I’m just pissed that I didn’t get one.
Of course, I’m a resident, and I make shit compared to the poorest of private practice doctors, so there’s no way I could donate that kind of scratch even if something happened to make me want to, like a frontal lobotomy. But my fragile ego could have used the boost of being named Physician of the Year.
I have one of you.
Send $15,900 for shipping and handling to…
There’s a difference between the AMA and the NRCC. The AMA doesn’t represent a specific political party, for example, and doesn’t use professional plaudits to raise money for something unrelated to the medical field. You know, like a political party, for example.
Well, the White House doesn’t need any help in turning it into a Motel6:
http://www.election.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/10/politics/main605028.shtml
Republican Rangers and Republican Pioneers: drop by and write your own legislation on hotel stationery. We’ll leave the light on for you.
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Waitaminutewaitaminutewaitaminute!
Isn’t this one of the things that the Republicans were all tsky-tongued and teary-eyed about with Clinton? That he was debasing the dignity of his position and of the Executive Mansion by inviting donors to stay overnight in the White House?
Why hasn’t Bush doing the same thing been a big deal?!
Liberal media, my ass…
Yep, jayjay, that’s right. You’ve apparently got a better memory than most of our fellow Americans. This was a big gripe by the Bush campaign back in 2000, and it was also a favorite complaint of partisan talk show host and 1992 Lincoln Bedroom guest Rush Limbaugh.
Honestly, I don’t see anything wrong with rewarding your political friends with a stay in the Lincoln Bedroom; this practice predates Clinton and the first Bush. However, it’s not a little bit disingenuous that Bush cried blue murder about Clinton having done it, as if it’s something unethical, but was very happy to start sending out invitations as soon as Justice Rehnquist said it was okay.
This is just one more example that all too much that the Bush campaign and administration has gotten worked up about have been non-issues designed to kick up a lot of dust but to make no difference in anything at all. If the media were really “liberal,” or if the media were even neutral, they’d raise questions to Bush like, “In 2000 you promised to ‘restore honor and dignity to the White House.’ One of your points was that President Clinton was selling the Lincoln Bedroom for political favors. Now you’re doing the same thing. How do you justify that?” Of course, the media won’t do that. To be fair, if a media outlet ever did do that they’d be banned from the White House press gallery quicker than you could say “Jeff Gannon,” so this begs the chicken-and-egg question: does the gutlessness of the media beget the White House’s aggressive contempt of the media, or is the White House’s aggressive contempt of the media the reason the media are so gutless?
This is a whole other discussion, I’m sure, but I think it’s safe to say that the media’s gutlessness goes back at least as far as the whole Monica Lewinsky affair, and even further back to the right-wing crybabies of the early 1990s who felt that the media came down hard on them when they were merely scrutinizing them like they would anyone else. Modern right-wing crybabies have cowed the media so successfully that they don’t have to worry about them, and they know that if the media wants a hot story where they can beat up on politicians, they can only go after Democrats if they don’t want unfair accusations of bias to cloud the story. I guess it’s just a matter of time before the Democrats pick up on this game, too, thus rendering open government even more difficult, if not impossible.