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Rep. Emanuel Makes Satirical Mincemeat of White House SalariesPosted on Jul 12, 2006Responding to a recently published list of White House salaries—including $100,000 a year for the “director for lessons learned,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) ran through a few “lessons” the White House apparently missed.
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By John Hall, July 12, 2006 at 5:17 pm #
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Director of Lessons Learned? If that isn’t proof enough this administration isn’t Orwellian, I don’t know what is.
Report thisBy felicity smith, July 12, 2006 at 4:47 pm #
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Then there’s that august body, the Supreme Court. The justices have cut their number of full decisions by more than half, from over 160 in 1945 to about 80 today. During the same period they have QUADRUPLED their retinue of clerks - somebody has to write those decisions. How else could Rehnquist have produced four books, Thomas have time to work on a $1.5 million memoir, or O’Connor who took twenty-eight paid trips in 2004 and published books in 2002, 2003, and 2005. Washington’s trees don’t bloom cherries, they bloom (our) money.
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