Bush Appoints Grand Moff Tarkin To Head Alderaan Preservation Council

Notice a pattern?

Femnisting: “Bush has appointed a birth control opponent Susan Orr to head our nation’s family planning office.” From the Washington Post:

Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed Monday to be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs. She will oversee $283 million in annual grants to provide low-income families and others with contraceptive services, counseling and preventive screenings.

In a 2001 article in The Washington Post, Orr applauded a Bush proposal to stop requiring all health insurance plans for federal employees to cover a broad range of birth control. “We’re quite pleased, because fertility is not a disease,” said Orr, then an official with the Family Research Council.

Barak Obama: Bush nominates anti-voting-right activist to Federal Election Committee.

President George W. Bush has recently nominated Hans von Spakovsky to serve on the Federal Election Commission (FEC). It’s the job of the FEC to regulate elections and disclose campaign finance contributions. […] From 2001 to 2005, von Spakovsky served as an official at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division where he amassed a record of undermining voting rights¹, creating restrictions that would make it harder for poor and minority communities to vote, and putting partisan politics above upholding our civil rights.

It seems likely that Obama will be successful in blocking von Spakovsky’s nomination, thankfully.

Brad Blog: Bush’s Chief of Voting Rights Supports Unconstitutional I.D. Requirements at Polling Places

The remarks by Tanner, video-taped and first reported by The BRAD BLOG, were meant in support of his decision to allow a Photo ID restriction at polling places in Georgia, over the recommendation of four out of five of the career attorneys in the Civil Rights unit. The law would later be found unconstitutional by two federal judges, one of whom declared the practice to be a “Jim Crow-era poll tax”.

1. More on von Spakovsky’s record here. [↩]