Surprise

There's not much thrill left to be had from bush admin scandals. Every new scandal coming out is something that has been mostly common knowledge for years. Today the big news was a report about the DOJ basing hiring on ideological and political criteria. Nothing new here, when Monica Goodling testified during the Alberto Gonzalez hearings she admitted as much. All this report does is shed light and offer some hard data as to the extent of it. What new scandals could there be that aren't already commonly accepted? Waste and fraud in military contracts? circumventing domestic eavesdropping laws? hiring glaring incompetents based on personal loyalty? understaffing and underfunding most of the federal domestic agencies? toerture-er-enhanced interrogation? lying and exxagerating about Iraq intelligence? Will we find out that he had a strong personal desire to take Saddam out and pushed us into war? You mean to tell me he is holding hundreds of people for years indefinitely?

It all reminds me of that sitcom that had two coworkers who hid their romance from the others, and then give an anti-climactic confession since everyone knew already. You know the one about that one family? It had the fat and dumb guy with a hot wife? That one where they would learn a valuable life lesson at the end of the show?