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A transplanted Midwesterner puts down roots in Alabama and helps show how "loyal Bushies" have corrupted our justice system.
Perhaps we should not have been surprised that U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey today would reject the idea of prosecuting Justice Department employees who improperly used political litmus tests in hiring decisions:
Mukasey Proves Our Point
The moral rot at the heart of modern conservatism has been on grand display for quite some time now. Most recently, we saw it in the pages of the National Review, the country's preeminent conservative journal:
Solzhenitsyn's Death Reveals Moral Decay
The "thinkers" at the National Review hold Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a hero, an icon. The famed Russian author and dissident, who died last week, is held in high regard by many. But conservatives in the West tend to put him on a particularly high pedestal.
They laud him for standing up to the oppressive regime of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, for providing insights on human evil, for bearing witness to uncomfortable truths.
Perhaps best of all to the right wingers, Ronald Reagan used to quote Solzhenitsyn regularly in the 1970s and '80s.
But how shallow is conservatives' understanding of Solzhenitsyn and what he stood for? It is revealed in an article by National Review editors, who claim that Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and Josh Bolten should stall and "run out the clock" on a Congressional investigation of wrongdoing in the Bush White House.
So while National Review touts Solzhenitsyn as a "moral giant," one who stood for the truth, the magazine's editors suggest that Rove & Co. do their best to obscure the truth.
You get the feeling the NR crowd doesn't even see the irony in their contradictory statements. Perhaps that's the surest sign of all that moral rot has set in.