Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Lurita Doan: The Alberto Gonzales Of The GSA

Lurita Doan acts as cluelessly under oath as her counterpart in the Attorney General's office. The only difference is that Lurita is clearly in her position due to the amount of money she and her husband donated to the Bush campaign. Alberto is merely a hatchet man next to her (albeit a very important hatchet man).

Mrs. Doan has clearly violated the 1939 Hatch Act by using government offices for political purposes, yet tries to downplay the seriousness of her crimes while claiming not to remember many details of those crimes. In a nutshell, this is one partisan hack that needs to go. The White House Office of Special Counsel has recommended that she be fired. Of course, this is the Bush White House and loyalty usurps criminal behavior anyday.

From Down With Tyranny:

Like Gonzales, she serves "at the pleasure" of the president and apparently he gets a great deal of pleasure surrounding himself with incompetent crooks and scoundrels whose appreciation of the law is exactly what his own his: nil. Bush and Rove-- not to mention Cheney-- are likely to sympathize with Doan when the Office of Special Counsel letter to Bush criticizes her for defending the meeting by claiming it was attended by political appointees who witnessed a presentation that "would likely be in line with 'their own beliefs.'"

It was clear from the moment Doan took the stand at Henry Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that she is a deceitful partisan hack who has been schooled to repeat, ad nauseum "I do not remember."

Of course, let us not forget that Karl Rove had a role in all of this, since he was the one that came up with the list of targeted House Democrats in the first place. With Rove's involvement, I doubt that the White House will even think about firing her. This is yet another case where Congress must act on behalf of a negligent President. Unfortunately for the rule of law, Congress is 0 for 1 when it comes to ridding the government of obvious criminals such as Alberto Gonzales. No matter how much Waxman blusters at her for the criminal activity, the only tool that must be used is impeachment of Doan. Honestly, I'm not holding my breath.