Par For The Course

More reminders that the election didn't curb the President's worst impulses...

The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."

Eric Keroack, medical director for A Woman's Concern, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, Mass., will become deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in the next two weeks, department spokeswoman Christina Pearson said yesterday...

...The Keroack appointment angered many family-planning advocates, who noted that A Woman's Concern supports sexual abstinence until marriage, opposes contraception and does not distribute information promoting birth control at its six centers in eastern Massachusetts...

Here is the general rule for how the President picks someone to serve in these positions: Pick the person whose personal beliefs most directly contradict the stated objectives and goals of the organization you are appointing him to. Watch as he uses his position to subtley sabotage what progress said organization has made in recent years. Repeat.