Letters to the Editor
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Running out the clock
Ever since Cheney's energy policy meetings, the administration has had one area, anyway, in which its success is undeniable. That is, creating an imperious and imperial presidency that thumbs its nose at all oversight, and does whatever it wants without any annoying scrutiny from the people who (sort of) elected it.
One can imagine the overflowing wastebaskets in the White House filled with balled up subpoenas, stern letters, and even criminal convictions, tossed there by the contemptuous authoritarians in charge. Expect any queries about Mukasey's egregious dissembling to be flying across the room right now, heading for the pile.
If insanity means doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result, the Bushies may have their flaws, but insanity is not among them.
Trotting out "nonpartisan" faux saints like McConnell, Petraeus, Mukasey, Powell, and on and on has always worked for them, so why stop now? Far be it for the media to ever look askance at any of these worthies after one lie or so, when they still dutifully write down and publish the words of Bush, Rice, Rove, and Cheney after hundreds of proven lies.
Similarly, when every agency from the DOJ to the EPA is run by a cabal of hacks, each insisting that its inner workings are nobody's business, don't expect any response from Mukasey's risible excuse for a "Justice" Department.
Mukasey was hired to run out the clock on administration criminality, and he's doing so beautifully. He oughtn't have the kind of trouble finding a job that Gonzales has.