Please read this LA Times piece.
I had heard about Fox (Swiftboat man) getting his ambassadorship but these other two appointments are just astounding. That man will not stop until he has achieved his agenda.
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As director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Susan E. Dudley will have an opportunity to
change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies.In a flurry of nominations and appointments, Bush also named a researcher at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, as deputy director of the Social Security Administration. Andrew G. Biggs has been an
outspoken proponent of converting Social Security benefits into self-directed retirement accounts, which Bush favors but Democrats have stopped cold. Bush nominated Biggs to that post in November, but the process stalled in February when the Senate Finance Committee refused to hold confirmation hearings because of his views on privatization.
And as ambassador to Belgium he installed Sam Fox, a St. Louis businessman and GOP fundraiser who
contributed $50,000 to the Swift Boat veterans' controversial campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in the 2004 presidential race. The White House actually withdrew Fox's nomination to that same job last week in the face of strong opposition from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Entire article at http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-recess5apr05,1,120878.story?coll=la-headlines-politics