Actually, there is some controversy over that too. Seems her appointment expires just days before Bush's last day of his first term, but she submitted paperwork showing that her appointment expires a day or two AFTER the last day of Bush's first term. Of course, if he wins reelection then it doesnt matter. I will try to find more info on that. I remember hearing Boortz talk about it.
Berry was speaking to the NAACP convention in New Orleans last week. She told the assembled delegates that, before Jim Jeffords departed the Republican Party and gave the Senate to the Democrats, "I was just wondering when Strom Thurmond was gonna die."
PUTTING HERSELF OUT OF DUBYA'S REACH
These days, Mary Frances Berry is soaking up the limelight. And she's going to do her damnedest to keep her job.
Berry, as I've mentioned before, heads the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights--you know, the group of geniuses that said minorities were disenfranchised in Florida even though they couldn't come up with one shred of evidence that there was a conspiracy by government officials to prevent them from voting.
John Miller of National Review calls her "one of the ambulance chasers of the civil-rights movement." That's because every time there's a problem with race relations, she's there. She was there to slam the police when Amadou Diallo was shot...just as Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign was building steam. She was there when those black high school students were suspended in Decatur, Illinois. And she was there during the black-church-burning hoax.
That's not all. In her writings, Berry touts communism and claims there was a real threat of genocide against blacks in the 1960s--the same threat faced by the Jews in the 1930s!
And it doesn't end there. Now Berry is working on keeping her embarrassing stranglehold on power.
Each of the commission's eight members is appointed by the White House and serves a term lasting six years. Berry succeeded Connie Homer, whose term expired December 5, 1998. Bill Clinton didn't get around to Berry until January 26, 1999--but that's not when the clock started ticking. It started the day Homer left the commission. Which means Berry's tenure expires in December 2004, and George W. Bush will be able to pick her successor.
But the Plum Book, which lists every political job in government, says differently. When she was preparing the commission's entry in the Plum Book, Berry listed her job's expiration date as January 21, 2005--one day after the next president is inaugurated!
She's clearly trying to keep herself out of Dubya's reach and escape any kind of accountability for her race-baiting career. Would Mary Frances Berry have any kind of career in the private sector? Not bloody likely. She's trying to hold on to that meal ticket for as long as she possibly can.
Will the Bush administration have the cojones to deal with her--not to mention her inevitable cries of racism if they do?
Boortz also included a link to that days "Inside the Beltway" by John McCaslin, but the link goes to the current days article. If anyone knows how to find the Washington Times archives of "Inside the Beltway" please go get the 06/11/01 edition and post it here for us.