GOODY TWO SHOES: Grassley To Bush: Why Aren’t You Hiring More Veterans?
The Washington Post reports that Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) wrote to President Bush on February 27th, asking the administration to “establish” the goal that veterans make up 10 percent of all new hires because “the federal government has a special obligation to look to veterans first when federal jobs come open.” Karl Zinsmeister, the president's domestic policy adviser, sent Grassley a glad-handing response that referred to the 2008 State of the Union address in which Bush talked about the need for “creating new hiring preferences for military spouses across the federal government” but did not address Grassley’s request. Not easily deterred, the Senator took another stab at it, writing in a second letter to the president about the “wide disparity between various departments and agencies in terms of their success in recruiting and hiring veterans.” This time he asked the president to “commit” to the 10 percent goal and set a deadline for a response.
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