Qualifications

There is nothing worse than a lying politician. Wait, yes there is. A politician who can't even come up with lies to defend himself is worse than a lying politician. This occurred to me today when I was thinking about the Alberto Gonzales case. At least when President Clinton got up in front of the country he was ready to face his detractors. The fact that Attorney General Gonzales can't even come up with lies to even try and save his own position tells us two things: one, that he is not morally fit for his position, as his blatant abuse of power shows, and two, that he is not intellectually fit for his position. I mean, the whole country knows you are morally corrupt. You might as well go with it and deny, deny, deny. It's a simple cost-benefit analysis. However, the sort of nepotism that put Gonzales in his position does not pay attention to qualifications, read "Hey, running horse racing obviously prepares you to handle natural disaster management!" Regardless of the next president elected, Democrat or Republican, extreme or MOR, this needs to be an issue that the American people put on the table; the way the government is going to manage your money is not going to matter if the person doing the actual managing got the job by being a "loyal (blank)ie."