Are these insane birthers, tea-baggers, etc. helping or hurting the Republican party?

[Filliam H. Muffman]

$tevie wrote:
Complete Bush Appointee Resignation Scorecard
February 11th, 2009

Forty-two Bush Administration appointees resigned under a cloud of controversy over the past eight years. Only now could a final tally be calculated. So many had resigned that it actually has become difficult to remember every one of them. Some were well illuminated by the mainstream media while others were just a passing blip on the political radar.
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Not all resignations are a result of impropriety and not all resignations of controversial appointees are a result of the controversy. For example, Karl Rove has number of controversies surrounding his tenure at the White House but his resignation does not appear to be related to any them. Not everyone who has resigned will be found below. I also did not list those who did resign under controversy but who were later found to have done nothing wrong. Only the resignations that were nothing but cover for being fired or attempting to escape a controversy or indictment are listed below.

Of the 42 resignations, there have been nine criminal convictions thus far.

I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby- Office of the Vice President Chief of Staff

David Safavian- Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President

J. Steven Griles- Deputy Secretary, Department of Interior

Kyle “Dusty” Foggo- CIA Executive Director

Eric Keroack- Dept. of Health & Human Services, Chief of U.S. Office of Population Affairs

Randall Tobias- Deputy Secretary of State

Kyle Sampson- Attorney General Chief of Staff

Monica Goodling- Senior Counselor to the Attorney General & Justice Department liaison to the White House

Michael Battle- Dept of Justice Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys

Paul McNulty- Deputy Attorney General

Michael Elston- Deputy Attorney General Chief of Staff

William Mercer- Associate Attorney General (Acting)

Sara Taylor- Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs at the White House

Paul Wolfowitz- World Bank President

Harvey Pitt- Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman

Julie MacDonald- Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior

Francis Harvey- Secretary of the Army

Donald Rumsfeld- Secretary of Defense

Michael Brown- Dept. of Homeland Security Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response

Alberto Gonzales- Attorney General

George Deutsch- NASA Public Affairs Officer

Susan Orr- Dept. of Health & Human Services, Chief of U.S. Office of Population Affairs

Alphonso Roy Jackson- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

William J Haynes- Department of Defense General Consul

Lester Mills Crawford- Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration

Sue Ralston- Special Assistant to the President & Assistant to Senior Advisor Karl Rove

Janet Rehnquist- Inspector General, Department of Health & Human Services

Kenneth Y. Tomlinson- Chairman, Corporation For Public Broadcasting

James Roche- Secretary of the Air Force

Philip A. Cooney- Chief of Staff, White House Council on Environmental Quality

John Korsmo- Chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board

Michelle Larson Korsmo- Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Labor

Claude Alexander Allen- Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Carl J. Truscott- Director of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

David Smith- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department of Interior

Bradley Schlozman- Department of Justice

Eric Andell- Deputy Undersecretary Department of Education

Brian Doyle- Deputy Press Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

Felipe Sixto- Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs

Timothy Goeglein- Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison

Howard Krongard- Inspector General, State Department

Lurita Doan-Administrator, General Services Agency

http://thedcshuffle.com/2009/02/11/compl...scorecard/

Wow, this is going to get complicated. Sections for: Fired, Resigned, Indicted, Convicted, Failed Nomination... am I missing a category? Should there be separate categories for Resigned-Gay Sex Scandal, Resigned-Straight Family Values Scandal, Resigned-Failed Performance, Resigned-Payoff...

[Mac1337]

But none were avowed communist. They used to jail those guys not long ago.

[lafinfil]

Can you site an instance of someone in the US being jailed for being a Communist ?

[freeradical]

[Mac1337]

lafinfil wrote:
Can you site an instance of someone in the US being jailed for being a Communist ?

Well, they had to do a little more but they were half way there. Having a communist, which by definition must not believe in the US constitution, in a national policy making position is an offense in and of itself. May be the person who appointed him needs some explaining to do.

[lafinfil]

So you are saying that you lied misspoke ?

[$tevie]

It is not illegal to be an "avowed communist" -- although it is illegal to deny employment to somebody based on their political or economic views. Of course politics is all about perception, so the rules bend and twist.

[mattkime]

>>which by definition must not believe in the US constitution

you make the constitution sound like the tooth fairy

[August West]

Eugene McCarthy or Dakota, it's not clear wrote:
Having a communist, which by definition must not believe in the US constitution, in a national policy making position is an offense in and of itself.

Huh?

[swampy]

A communist doesn't belive in our Constitution so how could they ever be sworn to defend and protect it? (Let alone say "So help me God". Oh, wait! The czars don't get sworn in.