This just came over the wire...
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senate Democrats accused President Bush Tuesday of withdrawing one of his Federal Elections Commission nominees to protect Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
The president revamped his list of nominees earlier Tuesday in an effort to break a long deadlock that has paralyzed the election watchdog in the middle of a contentious campaign year.
But instead of withdrawing the name of Republican Hans von Spakovsky — a former Justice Department Civil Rights section lawyer some Democrats believe promoted policies that harmed minority voters — Bush dropped commission chairman David Mason, a Republican who has blocked McCain's attempts to abandon the presidential public financing system.
Bush replaced Mason on his list with Republican Donald McGahn, the National Republican Congressional Committee's lead lawyer and a former attorney for Rep. Tom Delay, the former Republican House Majority Leader with connections to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. DeLay resigned from Congress after he was accused of corruption.
Rich. Really rich. Does The Worst President Ever really think Congress will let this pass?
The federal election board is a joke anyway. The Rethugs have turned it into another worthless partisan tool. Now they can point to it as yet another example of how government doesn't work "for the people." As if they gave a ...
Here's a fairly typical Portrait of a Republican:
Bush's pathetic gambit won't help McCain in the fall when he loses by ten points in the general and the Senate gets a 60+ majority.
If Congress has a lick of sense they'll just "pocket veto" this and see that the deadlock continues. No election board is better than a Rethug tool election board.
Bush's end is near...
GO BARACK!