I haven’t followed the US Attorneys’ scandal very closely, so I don’t know if there’s any there, there. Seems to me if the Senate is going to go ahead and confirm the guy who was in charge of OLC during its elaborate attempt to rationalize the divine right of elected kings, it’s not on very firm ground getting upset over what, if true, is a misdemeanor offense by comparison.

Of course, that’s not to deny that the scandal has its amusing aspects. Take Monica Goodling for example. She’s living proof that Tracy Flick wasn’t a figment of Alexander Payne’s imagination. This Legal Times profile tells the fascinating story of how Stakhanovite devotion to the president and first rate brownie-baking skills got a graduate of Pat Robertson’s law school (”top 10.5 percent of class“!) into a position where she’s hiring and firing US attorneys. As the friend who sent the article asks, “Can you imagine having this appended to every email you send?”:

“There were many chances to lose our heart, our nerve, or our way. But Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. … And we know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat; it is courage.”
–President George w. Bush

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