All Posts Tagged With: "Bush"
You know you’ve lost control when…
Here’s a hoot: it appears some one or more State Department career-types—meaning non-Bushies—have been having a bit of fun in the State Department hallways. This is from the blog Nukes & Spooks: Outside the State Department ‘s press briefing room on the department’s 2nd floor hang large official photos of Bush, Rice and Vice President [...]
23May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 2 comments | Continued
Australia’s New PM Puts Major Focus on Bureaucratic Reform
I would suggest, however, that while we prefer our bureaucracies not be ideologically driven in the way the Bush administration departments have been politicized, advancing the idea of policies and processes that are responsive to their constituencies, as Rudd seems to have done, is expressive of an ideal, and in that way is putting forth a non-partisan ideology. Lacking a clear partisan ideology doesn’t mean that he’s “lacking ideology” altogether.
4May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Of Ombudsmen, Freedom of Information Act, Conflict of Interest, and Bush
This certainly does not come as a surprise. From a recent AP story on WTOPnews.com: WASHINGTON (AP) – A Senate committee chairman accused the Bush administration on Monday of undercutting open government with a budget proposal that would have the Justice Department oversee a new office devoted to promoting greater freedom of information. Open government [...]
6Feb2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
A Lesser Sidestepping of Law Is Still A Sidestepping
Today’s Boston Globe carries a story on Bush having toned things down a bit in his first “signing statement” since Democrats became the majority in Congress. Bush signing statement is first since ’06 elections – The Boston Globe “They have clearly edited themselves,” said Christopher Kelley, a political science professor at Miami University of Ohio [...]
1Dec2007 | Deborah Alicen | 1 comment | Continued
Too Easy to Believe
There is a way in which the country’s getting worse has made things a little easier for me. Back when state bureaucracy first got its hooks into me, average Janes and Joes were much more likely to respond to a story like mine with incredulity. That was a mere five years ago. In that time [...]
26Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
