Prometheus 6

This is exactly the kind of administration the impeachment provisions were written for.

Federal Hustings Administration

The politicizing of federal workplaces for partisan gain is a crime, but don’t tell that to the Bush administration appointees busy on their rounds as in-house promoters of Republican candidates.

“Our hard work is noticed,” e-mailed a pleased official of the nation’s anti-drug abuse agency after helping the White House bolster vulnerable G.O.P. members of Congress with district visits and federal grants from anti-drug officials in the months before the 2006 elections. The e-mailer apologized that leaders from the supposedly politics-free agency were dispatched to “god awful places” on the taxpayers’ tab, but took comfort in the word that, yes, Karl Rove, President Bush’s political guru, was pleased with the agency’s campaign to help more than a dozen shaky candidates.