Potential Drug Czar Kerlikowske Is, Like, Totally Mellow With the Fine Bud
If, as is currently being suggested, current Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske is designated "Drug Czar" by President Obama, we can expect a lot more Seattle bashing about our city's lax drug laws. Or at least so far as pot is concerned. Sunday's report in The New York Times offers plenty of ammunition to Republicans who'll want to paint Kerlikowske—and by extension the whole Obama White House—as being, gasp, soft on drugs. Seems like Chief K has instructed our men and women in blue to look the other way during Hempfest and other occasions of Northwest green celebration. Maybe the GOP will even call Norm Stamper to DC for Senate confirmation hearings. In the same NYT piece, the former chief of police—who lost his job along with Paul Schell following the 1999 WTO debacle—sounds more than a little bitter about Kerlikowske getting the national attention he surely coveted. Norm, dude, take a chill pill. (Or whatever substitute you prefer up in the San Juans.) And Gil, as the NYT mentions, if you get the gig in DC, remember not leave your gun in an unlocked car. Because that is totally not cool.
4 comment(s)
Sunil Aggarwal says:
eh? drug czar not a cabinet level position requiring Senate confirmation?
fact check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_National_Drug_Control_Policy
Posted On: Monday, Feb. 16 2009 @ 6:07AM
Spaulding says:
@ Sunil
Be careful citing Wikipedia as authority. Here's a link to a primary source listing cabinet positions. I don't see Drug Czar on the list.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet/
Posted On: Monday, Feb. 16 2009 @ 8:49AM
Tom says:
Definitely requires Senate confirmation. Do a little research and look at how the last drug czar was confirmed by the Senate, Please.
Posted On: Monday, Feb. 16 2009 @ 9:06AM
Travis says:
The only people that will give a shit are the ones that have been brainwashed into thinking weed is a bad drug. It doesn't take a genius to realize weed is much less dangerous and intoxicating than alcohol. If the government didn't release all those negative pot commercials, maybe people would view it with an open mind (Or maybe that's just too much to ask for in the great USA today).
Posted On: Wednesday, Feb. 18 2009 @ 11:10AM