Gonzales must resign now. "Mistakes were made."

I just have one question before he's sworn in... Can he keep a file?

You have to picture Joe with a twinkle in his eye when you read his political postings.

Well bud, if you thought anyone would seriously suggest "Brownie" as the new AG, your load is exceptionally heavier than mine.

Well, Snood, who coulda imagined that anyone would seriously suggest "Brownie" as the head of FEMA, .....

Dr. Eric J. Keroack is an American non-board certified obstetrician-gynecologist.[1]

In late 2006, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to oversee the federal family planning program of the United States. Bush appointed Keroack deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, the office that oversees federally funded teenage pregnancy, family planning, and abstinence programs, using its $283 million annual budget.[2]

The nomination of Keroack, an anti-contraceptive advocate, to a position responsible for ensuring low-income women get access to birth control has been criticized.[3][4][5]

The Massachusetts native has faced criticism before, after making the claim that sex with multiple partners hurts women's ability to bond by altering their brain chemistry.[6] He claims that premarital sex suppresses the hormone oxytocin, thereby impairing one's ability to forge a successful long-term relationship.[7]

Before assuming his new position on Monday, November 20, 2006, Keroack was the medical director of A Woman's Concern, a Christian nonprofit organization based in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It runs six centers in the state that offer free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds and counseling and works to "help women escape the temptation and violence of abortion." Its crisis pregnancy centers oppose contraception and do not distribute information concerning birth control.[2]

The Associated Press reported on March 29, 2007 that Dr. Keroack resigned his position at HHS in response to unspecified actions taken against him by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Office of Medicaid.[8]

A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has repeatedly altered scientific field reports to minimize protections for imperiled species and disclosed confidential information to private groups seeking to affect policy decisions, the department's inspector general concluded.
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The IG noted that MacDonald "admitted that her degree is in civil engineering and that she has no formal educational background in natural sciences" but repeatedly instructed Fish and Wildlife scientists to change their recommendations on identifying "critical habitats," despite her lack of expertise.

The thing is, we guffaw and carry on about it, but don't actually do anything to affect these appointments. We get what we deserve until we actually DO something about it.

Bush's long history of politicizing justice
It's not only the U.S. attorneys who are threatened by partisan politics. Since Day One, the Bush administration has been quietly dismantling the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

By Alia Malek

March 30, 2007 | The current U.S. attorneys scandal shows that the Bush administration was mistaken in its belief that it could politicize the nation's top federal law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, with impunity. The attorney general's chief of staff and the director of the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys have both had to leave their jobs, and Congress has begun grilling DOJ leadership. But having decimated another entire sector of the DOJ in plain sight for six years with little consequence, is it any wonder the Bush White House figured nobody would miss a few prosecutors?

Since George Bush took office, his administration has been not so quietly dismantling the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which is responsible for enforcing the nation's civil rights laws, and doing it for the same reason the eight federal prosecutors were fired: to use the enforcement power of the federal government for Republican gain. Instead of attending to the Civil Rights Division's historic mission, addressing the legacy of slavery by enforcing anti-discrimination laws, the Bush administration has employed the division to advance the political agenda of a key GOP constituency, the Christian right and also, quite literally, to get Republicans elected.

Over the last six years, this Justice Department has ignored the advice of its staff and skewed aspects of law enforcement in ways that clearly were intended to influence the outcome of elections.

It has notably shirked its legal responsibility to protect voting rights. From 2001 to 2006, no voting discrimination cases were brought on behalf of African American or Native American voters. U.S. attorneys were told instead to give priority to voter fraud cases, which, when coupled with the strong support for voter ID laws, indicated an intent to depress voter turnout in minority and poor communities.

In March 2006, Bradley Schlozman was appointed interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo. Two weeks earlier, the administration was granted the authority to make such indefinite appointments without Senate confirmation. That was too bad: A Senate hearing might have uncovered Schlozman's central role in politicizing the civil rights division during his three-year tenure....

Missouri had one of the closest Senate races in the country last November, and a week before the election, Schlozman brought four voter fraud indictments against members of an organization representing poor and minority people. This blatantly contradicted the department's long-standing policy to wait until after an election to bring such indictments because a federal criminal investigation might affect the outcome of the vote. The timing of the Missouri indictments could not have made the administration's aims more transparent.

Are you willing to serve a duly legal subpoena to members of the Executive branch, capture them, and bring them before the Congress in order to testify under oath?