Another Post letter
I couldn't resist making this comment on a Washington Post article about the US attorney firing revelations:
As always, the grammar is stilted because the Post's discussion forums can't cope with complicated characters like apostrophes and commas.
It could not be more obvious that Gonzales and Bush consider the real mistake to be allowing Congress and the media to find out about this.
They knew what they were doing, and they are proud of it. They just regret that they got caught.
But there is still a good chance that they can get away with it. The always-compliant media has been allowing them to spin their intentionally meaningless statements as apologies. And everyone seems to be ignoring the most shocking aspect of the scandal: proof of a pre-planned, direct assault on the legislative branch by the executive branch.
The emails show that the replacements were planned more than a YEAR before a right-wing staffer for Senator Spector secretly placed the enabling passage into a bill that not one Senator bothered to read! They made their plans in advance, and subverted the legislative process when the time suited them. Why has this issue been ignored by the mainstream media?
As always, the grammar is stilted because the Post's discussion forums can't cope with complicated characters like apostrophes and commas.
