Cronytastic! Bush assigns dropout to censor NASA scientists!

[hgc]

No, you're not dreaming. By now it's reasonable to expect that Bush would plant a political operative in NASA to censor scientists' utterances on global warming, the big bang and anything else that touches on the interests of big bidness and James Dobson.

But did he have to select a punk-ass college dropout for the job? It embarrasses us all.

http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/2006/02/breaking-news-george-deutsch-did-not.html

 

[Hutch]

If you like that one, hgc, wander over to the Bad Astronomers Blog and see what has Phil boiling over and the wunderkin...

Link: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/02/04/outrage-at-attacks-on-nasa-science/

 

[jimlintott]

Where is the appalled emoticon?



Close enough!!

 

[Tmy]

I love how Bush is anti-affirmative action cause the spots should go to "the most qualified". "Most qualified" being code for "best connected".

 

[Cain]

The hackery of the Bush administration is astonishing.

Remember when everyone questioned Janet Reno "independence" as Attorney General? That discussion is practically off the table now, even though the Man is Bush's old friend and former legal counsel. In addition to the Justice Department there's Bush's second nomination for the Supreme Court, FEMA, and Iraq.

As one talking head on "The Daily Show" put it: Republicans do not want to shrink the size of government; they want to shrink the effectiveness of government.

 

[Luke T.]

I love how Bush is anti-affirmative action cause the spots should go to "the most qualified". "Most qualified" being code for "best connected".

I gotta admit, Tmy, that's a good one.

 

[Mark]

The scariest thing to me is that the staunch Bush supporters will still support him. This will not make one bit of difference to them. None.

They may hate this, but they hate Democrats more and that's the end of it as far as they are concerned.

 

[Snide]

I never thought I'd hear a cronyism claim over a 24-year-old, but yeah, this stinks...real bad.

 

[rwguinn]

The scariest thing to me is that the staunch Bush supporters will still support him. This will not make one bit of difference to them. None.

They may hate this, but they hate Democrats more and that's the end of it as far as they are concerned.

Another time you're wrong...
I fired off a really nastygram to my Senators...

 

[bug_girl]

Interestingly enough, Mr. Brown (of FEMA fame) got caught with a bit of fluffy creativity in his resume as well.

This whole thing makes me depressed.

 

[Mark]

Another time you're wrong...
I fired off a really nastygram to my Senators...

Well, it's a start...when Republicans actually start voting against these people I will be impressed.

 

[jj]

I wonder what our resident apologists have to say. Where's Skeptic and Jocko and BobK and so on?

 

[hgc]

If you like that one, hgc, wander over to the Bad Astronomers Blog and see what has Phil boiling over and the wunderkin...

Link: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/02/04/outrage-at-attacks-on-nasa-science/

Thanks for that link, Hutch. We are reminded from this article about the ID wedge strategy. ... from an email from a punk-ass crony dropout to the adult scientists:

The Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion,” Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, “It is not NASA’s place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.”

Biology is only the beginning for the Creationist backlash against science. Astronomy is next.

 

[Melendwyr]

They're not going after segments of science, they're attacking its very foundation.

If they don't cut it out, I think scientists are going to attack back one of these days.

 

[peptoabysmal]

Wow. I think this demonstrates the power of free speech (via a weglog) more than a lot of the other so-called free speech I have heard about lately.

On February 6, 2006, Nick Anthis published on his weblog The Scientific Activist news that Deutsch had lied on his résumé about earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Texas A&M University in 2003. Deutsch did attend A&M, but left school in 2004 to work for George W. Bush's reelection campaign. Following this revelation, on February 7, 2006, Deutsch resigned from his post at NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deutsch

GW needs to check out resumes a little more closely.

 

[peptoabysmal]

Well, it's a start...when Republicans actually start voting against these people I will be impressed.

Maybe if they get any viable choices, they will. Until then, it is a case of the lesser of two evils.

 

[fishbob]

Maybe if they get any viable choices, they will. Until then, it is a case of the lesser of two evils.

Well, I guess that means it sucks just as much to be a Repub as it does to be a Dem. Something is very wrong when 99 percent of the voters are losers.

 

[Leif Roar]

Maybe if they get any viable choices, they will. Until then, it is a case of the lesser of two evils.

On a general level, isn't that ignoring the voters' responsibility? I mean, isn't it the responsibility of the citizens to ensure that there are viable choices in the political elections?

 

[delphi_ote]

On a general level, isn't that ignoring the voters' responsibility? I mean, isn't it the responsibility of the citizens to ensure that there are viable choices in the political elections?

Yea. You get on that, Leif. I'm holding you personally responsible.

 

[Leif Roar]

Yea. You get on that, Leif. I'm holding you personally responsible.

Well, strictly speaking I'm not a citizen but a subject. But don't worry, I'll do my best to ensure neither Carl I Hagen nor Bondevik ever become king of Norway. ;-P