The current Monica problem

I found this article excerpt on Dependable Renegade. It's originally from The New York Times:

WASHINGTON, May 11 — Two years ago, Robin C. Ashton, a seasoned criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, learned from her boss that a promised promotion was no longer hers.

Monica Goodling is accused of partisan influence in Justice Department hirings and firings.“You have a Monica problem,” Ms. Ashton was told, according to several Justice Department officials. Referring to Monica M. Goodling, a 31-year-old, relatively inexperienced lawyer who had only recently arrived in the office, the boss added, “She believes you’re a Democrat and doesn’t feel you can be trusted.”
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Ms. Goodling also moved to block the hiring of prosecutors with résumés that suggested they might be Democrats, even though they were seeking posts that were supposed to be nonpartisan, two department officials said.

And she helped maintain lists of all the United States attorneys that graded their loyalty to the Bush administration, including work on past political campaigns, and noted if they were members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.

By the time Ms. Goodling resigned in April — after her role in the firing of the prosecutors became public and she had been promoted to the role of White House liaison — she and other senior department officials had revamped personnel practices affecting employees from the top of the agency to the bottom.

NOW, do you know where Monica went to law school? Regent University - Pat Robertson's school. Guess they don't have much of an ethics department.

(Read here to find out what Paul Krugman has to say about the school.)

UPDATE: You really need to see what Bill Maher has to say on this subject.




Oh my goodness. Please forgive me one more video. You just have to see how Jon Stewart handled this: