Looks like we’re coming into rewards season at the White House for longtime Bush loyalists. Of course, we thought that’s what the last seven year were about, but we digress.
Apparently, being named as a criminal co-conspirator in Articles of Impeachment is worthy of a prize from this particular White House, as Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc.’s self-proclaimed “non-partisan” “longtime voting rights advocate” — and not-self-proclaimed national champion GOP vote-suppressor Thor Hearne — received yet another thank you gift from the White House today: A non-partisan appointment to a “non-partisan Commission” (according to the nationally renowned liar Thor) by George W. Bush.
Jo Mannies of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the few reporters Thor will answer the phone for (other than those at “liberal media” outlets such as NYTimes, NPR, USA Today and again at USA Today) writes today, while failing to note Hearne’s infamous entry into the history books on the floor of the U.S. House this week…
President George W. Bush on Tuesday announced that he was naming St. Louis lawyer Mark F. Hearne II — more commonly known in these parts as “Thor Hearne” – to the Commission on White House Fellows.
The commission selects the dozen or so fellows, who according to the White House Web site “typically spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants” to top government officials.
Hearne said in an e-mail this afternoon, “It is a great opportunity to serve on a non-partisan Commission with a number of great national business and political leaders.”
Hearne, a lawyer, is a prominent Republican activist who has used his legal expertise to assist the Bush administration and to press for state and federal election-related legislation — such as photo ID requirements — that Republicans say would prevent fraud.
In 2000, for example, he was involved in the successful GOP court fight to counter Democratic legal efforts to keep the polls open in the city of St. Louis for an additional three hours.
For those unfamiliar with the snake-oil peddler Hearne — who has pushed disenfranchising Photo ID polling place restrictions across the country, via his now-defunct “non-partisan” criminal GOP front-group “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR) — you can see an index of The BRAD BLOG’s years-long outing and reporting on his anti-American, anti-democracy activities right here.
Hearne also made news this week, though Mannies did not report it, by being named in one of Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) 35 Articles of Impeachment filed against George W. Bush on Monday. Finally receiving the infamous recognition that Hearne so richly deserves, his name and his ACVR outfit were ignominiously included in Article 29, “Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965” as follows:
DISCLOSURE: The BRAD BLOG was consulted by Kucinich concerning Bush’s various High Crimes and Misdemeanors having to do with elections prior to his filing of the articles. The material in Article 29, and also Article 28, “Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice,” was based in part on the material we submitted to the Ohio Congressman who, almost alone in Congress (along with Robert Wexler of Florida), seems to understand his conservative sworn duty to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. That would include both Bush and Hearne, of course.
The BRAD BLOG congratulates Thor on both of his two infamous points of recognition this week, as well as spending yet another week not yet in federal prison!
A couple of questions:
1. Is there a list of the traitorous Democrats who’ve voted to protect George W. Bush and his criminal administration from accountability?
2. Is there a list of the Democrats who have voted in favor of law and order and want to hold the criminals in the government accountable?
PLUG: I’ve just created a new website dedicated sharing the news hidden by the shameful war-profiteering mainstream media: http://www.FascistMedia.com
Here’s a list of the 17 Democrats who are trying to get Judiciary Committee hearings.
All the Democrats moved to send it to the Committee, where it is expected to be shelved, but, technically it was the right vote. It’s expected to be shelved because Pelosi won’t have it… but I say Conyers took an oath to the Constitution and it didn’t say anything about getting off the hook if your boss will take your chairmanship away from you.
ACVR THOR, Fresh dartboard with thousands of nooks and crannies. I bet he did a lot of drugs growin up. How else could all those pock marks be there? Acid bath? NOT…
ACVR (Mail Box) THOR ^^^^^