Bush Bypasses Senate on 2 More Nominees

New York Times ^ | Saturday, January 12, 2002 | CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS

[Hugh Akston]

And buried under Enron, which is much ado about nothing (until one gets to the Clintons, that is), which is a desperation play by the Democrats that is going to backfire.

Did you see he pulled $34 million of money from aid to China for population control efforts (read: forced abortions)? The legislation passed set a maximum dollar amount but not a minimum, and Bush said "I appreciate the flexibility they put into the legislation" and put the whole amount on hold? lol

[Mark de New Brighton]

Seeking to end a months-long stalemate, President Bush used a backdoor procedure to appoint two nominees to high-ranking positions in the State and Labor Departments today after they had failed to win Senate approval.

What's in bold is the bald-faced lie in this article, of course. Neither Scalia nor Reich failed to win Senate approval. Neither had an opportunity to get Senate approval because the Senate wouldn't schedule a vote.

All it seems that the NYT is doing right now is removing the letterhead from the DNC press releases. Makes it a lot easier, I s'pose.

[sneakypete]

Add Chris Dodd to the list.

You have to admit it's pretty funny to see Chris Dodd questioning the ethics of ANYBODY else. Especially when you consider his Senator father was paying him 20+ grand per year for a "no-show" job while he was in college.

[thucydides]

Scalia was politically incorrect on the "repetitive motion stress" article of faith required by the democrats' union bosses. This was to be the vehicle for unionization of workers with computers, an area where unions have had no success organizing. Extensive studies have shown it to be nonsense, yet the unions had hoped to have the government lend some credence to the matter.

[Brett66]

I think Bush is engaging in strategic calculation when he acts nice towards Kennedy. It plays well to undecideds to see him "reaching out", it's still pretty disgusting to watch though.

[goldstategop]

It got buried in the next to last and back page of the L.A Slimes here. The front page led with a slam by the paper's liberal political analyst Ronald Brownstein of how damaging the Enron (he conveniently omitted mention that the Rats hands are even deeper in the mess) non-affair is to the Bush Administration's image by citing how it shows the President's closeness to corporate and energy interests at the expense of the little guy. It must frustrate the liberal media the recess appointments angle bombed so they're hoping against hope that somehow may be Enron will stick. That's what Brownstein is hoping will happen. So if any one thinks the press's animus towards this Preident disappeared with Sept. 11th better think again. They're just getting started and will stop at nothing to help the Rats bring him down.