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Joe Lieberman On Dry Powder Mountain

http://www.opm.gov/news/bios/director.asp

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19590

“The head of the White House Office of Personnel was Kay Coles James, a former dean of Pat Robertson’s Regent University and a former vice-president of Gary Bauer’s Family Research Council,[2] the conservative Christian lobbying group that had been set up as the Washington branch of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family. She knew whom to put where, or knew the religious right people who knew. An evangelical was in charge of placing evangelicals throughout the bureaucracy. The head lobbyist for the Family Research Council boasted that “a lot of FRC people are in place” in the administration.[3] The evangelicals knew which positions could affect their agenda, whom to replace, and whom they wanted appointed. This was true for the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, and Health and Human Services—agencies that would rule on or administer matters dear to the evangelical causes.[4]

The White House was alive with piety. Evangelical leaders were in and out on a regular basis. There were Bible study groups in the White House, as in John Ashcroft’s Justice Department. Over half of the White House staff attended the meetings. One of the first things David Frum heard when he went to work there as a speech writer was: “Missed you at the Bible study.”[5] According to Esther Kaplan:

Aside from Rove and Cheney, Bush’s inner circle are all deeply religious. [Condoleezza] Rice is a minister’s daughter, chief of staff Andrew Card is a minister’s husband, Karen Hughes is a church elder, and head speechwriter Michael Gerson is a born-again evangelical, a movement insider.[6]

Other parts of the administration were also pious, with religious services during the lunch hour at the General Services Administration.[7]”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..93_pf.html

LS @ 85

Here is something Mr. LS just clued me into and it bears checking out for sure. He is listening to a Frontline program called “the lost year in Iraq” on the computer. In it, Rajiv Chandrasekaran states that potential employees of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq were vetted by the White House Liaison to the Pentagon! The potential employees were asked what their religious affiliations were, what their views on the death penalty was, what their view on Roe vs Wade was…in order to be hired.

Who is the Rovian “Goodling” plant in the Pentagon????????

IIRC, it is John O’Beirne, husband of Kate O’Beirne, aka Ol’ 60 Grit and punditress not so extraordinaire…

Is it legal????

Here is something Mr. LS just clued me into and it bears checking out for sure. He is listening to a Frontline program called “the lost year in Iraq” on the computer. In it, Rajiv Chandrasekaran states that potential employees of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq were vetted by the White House Liaison to the Pentagon! The potential employees were asked what their religious affiliations were, what their views on the death penalty was, what their view on Roe vs Wade was…in order to be hired.

Who is the Rovian “Goodling” plant in the Pentagon????????

IIRC, it is John O’Beirne, husband of Kate O’Beirne, aka Ol’ 60 Grit and punditress not so extraordinaire…

Damned volcano ruined everything.

Who is the Rovian “Goodling” plant in the Pentagon????????

Paris gives much credence to the Bill Gates comments about not leaving his children with great wealth.

Does anyone believe that I.Lewis Libby will actually serve 30 months? If that judge insists upon Libby beginning his sentence while the appeal pends (as he should)then Georgie has a touchy decision to make. I assumed that the plan was to have the appeal stretch out as far as possible and pardon Libby on Bushs’ way out of office.

Now it seems that Scooter might actually have to serve some real time, heck even a year or more, unless Bush says “heck my numbers are in the toilet anyway, so why not screw them all and pardon Libby up front?”

Scooter pardon on 12/24/2008