Most Ridiculous Attack by Dems Yet

The House Dems, who clearly value diversity over ability, have released a report which easily represents the most ridiculous attack on the Bush Administration yet (from the WaPo):

President Bush's crop of political appointees includes fewer women and minorities than did President Bill Clinton's at comparable points in their presidencies, according to a new report by House Democrats.

Women made up about 37 percent of the 2,786 political appointees in the Bush administration in 2005, compared with about 47 percent in the Clinton administration in 1997, according to the report and supplemental data released last week by the Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee. Similarly, about 13 percent of Bush administration appointees last year were racial minorities, compared with 24 percent in the fifth year of Clinton's presidency, the report found.

Even the Dems house organ, the Washington Post, couldn't allow that report to go unchallenged:

What the report does not mention, however, is that Bush has established a record of diversity in his Cabinet. Bush's Cabinet, which includes the vice president and the heads of 15 executive departments, currently has two Hispanics, two African Americans and two Asian Americans. Three departments -- State, Education and Labor -- are headed by women, and a fourth, Interior, has an acting secretary who is a woman.

Before Bush took office, no minority had occupied any of the four highest-profile Cabinet positions -- attorney general and the secretaries of the Defense, State and Treasury departments. Now, Alberto R. Gonzales, a Hispanic, is attorney general. Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to be secretary of state; her predecessor, Colin L. Powell, was the first African American named to that post.

While a report like this may get the Dems all a'twitter, most Americans simply don't care who gets appointed to government jobs, providing that they're the best candidate available for the position. All too often people are appointed because of their skin color, gender, or sexual orientation in order to meet some silly quota, and not because they were the best person for the job.

It appears to me that this is little more than another poorly conceived attempt at Clinton legacy repair, and yet another attempt by the Dems to divide the country along racial and gender lines.