AN ANYTHING GOES, HYPER POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE?
While Monica Goodling was busy capturing attention with anticipation of her testimony and her admission that she was apparently so self-smothered with 'permanent majority', Hewitt-missionary-cum-GOP-Federalist-Society-happy-talk that she didn't even have the frame of reference to wonder whether her political screening might either be unethical, counter-productive, or illegal -- how else can one imagine that she is truthful about having crossed the line 'innocently' -- the Office of Special Counsel, a quiet little group, has concluded that Laurita Doan broke the law by being similarly enthusiastic to a fault.
A while back, the Waxman-led committee looked into the matter of GSA Administration and Bush appointee, Laurita Doan. (The GSA does centralized contracting for the US gov't).
Doan's regular lunchtime "team meeting" for non-career types was used by widgets in Rove's office to hold forth on how to target and defeat Democrats in the upcoming 2008 elections.
A report is coming that concludes that Doan's involvement, which she described as ancillary at best, was meaningful and substantive enough that she likely broke the law, the Hatch Act. Naturally, the article is concluding that the President will continue to follow his "Harvard Rules" of good governance and continue in his Special Way to restore dignity to the Office of the President, as he promised in his 2000 election campaign ... yuk, yuk.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Rovian Political Milieu Torpedoes Another Bush Appointee, Laurita Doan
