There is a long article today in the Boston Globe about Monica Goodling and all of the graduates of Pat Robertson's law school who are members of the Bush administration. Regent University is considered not very academically serious, but they had an in of course. The head of Regent's government school was picked as the head of the Office of Personnel Management for the executive branch, meaning that they were in charge of hiring decisions for the Bush administration in the thousands of executive branch jobs that needed to be filled. Here is a little highlight.
Many of those who have Regent law degrees, including Goodling, joined the Department of Justice. Their path to employment was further eased in late 2002, when John Ashcroft , then attorney general, changed longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks.
Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking top students from elite schools.
In a recent Regent law school newsletter, a 2004 graduate described being interviewed for a job as a trial attorney at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in October 2003. Asked to name the Supreme Court decision from the past 20 years with which he most disagreed, he cited Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling striking down a law against sodomy because it violated gay people's civil rights.
"When one of the interviewers agreed and said that decision in Lawrence was 'maddening,' I knew I correctly answered the question," wrote the Regent graduate . The administration hired him for the Civil Rights Division's housing section -- the only employment offer he received after graduation, he said.
Now, you get a better idea of why things happened the way they have over the past six years. It is pretty damned sad that somebody can only get a job with the executive branch when all private firms reject you on the basis that you hate homosexuals. I think it's time to look at the Civil Right's Division. If this person is an indication, they probably have their own screw ups that haven't been brought to the light of day.
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WaPo has this one too; this is huge
Trifecta, this is what i get for sleeping late. It's curiously downplayed but this story is HUGE. My favorite part (if you can use that word for something that makes your skin crawl and induces rage):
If there was ever a post on this board that deserved the "Theocracy Rising" tag, this is it. Absolutely horrifying.
What's wrong with forcing children to read Bibles in class?
After all,
Ted Haggard has bills to payotherwise a loving God will send them to Hell...No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't think you mean "fill" VL
You mean "infest."
Or at least "occupied," as an invading army...
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Welcome to the Dominion
And nice catch, it's an important post.
I realize this comment is a week late, but I've been waiting for the sound of the explosion and the fallout, but after the inital flash, nothing happened.
But you know, it's not just the Justice Department that has been filling up with these brightly smiling well scrubbed and perky fascists.
They're everywhere, from the main$tream media on down throughout the corporate infrastructure of Bu$hie's Ba$e. Driving nice new cars, talking on cells phones, spreading the Word and advocating Biblically Correct Reconstruction of the Corporate States of America. If there's no Armageddon on the agenda, by God, they'll make one all on their own.
No Hell below us
Above us, only sky
No Hell below us
Above us, only sky
there will be no flash, kelley
just a long, slow, ugly slide into irrelevance and economic depression. or so i think. democracy died in 2000 here, and the environmental crises coming will finish off the Great Society of the previous generations' dreams. i try to be a realist, and that means that i don't buy into fantasy of any kind, not the CT or bible-thumper's apocalyptic narratives. as atrios is fond of saying, life isn't "the stand" or "red dawn," it's much more complicated and unromantic than that.