Future Leaders of the United States of America? I HOPE NOT!

Posted 4/10/07
The UnbelievaBUSH corruption continues.Every day brings to light just how deep the corruption goes.
Monica Goodling, top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is the center of the Gonzalesgate. Well, well, well, one would think that the President would want to be surrounded and supported by the best and the brightest minds in the nation. But, I suppose that isn’t true. For instance: Ms. Goodling graduated from Regent University of Law (founded by televangelist Pat Robertson) in 1999. Bush must owe a lot of favors to Robertson, either for votes or donation. The law school was founded in 1986 and accredited in 1996. . It has traditionally admitted just about anyone who applied. And only 40% passed the bar exam, ranked dead last among law schools. The 2007 law school review read that Regent has improved to a ranking of 168th out of the 181 ranked. Regent now has a 61% bar exam pass rate. That doesn’t sound like a super great place to be picking our leaders. It has now been discovered that the Bush administration has hired 150 Regent alumni since Bush took office in 2001. WHAT? Yes it is true. Goodling herself, had scant prosecutorial experience, her qualifications to evaluate the performance of U.S. attorneys is under fire. It use to be that the DOJ jobs were given to the best legal minds in the country. Not anymore. In 2001, Bush chose Kay Coles James (the dean of Regent’s government school) to head the Office of Personnel Management.—essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. After that, Regent alumni began to feel the halls of DOJ. “No wonder the President gets bad legal advice.” It didn’t hurt that in 2002, John Ashcroft, then the AG, changed the longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks.

Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking students from elite schools. In a recent Regent school newsletter, a 2004 graduate described being interviewed for a job as a trial attorney at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in 2003. Asked to name the Supreme Court decision from the past 20 years with which he most disagreed, he cited Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling striking a law against sodomy because it violated gay people’s civil rights.

As the dean of a tier four, and one of the lowest ranked law schools in the United States, Jeffrey Brauch of Regent made no apologies in a recent interview for training students to understand what the law is today, and also understand how legal rules should be changed to better reflect :eternal principles of justice<’ from divorce to abortion rights.

Come on, this is insane. This whole bunch needs to be fired. Our government needs a complete overhaul. Each day that passes brings a whole new revealed piece of corruption, cronyism, repayment of favors and general ass-kissing. How much longer can this continue?