They MUST be doing it on purpose
in the War Room @ Salon:
We already know that the Bush administration has a penchant for astonishingly inappropriate government appointments (think John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz). Nevertheless, is it really the best idea to appoint a former trophy-hunting advocate as acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? Matthew J. Hogan, tapped by Bush's Interior Secretary Gale Norton for the position in a quiet announcement last Thursday, is a former lobbyist for Safari Club International -- a group whose members shoot and import leopards, antelopes, hippos, elephants, bears, and other exotic and threatened animals. And it is U.S. Fish and Wildlife that is tasked with granting or denying them their trophy hunting permits.
Next: Ken Lay appointed to head ethics division at DOJ; Kenneth Blackwell to chair the Federal Elections Commission; and Newt Gingrich to head the Commission on the Preservation of Marriage.
We already know that the Bush administration has a penchant for astonishingly inappropriate government appointments (think John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz). Nevertheless, is it really the best idea to appoint a former trophy-hunting advocate as acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? Matthew J. Hogan, tapped by Bush's Interior Secretary Gale Norton for the position in a quiet announcement last Thursday, is a former lobbyist for Safari Club International -- a group whose members shoot and import leopards, antelopes, hippos, elephants, bears, and other exotic and threatened animals. And it is U.S. Fish and Wildlife that is tasked with granting or denying them their trophy hunting permits.
Next: Ken Lay appointed to head ethics division at DOJ; Kenneth Blackwell to chair the Federal Elections Commission; and Newt Gingrich to head the Commission on the Preservation of Marriage.
posted by bluememe at 4/05/2005
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