Arianna Huffington is currently writing a new book entitled "Fanatics, Fools and Alpha Males", which will be published in March by Miramax Books. As a subscriber to her columns, I received this message today:
"In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'm sending you a succulent slice from the book (you'll have to provide your own stuffing). It's a collection of resignation letters written by disaffected members of the Bush administration who so disagreed with administration policies that they preferred the uncertainty of the unemployment line to toeing the party line.
I've also taken the liberty of including excerpts from what I imagine the first drafts of these letters might have looked like."
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Mike Dombeck, Forest Service Chief resigned on March 27th 2001 after 4 years on the job.
What he wrote in his resignation letter: “It was made clear in no uncertain terms that the administration wants to take the Forest Service in another direction…”
What Mike Dombeck wrote in the first draft of his resignation letter: “It was made clear in no uncertain terms that the administration needs to kiss a little logging industry ass, having gotten nearly $300,000 in donations during the 2000 election (10 times more than Al Gore). Mr. President, after all that bark-bussing and timber-tonguing, it’s a wonder you didn’t get splinters in your lip or a very painful STD (Sequoia Transmitted Disease).
Fact: Before the US Forest Service approves a timber sale on federal land, loggers are currently required to study the impact on endangered animals and salmon runs. The Bush White House is pushing to overturn both of these requirements.
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