By any reasonable measure, moving John Solomon from the AP to the Washington Post seems to have worked out pretty well for both parties. In Today’s WaPo Solomon very nearly earns his salary:
In the past few months, revelations about a few dozen political briefings that Rove’s team conducted at federal agencies and several election-related slides from those briefings have touched off investigations into whether the White House improperly politicized federal workers or misused government assets to win elections.
Investigators, however, said the scale of Rove’s effort is far broader than previously revealed; they say that Rove’s team gave more than 100 such briefings during the seven years of the Bush administration. The political sessions touched nearly all of the Cabinet departments and a handful of smaller agencies that often had major roles in providing grants, such as the White House office of drug policy and the State Department’s Agency for International Development.
[…] [T]he Office of the Special Counsel, which protects whistleblowers, has concluded that the Hatch Act was violated during one such briefing, conducted for General Services Administration political appointees by J. Scott Jennings, the White House’s deputy director of political affairs.
Add this to the growing pile of evidence that the government ran from top to bottom as an adjunct to the RNC. The politburo diktat.
jake
Here’s an idea for the next president. Don’t place your unqualified buddies in charge of various agencies, allow your pals to piss all over the people who’ve worked there for years and then expect those people to vote for you.
Seriously, do these guys have some sort of allergy to being honest?
BTW, I read your post. And then I read this. And then I laughed real hard.
I guess he’s still using The Math and snorting The Meth.
CalD
I’d say someone has been earning Solomon’s salary. I just wouldn’t lay any odds that it was Solomon. According to Josh Marshall, John Solomon is basically just this lazy guy who’s an easy touch for oppo researchers from either side of the aisle; his door is always open to anyone willing to do his work for him. When I read that my first thought was “Well heck, why don’t the good guys start giving him stuff to publish then?” Perhaps someone has.
rachel
Heck, don’t even expect them to keep their lips zipped about the unethical, illegal and/or incompetent things you’ve been doing when the reporters and Congress come knocking–or to just keep their lips zipped.
TenguPhule
At this point, can Anarchy be any worse then the shit we have for government now?
We are no longer a nation of laws, we’re a nation of “I can do whatever the fuck I please and what the fuck are you going to do to stop me?”
I never understood how the Roman Empire could fall apart in the hands of the crazies…until now.
CDB
By not calling the Emperor on his new suit, we have became a nation of nudists.
myiq2xu
This isn’t a case of the Emperor having no clothes, this is a case of the clothes having no Emperor.
myiq2xu
BTW – Shouldn’t this post be called the “Rove Cell Block?”
That seems much more appropriate.
cleek
“I’m the proud owner of Karl Rove’s father’s solid gold cock ring.”
for reals
28 Percent
Typical overreaction you are so naive do you think that government will not be run this way for political reasons? Clinton bombed Iraq just because of Monica of course he said it was to bomb WMD sites but it is silly to think that it was not for politics to make him look better everybody said so at the time and that showed how cynical and bad he really was. Rove is not doing anything new everybody does it he is just more innocent and did not think he needed to take steps not to get caught. The truly guilty get away with it he just made a mistake. But you overreact next you will be calling policy reviewers like George Deutsch “political officers” heh you commies would know about political officers I guess you will learn now to be careful what you wish for when you want the Soviets to win.
Jake
Heh. The White House put up a great deal of resistance to the Whistleblower Protection Act. Gee. I wonder why that was?
I don’t remember if Bush vetoed it or just added one of his executive deciderator amendments.
Davis X. Machina
Is 28th’s prose style stream of unconsciousness? I propose a bake sale and, we buy the fellow a few commas with the proceeds
scarshapedstar
At the bottom of the pile, presumably, are the thousands of dead — and hundreds of thousands of displaced —
Democratic votersAfrican-Americans from the late city of New Orleans.