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October 03, 2005
The Crony Ways
Cronyism runs both ways, you know. You pick your buddies, they pick themselves. I help you, I help me, you help me, I help me.
The current supreme court nominee, whose dazzling accomplishments include being a city council member in Dallas, had been "leading the White House effort to help Bush choose nominees to the Supreme Court."
Remind you of anyone?
Dick Cheney, of course, who had been leading the vice-presidential search for the Bush campaign back in 2000 before he came back to nominate himsef -- a move apparently described, with admiration as "'the most Machiavellian fucking thing I’ve ever seen" by Cheney's "longtime friend Stuart Spencer.'"
It's all pretty funny if these guys weren't running the world, with their fingers on nucler triggers and all.
Posted by zeynep at October 3, 2005 05:01 PM
Comments
Frightening isn't it? Just frightening. Here in England we have a government which is trying to opt out of the European Human Rights Convention so we can deport people to countries which routinely use torture, and which wants to lock up people for 3-months on a whim. That's scary too.
Also, you Americans are going to have lots of fingers in our nuclear pie when we sell BNFL to an American company. What's your take on this? I'm rather worried. It just seems to have horrible implications for the environment, the independence of our country from US policy plus more.
Posted by: Synt at October 4, 2005 07:49 PM