Boss Tweed Would Be Proud

One of the best things about the ongoing prosecutor scandal is how it's ripped the lid off of the administration's corruption and the lengths to which the Rupublicans have subverted the mechanisms of government into their own, private political machine – the sheer scope and audacity of which dwarves past greats like Tammany Hall. But the politicization of the Department of Justice is surely only the tip of the iceberg. Such rule twisting and altering to get “Bushies” into places of power has happened in the DoJ, the Coalition Political Authority, and the only question now is where it hasn't taken place. Eight years of Republican rule under Mr. Bush will have left us with a bureaucracy full not of competent, dedicated professionals but of loyal ideologues. And we're going to be paying the price for it for years to come.