No rep left unblemished

The toxicity of the Bush years is simply amazing. So much so that I am not sure we can even lay all of the blame at the foot of the Bushies' mismanagement. (Not that I wouldn't be willing to try). Here's a squib from Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post.

Rebecca Christie and Matthew Benjamin write for Bloomberg about Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson: "[T]wo months before he leaves office, Paulson is a reduced figure, damaged by the financial-market meltdown that happened on his watch and by the government's struggles to respond to it.

"Like many others who have served in President George W. Bush's administration . . . Paulson, 62, will leave office casting a smaller shadow than when he arrived. . . .

And Chris Matthews seems to be setting up a countdown to when Scooter Libby will be pardoned.