[Condor51]

Several speakers, including Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, used the Obama campaign slogan, “Yes, we can,” as they urged the thousands of “progressives” in the audience to bring “change” to Washington, D.C.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, well Dubya did it again with his "reaching out"...

• Commissioner Michael J. Copps
  Nominated for a second term November 9, 2005; confirmed December 21, 2005; sworn in January 3, 2006. Sworn in for his first term on May 31, 2001.

  Copps served until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries. Copps came to Washington in 1970, joining the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and serving for over a dozen years as Chief of Staff. He has also held positions at a Fortune 500 company and at a major trade association. Before coming to Washington, Copps was a professor of U.S. History at Loyola University of the South. Copps received a B.A. from Wofford College and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He never learned, you stick your hand out to Dems and they bite it off.

[iopscusa]

Not the first time GWB has appointed Leftist rats in as well as kept rats like Tenant! It is not a mistake after so many instances

[justiceseeker93]

He never learned, you stick your hand out to the Dems and they bite it off.

Actually, Bush had no choice but to appoint a 'Rat to that seat. There are five commissioners, and by law there can be no more than 3 from either party. Thus the lineup in the FCC is just about always 3-2 in favor of the party in the WH and can't be 4-1 or 5-0.