Bush Replaces Head of Panel on Civil Rights

[Johnboy60]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - President Bush sought to reshape the United States Commission on Civil Rights on Monday, announcing a replacement for its chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry, who has been critical of his civil rights policies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/p...=b3c3412dec7c85a5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland


Robert

 

[MKalashnikov]

WAY TO GO PRESIDENT BUSH!!!!!!!!!!




Mary Frances Berry YOU'RE FIRED!

 

[Links234]

Bush only wants "yes-men." Quell shock. *rolls eyes*

 

[tulc]

The eight-member panel investigates civil rights complaints and reports its findings. It has no enforcement power.

So he can't tolerate people who criticize him even when they can't do anything about it?
tulc

 

[Vylo]

Ditto, how is this a good thing? Why should Bush be congradulated on ignroning civil rights, and firing those who try to bring up that fact?

 

[MKalashnikov]

Ditto, how is this a good thing? Why should Bush be congradulated on ignroning civil rights, and firing those who try to bring up that fact?

Berry has been out of control for a long time. She has used her position to promote a leftist agenda.

Here is a couple of articles about her antics.

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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20041207-082734-4274r.htm
The Berry commission has been adrift for more than a decade, and some people are questioning both the relevance of the agency itself as well as its management. A House Judiciary panel is probing all the commission's financials. The probe is necessary because, as Congress learned in October, the commission has failed to conduct an independent audit since Miss Berry became chairman and, as a consequence, the GAO is unable to determine precisely how the commission spends public funds. The commission failed to update its 1997 strategic plan. Also, the federal Office of Personnel Management recommended several operational reforms to the commission in the 1990s, but the commission adopted few reforms — leading to "dire financial circumstances."


Congress might have overlooked some of its own concerns had Miss Berry been less confrontational and myopic, but she spent considerable time probing voting-rights complaints and so-called racist motivations in an historical context, rather than doing what the commission was created to do in 1957 — investigate and publicize allegations of discrimination.


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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kirsanow200412061129.asp

None of this is particularly surprising to anyone who's followed the commission over the last dozen years. A culture of unaccountability has become an entrenched feature of the commission's administrative character. Numerous governmental reviews of the commission have concluded that the agency is wholly dysfunctional.

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For years she has acted as if the law doesn't apply to her.

She tried to refuse to seat a lawful Bush appointee, and claimed that U.S. Marshalls would have to seat him:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40259,00.html

(She finally caved.)

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http://insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=163057

 

[MadeInOz]

*rolls eyes*

 

[Vylo]

Upon further review of this woman there are too corrections I would like to make at once, one towards myself and the other to you ditto.

First, this was actually a good move by Bush, secondly, she isn't furthering a leftist agenda, she is furthering some psychotic personal agenda. She seems to be way off the deep end. She is the flipside of many of the less then savory republicans we have seen, except louder, more defiant, and other words I can't use on this board. Hopefully she gets lost and stays lost, we on the left don't need her.

Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with having a strong voice of criticism, but when you are breaking the law and using childish behavior to do nothing but impede and type of resolution, that is just making you look foolish. I don't know about Bush's appointee (though I have serious doubts about him), but just as with John Aschroft and several other departing individuals, we would have a tough time doing worse.

 

[MKalashnikov]

*rolls eyes*

I roll my eyes at Berry's antics as well.