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Over at Washington Monthly, they had a post up that I’ve been pondering for days - Meta Screw-Up. Their post is largely a quote from another post:

In the last couple of weeks, even in the minds of the lawmakers tasked with oversight, the administration’s scandals and screw-ups have started to blur together into one Meta Screw-Up — a situation in which every procedural safeguard, institutional norm, and carefully designed plan seems to have “just melted into oblivion with this sloppy administration,” as Senator Dianne Feinstein put it at the Mueller hearing. The impression that we are, by now, witnessing the unfolding of one giant, undifferentiated scandal is compounded by the sense that this is some kind of watershed moment: The U.S. attorneys affair unleashed last Thursday’s complaint that Bush partisans meddled with a Justice Department tobacco prosecution, which unleashed Monday’s accusation that the General Services Administration was misused for political ends, and on and on.

Consider Lurita Doan’s testimony - where her staffers reported a briefing from the White House Office of political affairs, after which she instructed them to find ways to use GSA to help Republicans. Her lame response, “I don’t recall using those words.” Watching Braley tear Doan apart was one of the funniest moments of political theatre in the last decade. “I assume give your past experience you’ve sat through powerpoint presentations before . . . information is projected in slides . . . to reinforce verbally the information given in the slides . . .”

The Bush Administration - from top to bottom - is beyond corrupt. Many of these individuals truly believe that using the government for partisan political purposes is not only acceptable but is in fact necessary. Consider Sampson’s statement - that political and performance issues are the same. The notion that government agencies should first and foremost serve all the people, not politics, is alien to the conservative dogma this administration wholeheartedly embraces. Everything - every aspect of government - under the control of this Administration has been relentlessly, amorally, politicized.

Consider this quote from The Gavel:

A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has repeatedly altered scientific field reports to minimize protections for imperiled species and disclosed confidential information to private groups seeking to affect policy decisions, the department’s inspector general concluded.

Almost immediately upon taking office, Bush appointees scrubbed the CDC website of any information favorable to comprehensive sexuality education. They removed data about the effectiveness of condoms in preventing STIs.

For years the blogosphere has joked “Reality has a liberal bias.” The Bushies have been at war with reality since day one - and it won’t stop until we American citizens salt the earth from which this twisted, corrupt, administration sprang.

This entry was posted Friday, March 30th, 2007 at 10:30 am and is filed under Alberto Gonzales, Conservative Sell-Outs, Conservatives, Democracy, George W. Bush, Political Corruption, Republicans. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.