Washblog

Emmett -- you're right, that the issue at the center here is the Republican party has become so corrupt that it will only tolerate ideologues.  This is very dangerous.  

Ousted Federal Prosecutor John McKay Speaks

and today's story:

The Heart of a Growing Scandal.

"The bigger scandal, however, almost surely involves prosecutors still in office," Krugman writes. "The Gonzales Eight were fired because they would not go along with the Bush administration's politicization of justice. But statistical evidence suggests that many other prosecutors decided to protect their jobs or further their careers by doing what the administration wanted them to do: harass Democrats while turning a blind eye to Republican malfeasance."

Excerpts from Krugman's column:
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Donald Shields and John Cragan, two professors of communication, have compiled a database of investigations and/or indictments of candidates and elected officials by U.S. attorneys since the Bush administration came to power. Of the 375 cases they identified, 10 involved independents, 67 involved Republicans and 298 involved Democrats. The main source of this partisan tilt was a huge disparity in investigations of local politicians, in which Democrats were seven times as likely as Republicans to face Justice Department scrutiny.

Arthur
You sure you ain't staking too much on yer theories? Not enough common sense?