"Bush model: politics over expertise and/or law." (TPM)

(December 10, 2005 -- 06:09 PM EST // link)
A week ago it was reported that Justice Department lawyers had concluded at the time that the DeLay redistricting plan of 2003 violated the Voting Right Act, but that senior DOJ officials overruled that finding and okayed DeLay's plan anyway.

Justice Department officials have now instituted a policy to assure this never happens again. They have, as reported in today's Post, "barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases, marking a significant change in the procedures meant to insulate such decisions from politics."

It's the Bush model: politics over expertise and/or law. Whether it's at the Pentagon, the CIA, Justice or the EPA hardly matters.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901894.html

yup, he was hired for his expertise.

Are there any halfway competent people in the whole of the Administration... especially since Powell left?

you're doing a heck of a job
"""" Tom Ridge"""""""""
"""""""John Ashcroft"""""""
the list goes on.