Bird’s-Eye View

Add this to the list of scandals during the Bush administration:

Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke the law by using politics to guide their hiring decisions for a wide range of important department positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department’s credibility and independence, an internal report concluded Monday.

When you add this to the list with the Valerie Plame scandal, no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, failure to finish the job in Afghanistan, secret wiretapping, attacking veterans who are political opponents like John Kerry and Max Cleland, closed-door energy policy meetings, poor conditions at Walter Reed, Katrina … is it really any wonder why some in this country feel the need for a savior from the opposition party?