Flutterby™! : Another Bush winner

President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr, has says that 'Homosexuality Isn't Natural or Healthy':

"You have to wonder given the quality of some of the nominations that have gone forward recently, whether the selection group in the White House has gone on vacation," Gergen said. "There has been a growing criticism the administration favoring ideology over competence, and this nomination smacks of that."

How has Mary Cheney managed to go through life without laying some well-needed public smackdown on her father? I guess some people really can handle that level of cognitive dissonance with appearing batshit insane, at least not publicly so. But given the current level of politics and personality in this culture, I guess that appearing sane is a relative thing.