Rahm Emanuel : Politicizing Government Service

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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/26/politicizing_government_service.php
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President Bush came to the White House with an entirely different understanding.

Not since the days of Watergate, when our judicial system and intelligence community were deployed by the White House in the service of partisan politics, have we seen such abuses. And in many ways, what we have seen from this administration is far more extensive than that scandal.

Partisan politics has infiltrated every level of our federal government—from scientific reports on global warming to emergency management services to the prosecutorial power of the federal government itself. Even the Iraq War—from our entry to the reconstruction—has been thoroughly politicized and manipulated.

Recently, even those who had become somewhat inured to the intense partisanship of this Administration were shocked by the political manipulation of our U.S. Attorneys. And we have just begun to feel the impact of this scandal. Just as Hurricane Katrina exposed the issue of incompetence, the U.S. Attorney scandal has placed a spotlight on the Administration's pattern of always placing the Republican Party's interests before the public interest. Now, the U.S. Attorney scandal will be to public corruption what Hurricane Katrina was to incompetence in the Bush Administration.