Comments on: Boxer Blasts Bushies’ Burrowing

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:16:44 +0000

That’s a terrible thought. Also do you realize how much this is going to cost US in many ways to get rid of these people? Congress could spend the next 4 years trying to uproot them all.
Nadler: http://www.gather.com/viewArti.....4977515575 wants to deny Bush the power to blanket pardon his administration. I think there must a blanket investigation into practically everyone he’s appointed also. And don’t forget the judges…never forget the judges.

We’ve already seen an exodus of scientists from America too. they’ve gone to Europe. Thanks George, ya meathead.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:27:00 +0000

It took 30 years for the Soviet Union to expel all the untrained bureaucrats that Stalin put into the Russian Academy of Science and the Scientific institutions associated with it. The ended up destroying the biological science, agricultural and genetics sections with something called Lysenkoism. The only benefit was that many of the young Russian biologists escaped to the United States (Theodosius Dobzhansky and Michael Lerner) and this sped up the end of the eugenics movement in the West. But most of the great Russian biological scientists either ended up working as trashmen, were sent to Siberia if they complained too much, or were executed for thought crimes.

Even some physicists and geologists fell into the web of recriminations…scientists tend to have a bad habit of defending other scientists against imbeciles who make decisions based on political agendas rather than the Scientific method.

My suggestion is that there be a general review of the qualifications of those in management and communication areas of these agencies. Do we really want people who believe in witchcraft and curses and “evil” as a cause of disease at the CDC? Or global warming deniers still embedded at NOAA? Or “Big Bang” deniers and those who believe the earth was created less than 10,000 years ago at NASA?

By: james

james — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:14:21 +0000

One of the big issues with the corruption-ridden Grant administration, one of the most corrupt in history, was civil service reform.

Maybe with the unions involved participating to protect real career professionals Obama’s people might be able to ask for and receive the resignations of everyone hired in the past eight years with an eye towards hiring back the real professionals that deserve the jobs and throwing the Bush chaff to the wind.

By: Nanz

Nanz — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:14:47 +0000

Any chance the existing agencies could be done away with if there is no other way, and new ones instituted staffed with people of proper training and schooling? There has to be a way to undo another Bush ratf*&k.

By: Argonaut

Argonaut — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:49:35 +0000

Wow. Another sternly worded letter. Our government is safe at last.

By: ratfood

ratfood — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:49:03 +0000

She was being a team player. Don’t think we really disagree. She wasn’t as nefarious as some in the Bush cabal but she wouldn’t get my vote for dog-catcher.

By: kittykitty

kittykitty — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:44:38 +0000

an updating list of late Bush shenanigans to keep in mind and get after folks about.

http://www.propublica.org/spec.....gulations/

By: kittykitty

kittykitty — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:42:25 +0000

or in the case of those we can’t get rid of, roach motelers.

By: Frank33

Frank33 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:41:00 +0000

I must disagree. That WITCH Whitman told the people of New York that their air was safe to breath after the 9-11 attack. Whitman and the Federal government knew the air was extremely toxic with asbestos and other horrible poisons. They deliberately deceived the people of New York. Those who had the breath the poisoned air continue to die from respiratory deseases. Whitman deserves much of the blame.

By: kittykitty

kittykitty — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:38:04 +0000

But they’re all doin such a heckuva job, bownie!