Bush vs Republicans in the Bureaucracy

This isn't my usual posting, but I'm in a paper grading frenzy right now. Here's Arianna Huffington on the prosecutor purge.

Not that we should be surprised by any of this. It's just one more vile example of how Bush treats every part of the executive branch: instead of protecting the environment, the E.P.A. is used to weaken it; the V.A. screws veterans; the State Department campaigns against diplomacy; the F.D.A. undermines food safety. And now the injustice at Justice. The Bushies have a long history of playing fast and loose with the law -- evading it, stretching it, getting around it, weakening it, ignoring it, nullifying it.

In most of these cases, the most determined opposition to the Bush agenda has come from Republicans in the federal bureaucracy.