Could Any Bush Scandal Surprise You Now?

I know I wasn't really surprised at the revelation that they tried to ruin the DOJ by giving jobs to barely literate people who received law degrees that came with anti-abortion bubble gum over dedicated Harvard grads.

As so often with the Bush Administration, its leaders pushed too hard, too quickly, and too clumsily to have their way, and they ended up breaking the law in the process. As before, the Administration might have been far more successful in entrenching its values and vision in the federal bureaucracy had it acted within the boundaries of the law.
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No matter who wins the election, there will probably be a strong push in the next Administration to return hiring in the Justice Department (and the civil service generally) to strongly non-partisan merit based policies. And if Obama wins, we may also see a mass exodus of movement conservatives from the Justice Department and other civil service positions when many of them discover that they will not be able to shape law in the way they want. As a result, the Bush Administration's efforts at partisan entrenchment in the Justice Department may not succeed. Moreover, by overplaying its hand, the Bush Administration has sensitized Congress and the public to the issue. People will be watching if the next administration tries something similar.