Only Conformity is Acceptable

Thanks go Gizmodo.com for this example of how our government is yet again overstepping its bounds:

At least four of the two dozen or so U.S. delegates selected for the [multi-national] meeting [on telecom standards], sources tell TIME [magazine], have been bumped by the White House because they supported John Kerry's 2004 campaign.

They've managed to blacklist those from an industry function for which politics should not be an issue. What the hell is going on?

Says Nokia vice president Bill Plummer: "We do not view sending experts to international meetings on telecom issues to be a partisan matter. We would welcome clarification from the White House."