Letters to the Editor
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To Spend More Time With Family ...
Don't be ridiculous! Gail Norton isn't resigning because of Jack Abramoff, she's resigning to spend more time with her family ... lots of time. 24 hours a day. All day. Seven days a week. She is obsessed with her family. All she wants to do is spend time with them. That's why she moved to Washington, DC in the first place. She just didn't realize the demands selling the nation's parks to oil and forestry executives would place on her time. Bush told her it would be easy.
btw, did you hear that Yellowstone is being renamed? ... Gail's Geyser & RV Park is what I've heard.
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Good riddance to Gale Norton!
Yes! I may get to open that bottle of champagne that's been waiting for some good news for a long time.
Just last night, I was wondering how soon the rats would start leaving the ship. With Bush's naked emperor's body coming into Americans' sights, it seemed likely that the exodus would begin before years 7.5 and 8. If Norton gets some comeuppance for corruption, all the better. Hope it helps scuttle the revived push to open ANWR and ill-advised sales of Federal lands, too.
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Time for Gale to cash in...
According to the news release, Norton is making the move to the private sector. I'm guessing either lobbyist for Exxon or head of the lumberjack's union (no offense to you lumberjacks out there).
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Don't get too excited...
Ari Fleischer's spending time with his family too. This doesn't mean they won't just find someone equally odious as a replacement.
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Who could ever replace Gayle Norton?
After praising Gayle Norton's accomplishments during her tenure George W. Bush said he'd be hard pressed to find someone as good as she was.
The President was on the phone to James G. Watt shortly thereafter.
(ps: this is sarcasm)
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Norton out, How about Richard Pombo?
A frequent approach to find an Interior Secretary is to take a western Congressman with experience in Interior Department affairs. Seems like Richard Pombo (R) Tracy California and expert on the Endangered Species Act and property owner rights is the logical choice. That also gets him off the hook running for Congress in a district that is increasingly Democratic instead of full of farmers and ranchers and would be a choice popular with conservatives everywhere. Any scuttlebutt out there?