How to lose a country in seven easy steps
May 26, 2005 | 1:38 PM ET |
OK, let’s take this step by step, lest we be accused of sounding shrill, ideological or just plain out of our respective minds.
Point one: The Bush administration is, as this piece in today’s Washington Post puts it, working to “consolidate influence in a small circle of Republicans and to marginalize dissenting voices that would try to impede a conservative agenda.” Here are some of the inescapable details: The campaign to prevent the Senate filibuster of the president's judicial nominations was simply the latest and most public example of similar transformations in Congress and the executive branch stretching back a decade. The common theme is to House Republicans, for instance, discarded the seniority system and limited the independence and prerogatives of committee chairmen. [...] Read it all at MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7954027/#050526 or http://tinyurl.com/cydge
© Virginia Metze
OK, let’s take this step by step, lest we be accused of sounding shrill, ideological or just plain out of our respective minds.
Point one: The Bush administration is, as this piece in today’s Washington Post puts it, working to “consolidate influence in a small circle of Republicans and to marginalize dissenting voices that would try to impede a conservative agenda.” Here are some of the inescapable details: The campaign to prevent the Senate filibuster of the president's judicial nominations was simply the latest and most public example of similar transformations in Congress and the executive branch stretching back a decade. The common theme is to House Republicans, for instance, discarded the seniority system and limited the independence and prerogatives of committee chairmen. [...] Read it all at MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7954027/#050526 or http://tinyurl.com/cydge
© Virginia Metze
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