Protecting the Military? “Just Junk” Says Bush Court Nominee | Talking Points Memo

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On Friday, the American Bar Association hosted a conference in Washington on national security. Among the speakers was Scott Stucky, General Counsel of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and President Bush’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. When the subject of the amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that protected military families from payday lenders, according to someone in the audience, Stucky dismissed it as “junk.”

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Glad he was a Bushy. They’re flaming libs compared to Spanky’s ‘perfect’ appointments.

Especially the ones rated ‘not qualified’.

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it stuns me to see a government official dismiss that protection as “junk.”

These aren’t government officials.

Yes, they occupy government offices, but a fancy hat doesn’t turn a rat into a chef.