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Mitch McConnell Watch
Via War and Piece, from today’s Washington Post: GSA Chief Is Accused of Playing Politics:
Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove’s political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier this year with top GSA political appointees, who discussed ways to help Republican candidates.
With GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan and up to 40 regional administrators on hand, J. Scott Jennings, the White House’s deputy director of political affairs, gave a PowerPoint presentation on Jan. 26 of polling data about the 2006 elections.
When Jennings concluded his presentation to the GSA political appointees, Doan allegedly asked them how they could “help ‘our candidates’ in the next elections,” according to a March 6 letter to Doan from Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
…On Wednesday, Doan is scheduled to appear before Waxman’s committee to answer questions about the videoconference and other issues. The committee is investigating whether remarks made during the videoconference violated the Hatch Act, a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using their positions for political purposes. Those found in violation of the act do not face criminal penalties but can be removed from their jobs.
And who is this J. Scott Jennings:
Jennings’s name has recently surfaced in investigations of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys around the country. He communicated with Justice Department officials concerning the appointment of Tim Griffin, a former Rove aide, as U.S. attorney in Little Rock, according to e-mails released this month. For that exchange, Jennings, although working at the White House, used an e-mail account registered to the Republican National Committee, where Griffin had worked as a political opposition researcher.
Jennings is a longtime political operative from Kentucky. He served as political director for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2002 before joining the White House
Ah, a good old Kentucky boy. I’m so proud.
Here’s another little thing I was about McConnell this morning, via Huffington Post:
You probably didn’t notice it (since readers of The Crypt have actual lives), but late Friday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to get Senate Republicans to allow former Vice President Al Gore to stage a global warming concert on Capitol grounds. But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected to Reid’s request, and the resolution authorizing the concert, for now, remains stuck in the Rules and Administration Committee.
Addendum: $27 million anti-evolution museum to open soon
PETERSBURG –
Tyrannosaurus rex was a strict vegetarian, and lived with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.There were dinosaurs of every kind aboard Noah’s ark. Some dinosaurs managed to hang around until just a few hundred years ago. The legend of St. George slaying the dragon? That probably was a dinosaur.
Exhibits showing all this and more will be at the Creation Museum, a $27 million religious showcase nearing completion in Northern Kentucky.
I am so embarrassed.
On the other hand, I don’t think Mitch McConnell had anything to do with this, so I guess the man has one virtue anyway.
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2 Comments
1. Tommy replies at 27th March 2007, 9:34 am :
Okay, that’s the Creation Museum, not the Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, FL. The Dinosaur Adventure Land park was run by “Dr.” Kent Hovind, who’s now serving 10 years on 58 counts of tax evasion. He’s the first person I think of when I hear about a Creation Museum.
The one you’re talking about is run by Answers in Genesis, an altogether different (yet somehow still the same) beast. None of them can satisfactorily answer the question, “If T. rex was a vegetarian, how come he needed all those 6-inch, razor-sharp teeth?” without invoking some post-creation alteration by God. The appearance of carnivores is generally explained as a result of the Fall of Man. Somehow YHWH saw fit to punish perfectly innocent creatures because of something Adam and Eve did.
OK, lecture time’s over. Sorry to take up so much space. This whole thing just irritates me.
2. sherry replies at 27th March 2007, 10:19 am :
A vegetarian T-Rex sure would put a crimp in Steven Spielberg’s rope, nicht wahr? And yes, it is annoying. But it’s also dangerous, I think. We’re raising a whole generation of children to believe that science is optional.
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