Small Business Administration Commentary (Kerry mentioned)

Commentary: Bush’s Overall Arrogance and Dismissiveness Have Rubbed Off on His Agencies
Date: Sunday, June 04, 2006
By: Deborah Mathis, BlackAmericaWeb.com

If you think the high arrogance of the Bush administration is confined to its dismissiveness about Abu Ghraib; its shrugging off the admonitions of former military brass; its bogus rationale, management and cost of the war in Iraq; its domestic spying and its insistence on tax cuts for people with money to burn, think again.

Apparently, there is no limit, there are no edges, there are no boundaries to Bushist hubris. Even a relatively backwater agency like the Small Business Administration has got Can’t Touch This fever.

Since then, both House and Senate members have demanded an accounting from the SBA, having grown suspicious of its secrecy and of repeated charges that the agency, indeed, has plenty good reason to hide its records.

Proving that it is non-partisan in its intransigence and disrespect, then-SBA Administrator Hector Barreto (Barreto resigned in late May to become head of The Latino Coalition advocacy group in Washington) and his staff ignored demands from a federal district court judge; Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., the ranking member of the House Small Business Committee; Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., ranking member of the Senate Small Business Committee, and, recently, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Not so much as a “bug off” from SBA.

Proof once more that Bush is nothing short of a crook.

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