The Invisible Library

Rick Perlstein in The Village Voice:

You might wonder�were you someone unfamiliar with or in denial about the ways of the Karl Rove Mafia�how George W. Bush could blunder into nominating someone as attorney general so obviously implicated in the most legally questionable and morally indefensible practices of his administration. You might wonder, too, how the administration seemed to be caught unawares by the bottomless pit of scandal in the past of its initial nominee for Homeland Security secretary.

Or you could realize that such nominations were not blunders, but intentional: that they were made not in spite of Alberto Gonzales’s and Bernard Kerik’s unsuitability for high office but precisely because of them. Keeping embarrassing facts on file about confederates is the best way to grip them into loyalty like a vise.

Read the whole thing, please. Then you’ll start to see what we’re in for durring the next four years, and probably for a long time after that.

I was looking over the part of my novel that I posted earlier this week and decided that it needs a lot of work. It’s probably not a good idea to post something that’s a work in progress. One of these days, I’ll learn. So I’m taking it down for now. I’ll still work on it from time to time and throw around some ideas for your consideration but for now, I thnk I’ll sleep better at night if I just keep the actual words to myself, at least for now.