Not So "New" After All (Bush*s new manufacturing czar)

[kskiska]

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President Bush announced Monday that he is creating a new position of manufacturing czar, otherwise known as the assistant secretary of commerce for manufacturing and services, to focus on boosting the faltering manufacturing sector.

Turns out this is not really so new, congressional and Commerce Department folks say. The existing post of assistant commerce secretary for trade development will get the new name, along with some new functions. The trade post was probably going to be eliminated anyway as part of a long-running reorganization of the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration.

"I guess we can't say the new manufacturing initiative has created at least one new job after all," a Senate Republican aide quipped to our colleague Jonathan Weisman.

And the change apparently was not Bush's idea. It was mandated in the House version of the 2004 Commerce, Justice and State appropriations bill.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27849-2003Sep4.html

[markses]

1. But Al Gore lied about the Internet

:eyes:

Imbecile Bush lies and lies and lies. Interesting to see anyone at all mention his usual prevarications...

[benfranklin1776]

3. MY GOD the lying is a regular routine about even the smallest of matters.

EVERYTHING they say turns out to be a lie. We are talking about epidemic psychopathology that infects every level of that administration and has corrupted every person in it. The fish is rotten and stinks from the head down.

[pansypoo53219]

2. man!

he can't even create ONE.