Lurita Doan finally forced out at GSA

[Newsjock]

Source: Politico

Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, was forced to offer her resignation tonight, according to an e-mail she sent out this evening.

Doan was appointed in late May, 2006, becoming the first woman to serve as GSA Administrator. With 12,000 empioyees and a $20 billion annual budget, GSA has responsibilty for overseeing the thousands of building and properties owned by the federal government.

Doan became the subject of congressional scrutiny last year for allegedly using GSA to help Republican lawmakers win re-election. Doan denied the allegation, but her appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was disastrous. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the panel, called on Doan to resign over the allegations, but Doan refused to do so.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0408/Lurita_Doan_forced_out_at_GSA.html

[Richard Steele]

1. Ms. Doan is a traitor to this nation, and belongs in a cell. nm

[TheDebbieDee]

5. I agree. She should be living in a jail cell

next to Alphonse Jackson!

Criminals, all of them!

[mwb970]

19. Another bush cockroach, scuttling from the light.

Disgusting. All of them. Just disgusting.

[Patsy Stone]

2. About damn time

I guess her work destroying America was done.

[mod mom]

24. Now she needs to face real justice-behind bars!

[Patsy Stone]

32. That would be sweet

And it goes for the whole sorry lot of them. Personally, I'd like to buy some people a one way ticket to The Hague.

And bleever's right: Why now? What possessed them? Is this to stave off some sort of investigation of criminal conviction?

[HughMoran]

3. Yay!

Love to hear about any small victories against these slimy bastards.

[mcctatas]

4. Hmmmm....

wonder what that's all about, new scandal? More likely she didn't bow and avert her eyes the last time the chimp saw her, because if bush has shown anything during his tenure it's that incompetence is acceptable, but not puckering up big enough when you kiss his ass is terminal...

[Critters2]

6. That's a surprise. She survived this moment,

the brilliant questioning of her by Congressman Braley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOvVbOsVs1E&feature=related

I could watch this over and over.

[pfitz59]

43. Rep Braley is awesome....

Doan belongs in prison!

[quiet.american]

7. Took long enough. Give it a week, though, and she'll surface at the Heritage Foundation.

Or whatever. It's hard to keep cockroaches down.

[Roy]

10. Or CNN n/t

[Mind_your_head]

8. Okay, okay......I'm still here reading.......this is too funny to pass up

From the link - Doan's email:

"These accomplishments are made even more enjoyable by the fact that there were lots of people who told us they could never be done."

Lorita, you're "done"....until you get a cushy (i.e., low-scrutiny job at some "foundation" somewhere ~ which if they keep hiring low-intelligence/performing idjuts like you....will AlSO be 'done'! And the world will say "hallalejah"! when you're all 'done'

[L. Coyote]

9. FINALLY!! Now, let the indictments begin. Rove was part of the politicization at GSA too!

The slideshow is peanuts. It's the money we need to follow now. Who paid to play (get paid)?

[rhett o rick]

33. Why didn't teflon Karl have to testify? nm

[Mind_your_head]

11. Who will be kind enough to give this "one more rec"

Folks at DU need to keep up with the "wanderings" of these criminals, after all!

[rhett o rick]

38. I did, but I must say it doesn't become u to beg for rec's. nm

[Mind_your_head]

12. Merci beaucoup eom

[bleever]

13. What's forcing her out?

Her failure is complete, isn't it?

Is there actual liability under judicial action to be pushed off by booting Lurita at this point?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Mind_your_head]

14. Good question...... who/what is forcing her out

and what/who will be her replacement....

I can be quite sure that "for decent people" the replacement will be far less than 'acceptable'.

[Scairp]

15. She had powerful friends

Because she should have been gone the day after her testimony before Congress. It was disgraceful to see someone in her position so obviously lying through their teeth.

[aquart]

16. What am I missing? Why NOW?

[lisa58]

17. better late than never...but who asked her to resign?

[mcollier]

18. Great News - End to the incompetent and corrupt

Administration.... 8 more months....

[annabanana]

20. What's the statute of limitations on violations of the Hatch Act?

And just what are the qualifications for membership at the Heritage Foundation, anyway?

[kimmylavin]

21. Ugh.

She actually expressed gratitude for having served a "great president".

Hmm... she thinks that AND her memory is addled.
I'm starting to see some sort of connection between working for Mr. Bush and having your mind going completely to hell.

[xchrom]

22. ...

:applause:

[Sedona]

23. Why didn't this happen in a Friday news dump?

....waiting for another shoe to drop.

:shrug:

[bluesmail]

25. Being that she's a woman and taking the fall for KKKRove

I don't think we'll be seeing much of her in the future

[mod mom]

26. Her resignation letter is enough to make you puke: "restored fiscal discipline"

"The past twenty-two months have been filled with accomplishments: together, we have regained our clean audit opinion, restored fiscal discipline, re-tooled our ability to respond to emergencies, rekindled entrepreneurial energies, reduced bureaucratic barriers to small companies to get a GSA Schedule, ignited a building boom at our nation’s ports of entries, boldly led the nation in an aggressive telework initiative, and improved employee morale so that we were selected as one of the best places to work in the Federal government."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0408/Lurita_Doan_forced_out_at_GSA.html

It would be funny if she wasn't responsible for so much damage :mad:

[peace frog]

27. Good riddance

to bad rubbish. She'll never see the inside of a cell, more's the pity.

[whistle]

28. This woman was worse than a cockroach, she was a termite eating

...away at the very foundation of U.S. Governmental operations playing favorites with contract awards to line her own ockets and placing cronies who did her bidding in key positions throughout GSA. I hope the democrats make it their goal to never again allow such corruption in high office.

[The Wizard]

29. Another Bush cartel lieutenant

leaves before charges are filed. There's not one honest broker among them. The Bush/Cheney regime needs to be designated for special treatment.

[MadMaddie]

41. Treason and high crimes have no sell by date.....

They are dropping faster and faster....the investigations are taking their toll.

I bet you when the organization finally gets audited the truth will be worse then anything we can imagine.

[ShortnFiery]

30. Oh Happy Day! Lurita Doan was, IMO, one of the smarmiest of the BushBotBorg.

:thumbsup: :toast: :party:

[nwliberalkiwi]

31. What Shall We Do

BOOK THE BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eurobabe]

34. What's disgusting is that it TOOK so looooooooooooong

to get rid of UneedaRita.

[Parche]

35. I See Darrell Issa Crying Now

Along with Dan "Its Clinton's Fault) Burton.......
:grr: :grr:


She was the biggest dingbat of them all.........................

[tabasco]

36. Bush has packed the whole government full of crooks!

I have never seen the US government so through and through CORRUPT!

If it looks like the mafia and acts like the mafia - it IS the mafia!

The Bush oil mafia!

[cascadiance]

37. I've been always meaning to try and dig to find who Doan worked with at Sun Micro...

since I worked there many years back. I still have some friends that work there, and though Scott McNeilly and the company was a grand stander at times, it seems like they still were good ethically when I worked there.

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/04/sun_microsystem.html

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

39. Does anyone remember a video someone made of her

testimony to congress, where they added graphics to it, for comedy relief? It was very very funny, and it should be resurrected. One of the scenes was her "targeted Democrats" that had been photoshopped to be "Democrats targeted to have an anvil dropped on their heads." Very good stuff!

[Uncle Joe]

40. She was a hard pill to swallow. n/t

[progressoid]

42. Yeah, I heard all about this on the TV news

NOT!