Didn't Bob Reich get hired by the securities or telecommunications industry after he helped deregulate them? I can't remember which it was. Nice work if you can get it.

Along the same lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1098618,00.html
US fires Guantanamo defence team
""The first day, when they were being briefed on the dos and don'ts, at least a couple said: 'You can't impose these restrictions on us because we can't properly represent our clients.'"
""It's like you took military justice, gave it to a prosecutor and said, 'modify it any way you want'," the source said. "The government would like to say we have done these commissions before. But what happened after [the Nazi cases] was the military justice system changed. What we have done is stupid. It is, I would say, an insult to the military, to the evolution of the military justice system. They want to take us back to 1942.""

Didn't Bob Reich get hired by the securities or telecommunications industry?

Eh? Reich's been a professor at Brandeis since leaving the administration.

As they say on Atrios, smarter monkeys please.

"Eh? Reich's been a professor at Brandeis since leaving the administration.

As they say on Atrios, smarter monkeys please."

I'm far from being a monkey. My point is that one of Clinton's officials did the same thing, I don't remember who it was, but he did do it. I think it sucks, in any case.

What's even more shameful is that there was no mention of this in the press before the Medicare bill was passed. Who knows, a couple of votes might have even switched if it had been made known that Scully was soliciting bids.

Send a copy of your comments to Bruce Babbitt. Apparently he wasn't aware of what a crucial moral issue this is.