Cee U Next Tuesday of the week....

This week's C-U-N Tuesday is former Justice Department employee Monica Goodling. Previously the liaison to the White House at the Attorney General's office, Goodling was involved in the vetting of U.S. Attorneys, a politically appointed job, as well as non-political "career" positions such as prosecutors in the civil rights, environmental, and political corruption areas. One year ago, Goodling was in front of the House Judiciary Committee, with limited immunity granted and confronted with the firing of assistant US attorneys based on cronyism and "loyalty" to the Bush Doctrine as it was. She admitted then to "crossing the line" in hiring employees at the Justice Department, using the same criteria for judging political jobs from the historically non-partisan career positions, though refusing that she did anything wrong willfully.

Well in the year following, the Inspector General's office expanded the investigation into Goodling's actions to include the day-to-day DOJ personnel. It revealed that she had not only put a litmus test on prospective jobseekers with questions like "What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?" (WTF? Is she some sort of cracked-out dominatrix pawning off her slightly-more-valuable pigboys to the "big boss"?), but also blacklisted existing judges based on hearsay, most notably in the case of Leslie Hagan, who was slandered with accusations of an illicit (but totally false) lesbian relationship with her boss, Margaret Chiara, who also was one of the nine US attorneys fired by the Gonzales' regime.

There is no greater threat to American democracy that a violation of its people's trust in the justice system, and Goodling fucked it with sandpaper. Hard. This would be among the highest of crimes no matter if the person involved were Democratic or Republican. Goodling, the product of Pat Robertson's diploma mill, deserves nothing more than to spend a few years in prison to straighten her out.

Runner up is Washington Post pretend-journalist Carrie Johnson, who in her article on the investigation wrote,

For nearly two years, a young political aide sought to cultivate a "farm system" for Republicans at the Justice Department, hiring scores of prosecutors and immigration judges who espoused conservative priorities and Christian lifestyle choices.

Sorry, dickweed, but being gay is not a "lifestyle choice" any more than your appearance of an Airedale with "the mange" is a "fashion choice". You're just born with it.