Comment Re:You're right, it's just whining (Score 1) 1430
This isn't the first time the Bush Adminstration has done this. There was another technical commission where a member was purged because the White House believed he had donated to Al Gore. Except he hadn't - he had the same name as someone who had. I'm sorry I can't recall the name or the panel.
We're pretty much at: "Well, it's nice that he won the Nobel Prize and all, but I see he donated $100 to a Democrat once. (Or heck, maybe John McCain...) So I don't think he's right for this board to investigate the nation's cancer effort... or a space shuttle disaster.. "
We're pretty much at: "Well, it's nice that he won the Nobel Prize and all, but I see he donated $100 to a Democrat once. (Or heck, maybe John McCain...) So I don't think he's right for this board to investigate the nation's cancer effort... or a space shuttle disaster.. "