In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the [Interior] department’s inspector general...portray[s] a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration’s watch.
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I remember, years and years ago, Jack Anderson writing that, whenever he called a Republican or conservative lawmaker/functionary/department head to ask him about some questionable behavior, he knew that he wouldn't get an outright denial; instead, they would claim that the rules didn't really apply to that particular person or situation; the rules were for those people, the ones who don't really have the best interests of the country at heart; we're only doing what needs to be done, have only the best and purest of motives, and all them pesky rules and regulations are standing in the way of doing what's best for the country.
Self-righteousness is odious, no matter who is guilty of it. And in the present administration, for the last eight years, we have reached the apotheosis of the "Don't bother me with facts, my mind's made up" mindset that started with the "Reagan Revolution."
I have never hated anyone as much as I hated Reagan. It scares me to this day how much. That smug, lying, delusional corporate shill symbolized for me the worst aspects of conservatism and the Republican Party (more so, even, than Richard Nixon). "Don't worry your pretty little heads, we know what's best for you. Just do as we do, think as we think, and the world will be a perfect place."
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