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White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting
An anonymous reader writes "Time Magazine is reporting that the Bush Administration is removing U.S. delegates from the Inter-American Telephone Commission because they gave money to John Kerry in last year's election. A Bush spokesman admits it's true: 'We wanted people who would represent the Administration positively, and--call us nutty--it seemed like those who wanted to kick this Administration out of town last November would have some difficulty doing that,' says White House spokesman Trent Duffy. Employees of Qualcomm and Nokia are among those who have been removed from the commission."
Golly, the president doesn't want his rivals representing him. Oh, for shame.
Sounds like much ado about nothing if you ask me.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
The risk of dissent against the current administration far outweights any value "experts" or "scientists" can bring to the table. Republican zealots have faith in the current leadership, literal faith, belief without reason, and facts that contradict the party line must be false.
People who disagree with the party line must be purged (even if they're highly valuable Arabic translators or CIA operatives) and those who tow the line are rewarded beyond their level of competence (Rice, Bolton).
We see this in how they treat science regarding stem cells, reproductive rights, evolution, and the environment. They routinely squash or discredit government funded science that contradicts their orthodoxy. Considering that they they're fighting long established scientfic and political reality (evolution and Marbury vs. Madison come to mind) it shouldn't surprise anybody that they'd exclude some telco paper pushers who might upset their love fest.
Of course one day reality will assert itself and they'll have to face the music. I'm just hoping it doesn't cost a few million lives.
-dameron
People who think CITEL meetings are non-political in nature need to attend Clue 101 classes. These technical decisions represet billions in revenue, and it's all political.
And stop whining...it's getting old. You can't cry fascist everytime Chimpy McBushitler picks Whataburger over Burger King. Grow up.
Oh, and if you want to decide who gets to represent the Executive branch, try winning an election.
Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!
Now that they control all three branches of government and have the press cowed, why do you think they're ever going to let a non-Republican majority arise again? One "terrorist" attack on DC and you can have a perpetual nation-wide "state of emergency" with niceties such as elections postponed indefinitely. All they have to do is keep this up for ~50 years and no one left will remember there ever was another party. Did I say 50? With our American attention spans, more like 20.
That is all.
OK, I think the person that rated me "redundant" doesn't know what that word means.
I'd like the moderation scheme, if it weren't BLINDINGLY STUPID.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!