It’s a slow political news day locally (must be the weather, as Tom Tobin might say) so I thought I’d focus on my favorite national issue — no, not Rudy Giuliani’s many marriages and ties to criminal organizations, I mean the US Attorney purge.

Rahm Emmanuel is planning a big speech tomorrow about Republican corruption, using the US Attorney purge as the linchpin of his case:

To make his case, Emanuel will cite the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, the discrediting of a key critic of the justification for war in Iraq, the hiring of young, inexperienced Republicans to oversee Iraq’s reconstruction, secret meetings between Vice President Cheney’s energy task force and oil industry executives, the downplaying of links between greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming, the alleged use of the General Services Administration for partisan purposes and the hiring of an attorney for the International Arabian Horse Association to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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“The U.S. Attorney scandal will be to public corruption what Hurricane Katrina was to incompetence in the Bush Administration,” he plans to say Wednesday.

I like that rhetoric. Before Hurricane Katrina, the media was still portraying Geroge W. Bush as a straight-talking cowboy who ran a tight ship. Afterwards, no one but the 25 percenters could deny his incompetence. Soon it will be same with his corruption.

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