What should have happened last year has finally come to pass. General Services Administration head Lurita Doan is being shown the door long after her abuses of power had come to light. If you recall, she let endorsed political activities (for Republicans naturally) and held them in her offices at the taxpayers' expense. This of course is illegal, just google the Hatch Act to find out. Congressman Waxman told her to resign last year but she refused, showing that even the tough-talking reformers couldn't do anything against the ruthless contempt for the law shown by the Bush Administration. Even though her term is over, she did leave stating the typical BS that any corrupt bureaucrat loves to spout.
From The Politico:
"Dear Friends and Colleagues at GSA,
Early this evening I was asked to submit my resignation, and I have just done so. It has been a great privilege to serve with all of you and to serve our nation and a great President.The past twenty-two months have been filled with accomplishments: together, we have regained our clean audit opinion, restored fiscal discipline, re-tooled our ability to respond to emergencies, rekindled entrepreneurial energies, reduced bureaucratic barriers to small companies to get a GSA Schedule, ignited a building boom at our nation’s ports of entries, boldly led the nation in an aggressive telework initiative, and improved employee morale so that we were selected as one of the best places to work in the Federal government.
These accomplishments are made even more enjoyable by the fact that there were lots of people who told us they could never be done.
Best of luck to all of you, it has been a true honor."
Honor? Honor?!? There is no such thing in the Bush Administration. Never has been, never will. It is truly one big farce.
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