Attorneygate: Worse, Worser and Worsest

Monica Goodling’s first-rate law school education is on display today in an astonishingly nit-witted but thus far dry-eyed appearance before the House Judiciary Committee regarding her role in the Attorneygate scandal.

Quoting constitutional scholar Martha Stewart, among others, Goodling acknowledged in testimony given under a grant of immunity that she had made a “snap judgment” in weeding out job candidates based on their partisan bona fides.

A “snap judgment” that the senior counsel and White House liaison made numerous times.

In a typical exchange, Goodling said “I don’t believe that I intended to commit a crime.” When pressed to explain that, she acknowledged that “I know I crossed the line of civil service rules.” She later further muddied the waters by adding, “I believe I crossed the line, but I didn’t mean to.”

Just when you think the duplicity of Bush administration hirelings couldn’t get any worse, along comes a Bible-thumping bottom feeder like Goodling.

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