Rahm Rips
Recently, even those who had become somewhat inured to the intense partisanship of this Administration were shocked by the political manipulation of our U.S. Attorneys. And we have just begun to feel the impact of this scandal. Just as Hurricane Katrina exposed the issue of incompetence, the U.S. Attorney scandal has placed a spotlight on the Administration\ufffds pattern of always placing the Republican Party\ufffds interests before the public interest.
Tammany Hall had nothing on team Bush.
The person chosen to oversee Iraq\ufffds health care system was the community health director for the former Republican governor of Michigan. The man he replaced was a physician with a master\ufffds degree in public health and post-graduate degrees from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and UC-Berkeley and taught at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where he specialized in disaster response.
Even today, after three months of interviews and investigations and public discussion we still do not know who drafted the list of U.S. attorneys to be fired.
Principals and supporters of the Bush Administration have taken to attributing its myriad failures to mere incompetence. This is an ironic defense for an Administration that once touted President Bush as the first MBA President and boasted about a cabinet filled with CEOs.
This is a long one but well worth reading. He captures the theme of what governance has become under Team Bush. I don't think I can use the word 'Republican' with this crew. I'm not sure if 'American' is justified.