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Democrats engage in racial profiling of Bush appointees

The Democrats put out a report showing the Bush administration employs fewer women and minorities than the Clinton administration did. From The Washington Post:

Bush's Appointees Not As Diverse as Clinton's

President Bush's crop of political appointees includes fewer women and minorities than did President Bill Clinton's at comparable points in their presidencies, according to a new report by House Democrats.

Women made up about 37 percent of the 2,786 political appointees in the Bush administration in 2005, compared with about 47 percent in the Clinton administration in 1997, according to the report and supplemental data released last week by the Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee. Similarly, about 13 percent of Bush administration appointees last year were racial minorities, compared with 24 percent in the fifth year of Clinton's presidency, the report found.

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What the report does not mention, however, is that Bush has established a record of diversity in his Cabinet. Bush's Cabinet, which includes the vice president and the heads of 15 executive departments, currently has two Hispanics, two African Americans and two Asian Americans. Three departments -- State, Education and Labor -- are headed by women, and a fourth, Interior, has an acting secretary who is a woman.

Before Bush took office, no minority had occupied any of the four highest-profile Cabinet positions -- attorney general and the secretaries of the Defense, State and Treasury departments. Now, Alberto R. Gonzales, a Hispanic, is attorney general. Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to be secretary of state; her predecessor, Colin L. Powell, was the first African American named to that post.

"The president nominates well-qualified, experienced and highly respected individuals from diverse backgrounds to serve throughout his administration," said Erin Healy, a White House spokeswoman.

This silly report says nothing about President Bush's commitment to equal opportunity for all Americans; it says much about the obsession of the Democrats with judging people first by the color of their skin, or their sex, not by the content of their character. Of course all that is par for the course for the party of Jim Crow.

Incidentally, when 90%+ of black voters choose to be Democrats, and other minorities and single women also lean Democrat, are they going to be likely to apply for positions in a Republican administration? Are these facts going to affect the stats? We're sure the Democrats took that sort of thing into account when they did their ridiculous "study", right?

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posted by: The Editors @ 8:39 am May 8, 2006


1 Comment

  1. Bush's Appointees Not As Diverse as Clinton's

    This corresponds to the way the parties treat people. Democrats pretend to care, but certainly dont want minorities to succeed, because they might cease to vote Democratic, and Republicans give everyone a chance to succeed, regardless of race or gend...

    Trackback by Don Singleton — May 8, 2006 @ 5:35 pm May 8, 2006


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