Saturday, August 26, 2006
All Politics Is Inadvertent
Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List0 comments
Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.
The omission is inadvertent, said Katherine McLane, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, which administers the grants. “There is no explanation for it being left off the list,” Ms. McLane said. “It has always been an eligible major.”
Another spokeswoman, Samara Yudof, said evolutionary biology would be restored to the list, but as of last night it was still missing.
"Oops, oh my, however did THAT happen?" she said, clutching her pearls. (It's so nice that Republican women actually do have pearls to clutch. It makes their jobs so much easier.)
That's easy, ladies, you were hired to do it; you were encouraged to do it; you did it. Then you got caught.
And, according to page 726 of Karl Rove's Official Republican Bible & Handbook, the proper response upon being caught is to say:
"Oops, oh my, however did THAT happen?" Then look VERY concerned, clutch pearls and say to any reporter in earshot, IT WILL BE FIXED. Then, of course, be certain to not fix it.
Inadvertent, my ass.
This was by design, and has been since the Bushies came marauding into town.
Remember all the brouhaha in 2001 and early 2002 when Bush was pushing out all the obscure, unknown experts with seniority in every Department and Agency in Washington? The great bureaucratic purge that went on? Replacing department lifers with young, wild-eyed true believers? Apparatchiks, five to ten levels down into the very works of every agency, instead of the usual one to three levels of patronage jobs each administration installs when hitting town.
Here it is in action. This is being done to you on a daily basis. Across the board. Throughout the federal government.
We're going to be turning over rocks like this for the next ten to twenty years, finding all the various ways this insane administration has ruined day-to-day American life. It will take decades to repair the damage, and ferret out all the incompetent radicals they've installed.
The crap that's on the news is just the easily seen stuff. This is the hidden stuff that really effects your life.
Until it's entirely uprooted.
posted by Gotham 11:23 AM
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