Here's a news story that may mushroom into a major controversy…and probably should. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson bragged to a gathering of folks from minority-owned real estate companies that one of their own lost a lucrative contract just because he uttered the words, "I don't like President Bush." And the contractor didn't even say that in public. He said it on the phone to Jackson.
So follow this: They decide some real estate company is worthy of a contract. Then they take it away from him just because the guy there said he didn't like Bush. Then they tell this story to people from other real estate companies as a warning.
There are many reasons Bush is around a 31% approval rating. One of them is the perception that this administration cannot deal — rationally or even ethically — with anything short of blind loyalty and agreement.