Justice Department replete with law-breakers it seems

Here's a story that confirms what many of us have suspected. The Bush administration is not only incompetent, but they broke the law too.

I refer you to this morning's post about Corporatism where I noted that patronage is more akin to Fascist Italy under Mussolini.

The Justice Department under the Bush administration became a place where loyalty to party and party boss (read: the President) superseded competency and ability.

Bush demonstrated his utter hypocrisy by trumpeting the free market and the value of competition, but followed a completely different plan (namely, a spoils system) when it came to running the government.

The Justice Department folks who brought us this stunning display of incompetency were represented by a lawyer and Republican party Storm Troopette, Monica Goodling. Incidentally, she obtained her legal education under the auspices of Regents University Law School (Pat Robertson's religiously affiliated university).

For a graduate of a school started and operated by a televangelist who touts high moral standards, Ms. Goodling certainly took the low road to criminality and ethical perdition in the service of her Fuhrer, I mean President.

Mukasey should prosecute the bad actors, but I suspect he won't since that would give a black eye to his patron and give the rest of us too great a shock. Many of us have known all along that Bush and his kind are a bunch of sleazeballs. For Mukasey to actually do his job as Attorney General would be too out of character for a Bush appointee.

Despite what people wish to believe, it's much better to have a Justice Department devoid of partisanship---OF ANY KIND. Those advocating partisan application of the law suffer from the same old ideology that fuels the likes of Fox News--that everyone has an agenda so it's okay to be partisan to somehow "balance" the world with a particular version of the truth.

This doesn't work. We're seeing the results of this approach to government.

Where's Dick Nixon when you need him? At least he was competent.