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Originally Posted by guy44
Of course it isn't. Bush is making political viewpoints with the President an a priori requirement for a job. Just as it is wrong to deny someone a job because they are black or a woman or like the Cardinals for G-d knows why, it is absolutely against everything America stands for to fire people because they supported a different political candidate.
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Tell that to all the people that have been appointed by Bush who will get the boot in 2009.
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And the Bushies CANNOT play the "well, these guys have to represent our views accurately" card. That standard means that anyone in the federal government who doesn't support the President's reelection campaign can be penalized for that. Furthermore, it isn't as if the topics discussed at this conference were what I'd call partisan:
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Something tells me there's no Republican vs. Democrat position on those.
Yet another abuse of power from the Bushies.
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Everything now is partisan. Bush was totally correct in what he did. If it is a commision based on appointments, he doesn't have any requirement to send X number of Dems, or even approve those initially selected.