Bush Civil Rights Appointee Denied Seat by Commission, Refused Recognition

AP ^ | 12/7/01 | Will Lester

[maryz]

Thanks for the references.

What's not clear to me -- if anyone recalls -- is, if she was appointed in 1980, shouldn't her term have expired in 1986? Surely Reagan wouldn't have reappointed her. Was there a hiatus in her "service" from 1986 until Clinton dredged her up again in 1993?

[StarFan]

I read her term will expire several days after Dubya's first term in office.

[TheGrimReaper]

It is obviously time to disband this useless "commission".
With partisan hacks and lackeys like Berry running things, it is clear that nothing worthwhile can ever come of such a worthless entity.
Save the taxpayers a few bucks and send them all home.

[Dog]

Agree we all need to just relax....W will outfox her...she crossed a line today....just watch..

Ms. Berry will not know what hit her....

[baltoga]

A check of other Web sites Fox, ABC, MSNBC,Washington Post and even the dreaded Salon shows this issue off the radar screen. Are we making a lot of hay out of essentially a petty office squabble?

[FreedomPoster]

disband the Commission

I'm all for that. Anything that dismantles a governmental agency, I'm generally for.

I try to personally visit my state senator and representative every year. The one message I deliver consistently from year to year, is that they should find some facet of government and get rid of it. My example is agricultural assistance agents for urban / suburban counties. Having a agent of government around to tell me what to do to my soil to grow better fescue is not a proper funtion of government, but a function of Pikes Nurseries, the Home Depot garden department, etc.

[doug from upland]

Dubya should do to this commission what The Gipper did to the illegally striking air traffic controllers. It set the tone for his presidency and let all international foes know not to F with him.

[N8VTXNinWV]

ping...

[lady lawyer]

Queen of the Zulus

Isn't "Queen of the Mau-Maus" more like it?

[FreedomPoster]

This is far from a petty office squabble. The symbolic value alone is immense.

[oldironsides]

Her power and ego became inflated during the Clinton Gore years. The Democrats pandered to her and used race repeatedly as an election tool. She is the end result of an abusive Democratic Party that was allowed to use racism and class envy as a way to inflame minority voters. The very same people using James Byrd to get politicians elected are responsible for this silly ass of a woman. Bad behavior and ugly public displays should not be handled with kid gloves. She should be chastised in public and fast.

[VMI70]

Now you're turning on the way-back machine.

That was a really bad group--makes Mugabe's savages, the "veterans", look like pikers.

[Recovering_Democrat]

... never realized how really evil Demonrats are until what I saw with my own eyes down here in Palm Beach County last in November 2000.

My screen name comes from a similar experience, albeit much earlier. I started drifting from the 'rats when they embraced a known Liar as their party leader back in '92. Now I am happy to be a...
Recovering Democrat.

[gumbo]

During a Meeting of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,...
Fri, Dec 07 09:52 AM
During a meeting of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Peter Kirsanow, center, who President Bush appointed to the commission, sits in the audience looking on Friday, Dec. 7, 2001, in Washington, as his lawyers Robert Kelner, left, and Bobby Burchfield, right, confer, after Kirsanow was denied a seat, or even to be recognized by the commission. Photo by Kenneth Lambert (AP)

[PortugeeJoe]

Can we get a copy of that???

[Endeavor]

I wouldn't put a moment's trust in Nadler or Conyers. Tell Berry she can take her ball and go home if she wants, but she can't be Queen of the Commission anymore.

[Michael Barnes]

Isn't "Queen of the Mau-Maus" more like it?

I was thinking "Queen of the Bow-Wow's"...Man, she FUGLY!

[Havisham]

USCCR and the U.S. Congress
Subject line: Information Please

In light of Mary Frances Berry's highly irrational remarks to the President's Personal Counsel, today's public humiliation of the President's appointee at her behest, to say nothing of her shocking conduct of the Florida hearings and her post-hearing interviews ("I can do anything I want ..."), it is clear that she is easily the most dysfunctional individual in government today and should be forced to resign immediately. Who at the USCCR and Congress has the professional integrity to see that a more rational and responsible commissioner replaces her without delay? I'm sure she will have no trouble receiving the best psychiatric care a fat, federal pension can buy.

CH
Tucson, Arizona

[Miss Marple]

Fox covered this last night. None of the other networks touched it, as far as I know, but I would bet dollars to doughnuts they were ready with cameras if W had sent marshals (as Ms. Berry dared him to do).

Amazingly, she is under the impression that hs is a stupid cowboy. Foolish, foolish woman.

Since nothing happened that could be shown on television to the detriment of President Bush, there will be no coverage of this. There will continue to be no coverage unless Ms. Berry manages to manufacture a scene, which I am sure she will attempt. The President is very smart on this and will not take the bait.

Now I am sure some Bush-bashers will come along and tell us he backed down, or he is a wuss, or he is really a liberal, yada, yada. Bill Kristol will write a column criticizing him, and no doubt Larry Klaymamn will file a lawsuit against him.

I am always fascinated at how he solves things...often not in the usual manner.

[BruceS]

Look for the GOP to retake the Senate and pick up 10+ seats in the House

Do you have any hard information, or is this wishful thinking? I am thinking the GOP loses the House and breaks even in the Senate - but that is based on my bright, sunny pessimism about whether the GOP can do anything right.