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| Drug Czar Selection Held Up, Souder Says |
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Posted by FoM on August 03, 2001 at 07:31:13 PT By Sylvia A. Smith, Washington Editor Source: Journal Gazette 
Senate Democrats are holding up the appointment of a new drug czar, Rep. Mark Souder, R-4th, and several other House Republicans complained Thursday. "They don't want Walters. It's really not fair," Souder said of John Walters, President Bush's choice to run the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a post often called the drug czar.Bush sent Walters' nomination to the Senate on June 5; the Judiciary Committee has not held or scheduled a hearing, which is necessary before a nomination can be voted on by the Senate. David Carle, spokesman for Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said there's no deliberate delay on Walters' confirmation. He said the panel has had a brisk schedule of nomination hearings since Democrats took control of the Senate and the committees reorganized. Carle said it's "made the most sense" to conduct hearings on non-controversial nominees. Walters has been criticized by both liberals and conservatives for his approach to drug control. He favors long prison sentences for violent felons, marijuana smugglers and repeat offenders. Barry McCaffrey, drug czar during the Clinton administration, said Walters "focuses too much on interdiction" and "needs to educate himself on prevention and treatment." But Walters has worked on the prevention and treatment issues, Souder said. He "has strong credentials and, in fact, said that's going to be his priority," he said. Souder said part of the problem is "the Senate is off on things they think are more important than the drug war; secondly (Leahy) wanted to send a signal he doesn't approve of him so much; and thirdly they may be playing some games with the Andean initiative." Souder said he thinks Senate Democrats may be trying to put off approval of Bush's drug czar until after the debate on whether to provide more money for drug-fighting in Colombia and other South American countries "because they don't want the drug czar weighing in." Source: Journal Gazette (IN) Related Articles: Looking for Leadership in the Drug War The Walters Confirmation Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #10 posted by SWAMPIE on August 05, 2001 at 02:30:11 PT |
| KAP,What a splendid comment!!I read on 8-4 that Bush is going to take a monthlong"working vacation" at his ranch in Texas!On top of 14 weekends at Camp David!!!Do you think the pressures are getting to him?Maybe he's taking a course in professional speech!That guy should have majored in tongue-twisters! A little song.DDDD......"There's Ashcroft,and Asa,and 'ol Dick Walters too!They're all so square so we'll see 'em there at the "Shrubya-Family-Zoo!!!Maybe Bush is tending his"garden"LOL!!!!!! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #9 posted by dddd on August 04, 2001 at 02:38:49 PT |
>..."Souder said part of the problem is "the Senate is off on things they think are more important than the drug war; secondly (Leahy) wanted to send a signal he doesn't approve of him so much; and thirdly they may be playing some games with the Andean initiative."< ..Listen to this legistlative demagog-cowboy,,,this is the same I forget what his is exact words were,,,but he said something to ..""the Senate is off on things they think are more important than the drug war; secondly (Leahy) wanted to send a signal he doesn't approve of him so much; and thirdly they may be playing some games with the Andean initiative.""........ to my own chagrin...dddd [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #8 posted by mayan on August 03, 2001 at 16:44:10 PT |
| "Its really not fair." Souder should try explaining what is fair to the Columbian Peasants who are probably eating glyphosphate for dinner right about now! Why do we elect people like this? Thanks for the mental images Kap'n! LOL! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #7 posted by sm247 on August 03, 2001 at 15:27:31 PT |
| Hey Redzombie !! I am from your neck of the woods too. We got a candidate running against Souder hopefully Souder will be packin (too bad not a bowl) lol [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #6 posted by boppy on August 03, 2001 at 13:48:28 PT |
| I had remarked before about Souder and his whiney fellow Hoosier buddies, Dan Burton and Dan Quayle. This guy doesn't care what kind of attention he gets, good or bad (It's usually bad). It's frustrating when our local politicians continually make buffoons of themselves and the stae of Indiana. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #5 posted by New Mexican on August 03, 2001 at 13:39:14 PT |
| Thank you for the vision! I will never be able to watch C-Span again without thinking of you apt description, as it is absolutely correct. I think we need GreenPeace to hang a banner across the halls of Congress that proclaims: This is the day care center your tax dollars are being wasted on! Grow up George, Dick, Carl, Ari, Lott, Delay and all the rest of you fratbrats! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #4 posted by jorma nash on August 03, 2001 at 12:24:19 PT |
i think his words reveal his emotional age quite well... [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by REDZOMBIE on August 03, 2001 at 08:39:58 PT |
| This comes from my hometown. Mark Souder has spent the last 10 years trying to move the IN drinking limit down to .08 from .10 [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by Patrick on August 03, 2001 at 08:18:35 PT |
| That mental image that you shared is making me laugh too! Wish it wasn't so sad at the same time though. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by kaptinemo on August 03, 2001 at 07:59:04 PT:
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| "Senate Democrats are holding up the appointment of a new drug czar, Rep. Mark Souder, R-4th, and several other House Republicans complained Thursday. "They don't want Walters. It's really not fair," Souder said of John Walters, President Bush's choice to run the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a post often called the drug czar." When I first saw this, I broke out in derisive laughter; my co-workers thought I was nuts. The mental image of Souder, with a grown man's head and an infants' body, laying on his back in his crib, kicking his legs and waving his fists impotently and crying "Waaaaah!" came unbidden, and it just cracked me up. Souder is the prime engineer behind the "get caught with a joint, lose your college school loan" law. As such, he is hardly the arbiter of what's 'fair'. He reminds me of a bully who, when the other kids finally get sick of his predations, gang up on him and whup his *ss, screams about being picked on. After all he's done, all the damage, the sorrows, the lives either delayed or destroyed by his stupid law, he has the brass balls to whine about the selection process as being 'unfair'? I have no love for Dems or Reps, none at all. A pox on both their houses (spitting sound). But the Dems are now doing to the Reps what the Reps did to the Dems in holding up Klintons' judicial appointements. Just like your everyday, common immature children's tit-for-tat. You have to laugh at it, it's so jejeune and foolish for grown men to act this way. But it's politics in America... Sometimes, I think Congress is the world's largest, best funded day-care center on the planet. The only problem is, the matrons are missing, and the brats are left to their own devices. With bloody mischief as a result. [ Post Comment ] |
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