Goeglein resigns White House as admitted plagiarist
Most of you have not heard of Tim Goeglein, the White House liaison to pro-family policy groups in DC.
According to the New York Times, among other news sources:
A longtime aide to President Bush who wrote occasional guest columns for his hometown newspaper resigned on Friday evening after admitting that he had repeatedly plagiarized from other writers.
That was Tim. I have known Goeglein for several years and am sorry he plagiarized and feel bad he had to resign a high position in disgrace. But I’m not so sorry to see him gone.
Goeglein was a nice man, but it was common thought in the pro-family public policy circle that communication with Goeglein was 1-way. He disseminated information on President Bush’s behalf to pro-family groups but did not necessarily return the favor….
I spoke to Tim several times about the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. It is there, but it is not being enforced.
I even had a meeting with Tim and a couple others at the White House this past December. I provided several points of evidence that babies are still being wantonly aborted alive and left to die around the county, along with actions the President could take to make the law work without any input from the Democrat-controlled Congress. I worried at the time whether that meeting was simply to placate me, and it was. Nothing ever came of it.
I do not blame the President for any of this. Tim said at that meeting, “Jill, I promise you, if the President were sitting here with us, he would say to enforce the law.” I really believe that. The problem is the President was not there, and I don’t think he ever knew.
There is still time in these last months of President Bush’s time in office to take specific actions to make Born Alive work. Perhaps a new pro-family gatekeeper to the President will get him the information.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
How should the government enforce it?
Honestly, I don’t know how you can expect any kind of action from the Bush administration. These are people who sincerely believe that government does not work, and they’ve done everything they can for the past seven years to prove it. I don’t know how anyone can vote Republican knowing what these clowns stand for: broken, corrupt government and huge cash giveaways for the rich.
This is just like every crony that Bush brought with him. A liar and a cheat.
Bush wasn’t in the meeting because he doesn’t care. He won the election with help from the religious base and now he leaves them to whine and cry. He also wasn’t there because he was busy worrying about bombing some kids in the middle east….
“I do not blame the President for any of this”
So much for “the buck stops here” mentality.
Bush surrounds himself with incompetents (or worse)
and people think that excuses him from responsibility.
Reality, PeachPit: Learn to think on your own. Your cliches are so worn and old.
Jill,
they can’t help it, they suffer from Bush Derangement syndrome.
Jasper… haha, true.
Have you ever read “Tempting Faith” by David Kuo?
It’s a book by a devout Christian and committed Republican who was stunned by the Bush Administration’s contempt for Bible-based “values voters.”
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Book Description
David Kuo came to Washington wanting to use his Christian faith to end abortion, strengthen marriage, and help the poor. He reached the heights of political power, ultimately serving in the White House under George W. Bush, after being policy adviser to John Ashcroft and speechwriter for Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, and Bob Dole. It was a dream come true: the chance to fuse his politics and his faith, and an opportunity for Christians not just to gain a seat at the proverbial table but to plan the entire meal.
Kuo spent nearly three years as second in command at the president’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Yet his experience was deeply troubling. It took both the Bush White House and a severe health crisis to show him how his Christian values, and those of millions of Americans, were being corrupted by politics.
Instead of following the teachings of Jesus to serve the needy, Kuo found himself helping to manipulate religious faith for political gain. Public funds were used in battleground states, for Republican campaign events. The legislative process was used as a football, not to pass laws but to deepen purely symbolic fault lines. Grants were incestuously recycled to political cronies. Both before and after 9/11, despite lofty rhetoric from the president claiming that his faith-based program was one of his most important initiatives, there was no serious attempt to fund valuable charities.
Worst of all was the prevailing attitude in the White House and throughout Washington toward Christian leaders. Key Bush aides and Republican operatives spoke of them with contempt and treated them as useful idiots. It became clear, during regular conference calls arranged from the White House with a key group of Christian leaders, that many of these religious leaders had themselves been utterly seduced by politics.
It is time, Kuo argues, for Christians to take a temporary step back from politics, to turn away from its seductions. Tempting Faith is equal parts headline-making expos
What’s your point FF? That politicans use people? Big shock.
So he committed plagiarism? SO WHAT!?!?
So did MARTIN LUTHER KING JR!?!?
MLK was a big time plagiarist and yet he is honored with a special day to remember him across the nation each year.
Perhaps we should change it from MLK Day to Civil Rights Day. Why give all the honor to an adulterous plagiarist like MLK??
Or maybe we can give Goeglein his own special day.
I have a dream.
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Oh Jill, George is such a great pro life figure…remember when he pushed to have roe vs. wade overturned? Remember when he pushed the marriage amendment through. You were used in 04. Kill more babies that are not american. That is pro life.
by the way, way to stick up for a liar and a cheat
MLK was a big time plagiarist and yet he is honored with a special day to remember him across the nation each year.
Perhaps we should change it from MLK Day to Civil Rights Day. Why give all the honor to an adulterous plagiarist like MLK??
MLK was such a dog! His wife stuck by him, but he was such a carouser. It was a big joke with his “insiders” but you don’t hear much about it.
No freaking way. I
Forgive ME, but more about the subject, please!! You are going away from the topic too frequently, therefore it is uneasy to read your posts.