Wow, I didn't know Scott McClellan's brother headed the FDA

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

The Chimpy administration is rife with never-ending nepotism.



Scottie & Me
(formerly known as Ari & I)
White House Press Briefing with Scott McLellan
Friday, July 25, 2003 - 2:30 PM
by Russell Mokhiber

Mokhiber: Scott, two things.

1. There was a report in The Washington Post this week that a local newspaper in Baghdad was shut down and its manager was arrested because of an article that the newspaper published. U.S. officials felt that the article was an incitement to violence and a threat to human rights in Iraq. And according to the paper, U.S. military forces broke down the front door, ransacked the office and detained the newspaper's manager. Do you believe that that kind of action would be constitutional under our 1st Amendment?

2. Mokhiber: In an article in Roll Call yesterday titled, FDA's Lobbying Questioned, reports -- I understand your brother is head of the FDA -- it reports that --

Scott McClellan: I'm not lobbying him, though.

Mokhiber: It reports that the FDA, under your brother, has hooked up with the pharmaceutical industry to defeat this bill that would allow for importing drugs from Canada. And it -

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0725-10.htm

[izzie]

1. Bush ans Co has let laissie faire go bananas.

If you can make a buck kill your grandmother party.

[heidiho]

2. And the ultimate nepotism - Bush 1 and Bush Lite

Where would Chimpy be today if his last name weren't Bush?