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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. T. who wrote (210519)	12/17/2001 8:36:43 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The uncivil commission: Scrap the Commission on Civil Rights unionleader.com THE U.S. COMMISSION on Civil Rights is up to uncivil deeds again as its chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry, fights to prolong the term of someone whose term has expired. Berry, you see, is a through-and-through Democrat who has cost the commission its credibility because of her fiercely partisan stances, and this is just the latest of those. Her objective is to prevent President Bush's new appointee from taking his rightful seat. The seat in question has belonged to Victoria Wilson, who was put on the board as a replacement for a member, A. Leon Higginbotham, who died. It was made clear in official documents prepared by the Clinton administration that Wilson would serve no longer than the expiration date of Higginbotham's term, the Associated Press reports. The legally laughable, ethically outrageous position of Berry and Wilson is that Wilson should be treated as someone appointed for a full term. If the Bush team takes this to court and wins, the President will be able in time to get an even balance of Republicans and Democrats on the commission, which is now firmly in the grip of Democrats. Except for the political howling that would result, you wonder why the White House doesn't just aim to scrap the commission. It may once have been a useful watchdog but these days it is taken seriously by no one with an ounce of objectivity. Maybe the answer is to make it a branch of the Democratic Party. That is how it has functioned lately.