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The kid resigns - another crony flushed out
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A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA

George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

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Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.

"He's only a bit player," Dr. Hansen said of Mr. Deutsch. " The problem is much broader and much deeper and it goes across agencies. That's what I'm really concerned about."

"On climate, the public has been misinformed and not informed," he said. "The foundation of a democracy is an informed public, which obviously means an honestly informed public. That's the big issue here."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08nasa.html

Bush obviously has yet to learn about what happens when appointing cronies and flunkies in various political positions. And as I said before, the kid made a good scapegoat when the big boys' agenda pushing got snagged.

Starting to remind me of the 1977 film Telefon.

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