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Bush League Justice: John Tanner Resigns

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Dan Abrams offers this update to last week's Bush League Justice series. DoJ Voting Chief John Tanner resigned last last week after his unbelievably stupid comments about minority lifespans and how voting rights laws discriminated against whites made it too difficult for even the Bush adminstration to wave off. But fear now, like most loyal Bushies, Tanner is not gone so much as he is pushed further into the shadows of a lower profile position with the DOJ.

And where has Mr. "Minorities Die Sooner" Tanner been moved to? The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices. Oh, I bet he'll just be great at that job.

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pissed off patricia's picture

Jesus, how many foxes do we need in these hen houses.

I guess next they'll hire Michael Vick to look after Barney.

carol's picture

Way to go Tanner! Open mouth, insert foot, bite down, chew intently!

Dr. Acula's picture

Yet another installment of Duhbya's "Heckuva Job" series!

bushisaliar's picture

another promo for a neocon mouthbreather

Weaseldog's picture

Yeah Pop, Bush has had a great laugh in appointed people who represent the opposite of what the job requires.

Obviously Tanner isn't qualified to even hold a job, or Bush wouldn't appoint him to begin with.

Carl Gordon's picture

So I take it that preznit's time has been dominated by productive pursuits, rubber products, and haphazard knowledge of the stars and other less recognized operating systems. His whole house of cads is hanging together barely by a thread, a ambiguous metaphor foisted by an individual with a flute, or a flinging of baloney at clueless people (media) trying to figure out which fork to use, as he embraces the promise of alienation and it’s various gifts it has bestowed on him. What is needed is dissolving boundaries, the latest tome by the Shulgins, ethno-botany as it relates to oemlets and other egg dishes, prepared remarks to fend off media dorks and the dopey 25%, the throb of the zeitgeist, existence in the indeterminate zone, and the opportunities of his dilemma. Wasn’t it Gurdjieff that claimed that people do not perceive reality, as they are not conscious of themselves, but live in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep." My motto: While sleeping, watch. I guess I’m disappointed with the revelation of no commonality of perception, and it bites me on the ass every trash night. It’s the monkey mind, post-Mcluhanist. No one is in control, absolutely no one.

Weaseldog's picture

"but live in a state of hypnotic “waking sleep.”...

Scary

miss_kitty's picture

"And where has Mr. “Minorities Die Sooner” Tanner been moved to? The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices. Oh, I bet he’ll just be great at that job."

Like John Bolton in the UN. Like Gonzo as AG.

CheneyBushCo-Matching skills with jobs.

Liberal AND Proud's picture

I guess the Pretzelnit will just have to dig deeper into the sludge to find a replacement.

Hmmm...any imprisoned white collar felons been released from prison lately?

Fade's picture

Speaking of appointees, I just spit my drink out when a coworker walked by my office talking to another discussing that Hillary is going to appoint Bill to the supreme court if she's elected..

what th' hell? That's the frickin nuttiest thing I've heard from a wingnut in over a week- where do they get this shit? has anyone else heard this crap?

Weaseldog's picture

Liberal AND Proud @ 9:

I guess the Pretzelnit will just have to dig deeper into the sludge to find a replacement.

Hmmm...any imprisoned white collar felons been released from prison lately?

I think that David Duke is available. Perhaps he'd like the job?

CoIntelPro's picture

I hope abrams keeps this up!

CoIntelPro's picture

miss_kitty @ 8:

"And where has Mr. “Minorities Die Sooner” Tanner been moved to? The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices. Oh, I bet he’ll just be great at that job."

Like John Bolton in the UN. Like Gonzo as AG.

CheneyBushCo-Matching skills with jobs.

and condi-mental as sec'y of state.

Katie's picture

The saddest part of this whole thing is that he really has no idea why he's wrong. He's a racist on principle, dammit!!!

phantom's picture

Remember, each time the Bushies throw an incompetent nutjob into an important government position, they can then use it as an excuse to continue privatizing the government's infrastructure.

"The government is inefficent! We must let the market decide! Rabble, rabble, rabble..."

Paul's picture

I blame every continuing scandal, screw-up, criminal act on Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Harry Reid. They could have chosen to put a stop to this by doing their duty, and they steadfastly refuse. They own it all.

Dr. Acula's picture

Paul @ 16:

I blame every continuing scandal, screw-up, criminal act on Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Harry Reid. They could have chosen to put a stop to this by doing their duty, and they steadfastly refuse. They own it all.

Sorry, no. Even IF impeachment proceedings were to start, NOTHING would come of it. We have to look forward to sending BushCo to the Hague for war crimes.

Katie's picture

Paul,

Yes, they could have done something, but they certainly don't earn 100% of the blame. I agree they're not the best we can get, but they weren't the ones who shit on the Constitution. They're just afraid to get the shit on their nice suits.

JupiterPluvius's picture

Well, it's the "Office FOR Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices", not the "Office AGAINST Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices," after all. As a strict constructionist, he has to do what he can to advance the cause of immigration-related unfair employment practices!

anon's picture

This is a fraction of 1% of the problems that have been created. In order to truly deal with these issues, the next administration will have to open all historic documents and have several years of careful and public analysis of what has happened during this and previous administrations - probably going back 40 years. Then, remedial actions would need to be taken, probably including constitutional amendments.

I dont see politicians of the stripe of Pelosi or Reid or Clinton etc doing anything of the sort.

Electing democratic presidents wont define correction. Since '02 the democrats have been complicit.

The nation has been permanently altered. I dont believe it can be saved or corrected.

Stupid Git's picture

Fade @ 10:

Speaking of appointees, I just spit my drink out when a coworker walked by my office talking to another discussing that Hillary is going to appoint Bill to the supreme court if she's elected..

what th' hell? That's the frickin nuttiest thing I've heard from a wingnut in over a week- where do they get this shit? has anyone else heard this crap?

Same place they heard about McCain's black baby, Obama's Islamofascist ties, Clinton's murdering of an old buddy, Clinton's murdering of a family pet, Clinton's real estate fraud, Kerrys phony purple-hearts... They heard it from one of the voices in their head.

Carl Gordon's picture

The road Boosh has set out upon has been in a sorry state of disrepair for quite some time, six times, and for you loyal 25 percenters, that's the amount of toes you have on your left foot. The bridge he crossed to get to what appears as a sun blasted lifeless desolate tract out in the middle of nothing (Are you sure this is the way?) is out as well, blowed up real nice, or so rumor has it. At the very least it would take quite a bit of effort to get back to where we were, as they tell me there is a sizable hobo camp inhabiting it's forlorn and forgotten shell. The Caltrans worker he passed a day ago warned him that the rode ahead is in a dreadful condition as well, or at least that's what he denies he said, as it was filtered through a formidable chunk of a puffy sickly sweet jelly doughnut confection crammed down his gibbering maw with suicidal abandon, unaware of the lurking type II diabetes about to cap his ass. And us? I try not to worry about the various potholes of of this preznit's deceit, nor the road-kill that's the price we must inevitable pay to play. Ah, but the play's the thing, wouldn't you agree?

Gas is a small price to pay for the high fiber diet of Boosh's life closely examined. Sometimes the pressure becomes too much to hold back as it attempts to escape in a barrage of born-again floppy-doodle, and we are ultimatley left with little choice but to reply to the unanswered question, squeezing out a joyous but cacophonous fanfare for this miscreant. Everybody by now has been warned or notified of his delicate mental condition, some getting more than a rebuke, others constantly thrown off kilter with every new geyser-like revelation.

So we plug along, equally puzzled by where we're going and the eternal battle with the con inside the White House, seeking freedom from all external constraints on our behavior. And ask anybody - he's definitely misbehaving! The fear of being overwhelmed by, what lately seems to be the boogey-man of his impending discovered lies has foisted an extra heaping helping of denial and guilt, inserting severe limits on his normal exercise of desire, need, and deception. Afraid to move forward, fearful and preoccupied by the past, his uneasy self-hate a way of generating and then explaining his perpetual sense of being downtrodden and defeated throughout his life. When one gets chopped off at the knees by fate, it's easy to feel defeated, which I guess is better than be fetid. The electorate has now jumped out of a plane twice without admitting how dangerous it is - Now there's the possibility that some of the original mouth-breathers will do it again, and constantly run the lousy film back over and over. This movie sucks! The springs in the seat are goosing us big time, we can't get comfortable, there's sticky gak all over the floor, the popcorn is stale and over-priced, the media all around us constantly yammer, and we can't get our money back.

So what do you think? Do you think the tires need to be properly inflated? Or do you feel like a lot of people that the resale value on this car is going to be nil?

Doggiebobo's picture

Stupid Git @ 21:

Fade @ 10:

Speaking of appointees, I just spit my drink out when a coworker walked by my office talking to another discussing that Hillary is going to appoint Bill to the supreme court if she's elected..

what th' hell? That's the frickin nuttiest thing I've heard from a wingnut in over a week- where do they get this shit? has anyone else heard this crap?

Same place they heard about McCain's black baby, Obama's Islamofascist ties, Clinton's murdering of an old buddy, Clinton's murdering of a family pet, Clinton's real estate fraud, Kerrys phony purple-hearts... They heard it from one of the voices in their head.

And, be sure to give credit where credit is due...the main stream media is equally, if not
more so, guilty of reporting such lies and misinformation. NO news; but "entertaintment"
is the name of the game.

myiq2xu's picture

These GOPers are worse that Jason Voorhies. You think they're finally gone for good, and then they come back from the dead to cause more trouble.

myiq2xu's picture

Fade @ 10:

Speaking of appointees, I just spit my drink out when a coworker walked by my office talking to another discussing that Hillary is going to appoint Bill to the supreme court if she's elected..

what th' hell? That's the frickin nuttiest thing I've heard from a wingnut in over a week- where do they get this shit? has anyone else heard this crap?

W.H. Taft went to SCOTUS after he left the White House, so why not?

Imagine Scalia and Thomas' heads exploding if she did appoint Billy to sit with them.

Amitola's picture

I keep thinking I'm asleep and this is all just a NIGHTMARE! I hope I wake up real soon.

Stupid Git @ 21:

Fade @ 10:

Speaking of appointees, I just spit my drink out when a coworker walked by my office talking to another discussing that Hillary is going to appoint Bill to the supreme court if she's elected..

what th' hell? That's the frickin nuttiest thing I've heard from a wingnut in over a week- where do they get this shit? has anyone else heard this crap?

Same place they heard about McCain's black baby, Obama's Islamofascist ties, Clinton's murdering of an old buddy, Clinton's murdering of a family pet, Clinton's real estate fraud, Kerrys phony purple-hearts... They heard it from one of the voices in their head.

I have a feeling there are people getting paid right now to write lies about whomever gets the Democratic nomination. They are probably putting some of their most bizarre ones out now for a test run.

Thing Fish's picture

Stupid Git @ 21:

Fade @ 10:

Speaking of appointees, I just spit my drink out when a coworker walked by my office talking to another discussing that Hillary is going to appoint Bill to the supreme court if she's elected..

what th' hell? That's the frickin nuttiest thing I've heard from a wingnut in over a week- where do they get this shit? has anyone else heard this crap?

Same place they heard about McCain's black baby, Obama's Islamofascist ties, Clinton's murdering of an old buddy, Clinton's murdering of a family pet, Clinton's real estate fraud, Kerrys phony purple-hearts... They heard it from one of the voices in their head.

Why from Murdock's newly acquired scandal sheet The WSJ (though the WSJ politics were always to the right of Scrooge). Nice of them to give a volunteer legal adviser to Romney a platform to spew his drool.

Herbert's picture

Actually, things said like: "White people live longer"
goes hand in hand with: "The earth is six thousand years old"

Frybread's picture

This is a symptom of a bloated bureaucracy -- you have people who never really leave government. They are just reassigned to new positions.

Undercover Brother's picture

is there any surprise they just moved this asshole to another office??

i knew i should have been an idiot when i grew up

John's picture

He should know he can't say anything about minorities, libs will go crazy, now if he bashed whites, well, that would be ok. Just don't ever speak of someone who is not white, how dare you! they are so oppressed, Mr. Tanner you should just work on giving them every break at the expense of others, its not there fault you know!!

tHeGaMeOfLiFe's picture

I think I caught a glimpse of a elder brown person the other day. I was like, WTF??

Tanner is just as much an idiot as the rest of the repugs

renee's picture

John Tanner--any relation to "Mad Dog" Tanner?

Cythraul's picture

Impeachment is off the table.

Keep supporting those DemoCrans.

brokenarrow's picture

CoIntelPro @ 12:

I hope abrams keeps this up!

Yeah, I don't watch any teevee, but this guy is on fire!!!!!!!!!! I'll keep hoping to see more of him right here, that's where I get my KO fixes, too.

Preacher Boob's picture

If he screws up again, they'll probably give him an UZI, a flamethrower, an up-armored HumVee, and have him patrol the Tijuana border.

jr's picture

the Bushies love to surround themselves with whites only drinking fountainists

wombab's picture

Popped over to the CDC website and guess what...

"For example, in 1999 the average American could expect to live 77.8 years, the average African American could only expect to live 73.1 years"

Lots of stuff we can criticize this guy for and maybe the overall point he was making was in some way reprehensible. Who knows? But the mere mention of the well-known fact that, for a variety of reasons, black Americans don't live as long as white ones isn't one of them.

StCyrlyMe2's picture

Just wait for the next one they plan to install. Just in time for the 2008 election. They will run all this shit in the next months, leading up to the election.

They know they don't stand a snow ball chance in hell to win any kind of election, the way they have screwed this country up.

No matter how they dump Candy Corbet (or what ever), on National TV, Complete with Bogus Polling Data along with the rest of these clowns, all over these networks for one reason only. The love of money at any cost.

Herbert's picture

It was great seeing this guy with egg on his face...where did he get this notion from? The same book that says that says that the brain of a white man is bigger? Maybe the committee member who was teasing him on the clip should have asked from what source he got this from? Wouldn't it be better to investigate the source than bitch slapping some fool on TV?

I did not know that there are a few John Tanners out there. The most famous being the one from Davy Crockett's district in Tennessee.

swarmofkillermonkeys's picture

The C&L title is wrong, as pointed out in the piece.

He didn't resign, he was transferred to another position within the department!

Shag's picture

Rightwingers are just racist and fascist. Anyone poor person, minority or woman who votes for them is just delusional, uninformed or just stupid.

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