The Fading Administration

I don't think many people believe this, but the worst effect of the Bush administration will be in the long run neither the Iraq War nor the corruption of Congress. It will be the politicization of the Federal bureaucracy. Carmen and I noticed it first when the leadership of Social Security started shilling for Georgie's Social Security plan. We both realized that in all the years she had worked for Social Security nothing like that had ever happened.

Then we saw a rash of incidents like the 24 year old political commissar at NASA editing scientific reports to avoid using the term "Big Bang Theory" because it might anger Evangelicals. And it turned out that not only was he not a scientist, nor experienced in anything, he had lied on his resume.

Now we have this gem* from the Dept of Justice. The first job of the next admin, Demo or Repub, will be to clean these incompetent hacks out and replace them with competent, experienced professionals.

We'll see.


*I should point out that this is the official from Justice who is taking the 5th and refusing to testify, which means, despite what her lawyer says, she is afraid it can be used to prove she committed a crime. Not an error of judgement, not an act of miscommunication or misspeaking. A crime.