In addition to the earlier AP-reported “grossly misconstrued” response by a DoJ spokesman to John Tanner’s “minorities die first” remarks, Paul Kane at Washington Post files yet another defense of the embattled Tanner from yet another DoJ spokesman. Kale posts the entire “full-throated defense” from Brian Roehrkasse on his Capitol Briefing blog.
Even as a DoJ insider source of ours writes to say “thanks for starting the ball rolling on what may be the end of John Tanner.”
“That’s all anybody’s talking about” today, the source tells us.
Despite suggestions to the contrary, as made this week by Bush’s AG-nominee Michael Mukasey during his AG Senate confirmation hearings, things are not quite as peachy keen inside the Civil Rights Division as the Bushies would love you to believe.
“It is a constant uphill struggle against hand-picked Bush administration appointees like John Tanner,” the insider wrote, “That is why we are so often demoralized: they won’t let us do our work.”
You wouldn’t know it, of course, if you listened only to the Bush administration’s hand-picked spokesmen/deniers.
Something keeps pushing “you’re doin a heckuva job brownie” to the top of the preznit blush motto queue.
Even “childrens do learn” pales by magnitude.
No question that “Tannie” is doin’ a heckuva job.
Actually, Tanner is probably not incompetent as far as Bush is concerned. He’s doing exactly what Bush wants him to do: suppressing minority votes. Since minorities tend to vote Democratic, this helps Republicans, which is exactly what Bush wants…
“They won’t let us do our work.”
In 2002 I had a temporary editing job at the Dept of Health and Human Services when Tommy Thompson (may he rot) was Secretary of HHS. After only a few months I ended up with a spastic colon and a pattern of unprofessional behavior, about to be let go. “This has nothing to do with your job performance,” my supervisor said. “You’re a good editor. I’ll give you a positive reference.”
I know how it feels when you can’t do your work in a Bushevik organization.
Its elementary, and evidently to complicated for the Democratic leaders, to figure out…control the Justice Dept, The Supreme Court, and the Laws and the Lawyers….you control the country…and no one, especially not a bunch of spineless ill-equipped Democrats can stop you