political activity by civil servants, as well as obstruction of justice and laws related to interfering with an election.
What Goodling did was illegal because discrimination based on political affiliation is prohibited by the Civil Service Reform Act. - swrostmore, on 07/28/2008, -2/+7What part of "THIS ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT THE FIRING OF US ATTORNEYS" did you not understand?
The article you are commenting on without reading is about the Department of Justice illegally using partisan affiliations as hiring criteria for career, NONPOLITICAL, positions. - SethEllis, on 07/28/2008, -2/+6Baseball steroids? Yeah that's exactly what we need our government doing is regulating professional sports. We can't have them out doing things like trying to fix the economy or lower the price of gas. All they would do is screw things up even more.
- mrswirl, on 07/28/2008, -1/+5Let us compare that prior to winning the Presidency in 2000, the ONLY public office GWB ever held was that as Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Barack Obama served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 before being elected US Senator in 2005. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
The only talent GWB has is he was fortunate enough to have 'Bush' as his last name. - swrostmore, on 07/28/2008, -1/+5You idiot, this is from a report from the Bush-appointed Inspector General. And we all know that Bush doesn't appoint Democrats.
- djHBRD, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4Roosevelt? Kennedy? Truman?
I know people hated Truman while he was in office, but he couldn't have been *that* bad. - tomarocco, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4...but there have been plenty of executions!!!
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