"It's unfair of the administration to hurt these families," he added, rendering all logic and emotion supposedly superfluous.
He said it was unfair that the administration was imposing stricter reporting requirements on unions than on corporations or on many nonprofit organizations.
"I think it's so unfair of the administration to hurt these families, to make them think this has something to do with them when, in fact, it doesn't", said Mr Inhofe.
Powell alone seemed to lay the entire weight of his support for racial preferences on "diversity".For those hoping that the court will now overrule Bakke and sweep aside affirmative action as anachronistic and unfair, the Bush administration's brief was a disappointment.
"See, I think it's so unfair of the administration to hurt these families, to make them think this has something to do with them when, in fact, it doesn't," Inhofe said.
Re "A Cash-Starved Peace in Kosovo" (editorial, March 7): Your portrayal of the European Union as a deadbeat donor to the struggling Kosovo administration is unfair.
Some of the president's most ardent critics and some of Israel's staunchest American defenders — two groups that are by no means mutually exclusive — have seized on what they see as the administration's unfair and unbalanced treatment of Israel and have taken their denunciations to the extremes.
Hours earlier, the conservative student co-organizers of the rally told the university they had canceled the four-day shindig, citing what they claimed to be unfair treatment by UC Berkeley administration.
The goal of the current tariffs, and of the price and quantity regulations that could replace them, is to protect American and European manufacturers from what they and the Obama administration describe as unfair competition.
But Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national immunization program until earlier this year, said that it was unfair to blame the Bush administration for the latest problems in the flu vaccine program.
