This is old news of course, and these a-holes make the Nixon administration look like a dream team. I saw this reminder the other day:
" When history looks back at the Bush presidency, one of the more celebrated quotes that will help capture much of what went wrong will be John DiIulio's. It was DiIulio, the first director of the president's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, who told Ron Suskind,
"What you've got is everything -- and I mean everything -- being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis." "
(
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/015943.php)
BTW you guys like sperry who sometimes think you are "old" - ha, I can remember Watergate and Nixon's resignation while I lived about 15 miles from the Watergate Hotel.