A reminder of what the mainstream of the Republican party is like:
"My tentative plans are to gerrymander all of those crazy libs right out of the section," [Bradley Schlozman] said in an e-mail in 2003. "I too get to work with mold spores, but here in Civil Rights, we call them Voting Section attorneys," he confided to another friend.
He hoped to get rid of the "Democrats" and "liberals" because they were "disloyal" and replace them with "real Americans" and "right-thinking Americans."
He appears to have succeeded by his standards, according to an inspector general's report released Tuesday. Among the newly hired lawyers whose political or ideological views could be discerned, 63 of 65 lawyers hired under Schlozman had Republican or conservative credentials, the report said.
He hoped to get rid of the "Democrats" and "liberals" because they were "disloyal" and replace them with "real Americans" and "right-thinking Americans."
He appears to have succeeded by his standards, according to an inspector general's report released Tuesday. Among the newly hired lawyers whose political or ideological views could be discerned, 63 of 65 lawyers hired under Schlozman had Republican or conservative credentials, the report said.
Conservatives like to hype the threat of the ideological bent of liberals, but the fact is, it's projection. Mold spores? You know what? I look forward to running over your fucking asses with a bulldozer for at least 2, maybe 4 years. Fuck you.
"Conservatives like to hype the threat of the ideological bent of liberals, but the fact is, it's projection"
The guy was a nasty S.O.B. but I have a tough time buying that 98 % conservatives in the DOJ section *after* his tenure was spoils system but the 100 % liberal personnel *before* his appointment simply represented the natural order of things. Just consider the odds of that likelihood.
Posted by: zenpundit | January 15, 2009 at 01:43 AM
Remember, this is a hard-core wingnut who is classifying these people as "liberal." To a committed wingnut, everyone who isn't hard right is a liberal, loathsome, and contemptible.
In this case, pretty much everyone in the Civil Rights division before Scholzman got there would have been someone who actually believed in having civil rights laws. That would automatically classify them as liberal troublemakers to a doctrinaire right-winger, regardless of their actual beliefs. For all we know, half of them might have been hired by Bush 1 or Reagan, enforcing the civil rights laws because that is what traditional conservatives do, enforce the laws instead of subverting them.
Posted by: Midland | January 15, 2009 at 06:18 PM