Word: cronyism
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...internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White House-disclosures that would undermine a president's ability to receive candid counsel," Bush said. But no one was buying it. The problem wasn't the process but a perception that this was an instance of naked cronyism at work. No one believed this was about executive privilege any more than people thought that FEMA Director Michael Brown had been brought back to Washington from New Orleans for more important work...
...they cast their ballots. What may be more important is how much Democrats succeed in blasting Bush and the Republicans and convincing voters a new party should control Washington. Democrats have already started rolling out two phrases to reinforce that point: "We can do better" and "a culture of cronyism and corruption", which they accuse the G.O.P. of creating...
...placing unqualified individuals in critical government jobs [Oct. 3] again illustrates what has become quite clear: Bush is more concerned with maintaining an insular bubble of yes-men than with running the country. It's too bad thousands of our poorest citizens have had to pay dearly for his cronyism...
Without any ideological ballast, the Bush Presidency resembles nothing more than the bastard child of the Harding and Johnson administrations: from cronyism at home (from Brown at FEMA to the Miers nomination) and abroad (Iraq reconstruction contracts), to overly ambitious Great Society spending at home (Medicaid) and quagmire wars (Iraq, again). If, despite a comfortable Senate majority, Bush will not or cannot nominate a bold constructionist to the Supreme Court, it is clear that the administration and the Republican Party at large are without cohesive intellectual principles, message or vision; they are unified only by their short-term desire...
...going to benefit from this largess? It won’t be the poor Superdome victims highlighted on national television. Instead, chances are that cronyism and corruption will line the pockets of well-connected businessmen and officials. The government has a proven inability to manage and oversee spending (just think about the Big Dig), and Louisiana—a byword for political corruption—is probably the last place in America that should get billions of no-strings-attached dollars. This is the state that ranked third in per capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi...