Red is not Hillary's color astonishingly enough.Well, crusty black was the color of the SS, although her real role model wore green:
How about that magnificent performance by Robert C. Sheets Byrd at yesterday's committee hearing, where he kept telling Rumsfeld he (Sheets) couldn't respond to a smirk. Rummy - and every one else in the room - looked embarrassed for the old fool, but at the same time just wanted him to shut up. Byrd repeated everything five times and his hands were shaking worse than Janet Reno's. Pathetic, and yet the people of my state probably will reelect him in a heartbeat. I'm going to propose that any Republican opponent use video clips from yesterday's hearing. Sheets is non compis mentis.
Hoo boy, here it comes:
President Bush isn't letting potential howls from the Christian right stop him from nominating an openly gay man as assistant secretary of commerce.
Just in time for Pride Week, Bush has tapped longtime aide Israel Hernandez for the post, which also carries the title of director general of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service. The 35-year-old Republican go-getter has been a Bush acolyte since the President's 1994 campaign for governor of Texas. (Among Hernandez's duties was supplying the candidate with breath mints, prompting Dubya to dub him "Altoid Boy.")
Most recently, the graduate of Texas A&M's George H.W. Bush School of Government served as aide-de-camp to senior White House adviser Karl Rove.
One source tells us Hernandez waited until Bush was sworn in for a second term to formally tell him he is gay. By then, says a source, he'd brought his partner to several official events.
Hernandez appeared yesterday before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Asked by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) if he'd like to introduce anyone, Hernandez mentioned his sister, mother and father.
Mike Rogers, whose blogactive.com covers gay political issues, was disappointed that Hernandez didn't mention his partner. "You know, if he were married to a woman and she was there, he would specifically mention her," Rogers told us. "Why are people like Izzy Hernandez pushing their spouses and loved ones into the closet when so many have gone before him and stood openly and proudly? This is typical of the Bush administration and its anti-gay, anti-safe-sex agenda."
Hernandez didn't return calls. source
