We haven’t talked much about the US Attorney scandal much here. I actually find the whole thing sort of anticlimactic, of all the illegal, corrupt things this administration did this is the one that finally seems to stick. I still find the administration’s view that they can lock anyone up for no reason with no charges to be the most offensive thing they have done (aside from the war), because the idea flies in the face of the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitution and founding principles of this country.

The disturbing thing about the US Attorney story is not the purge of people who weren’t doing what the admin. wanted, or the “lost” emails, or trying to argue that executive privilege extends to the operation of the RNC, but the clear evidence from this that Bush & Co. never intended to actually govern this country. They staffed everything with hack with no experience. There were people at high levels in justice for whom it was there first job outside of political campaigning. They gave presentations to the GSA about how to help republican candidates. They gave key jobs in the Coalition Provisional Authority to 20-somethings with no experience other than the right ideological bent. Its as if they thought that their ideology would magically make everything right and that as long as they stayed in office nothing could go wrong. But at some point the government has to stop campaigning and start governing.