I hope someone’s actually collecting all the Bush administration scandals and crimes, because it would be awesome to publish a report of it and send it out to the media a week before the election as a reminder of what we can expect 4 more years of if we elect McCain. Now some more has been added to the rap sheet, including felony-level kickback consumption. This time, it’s the Department of the Interior, and as you can imagine, it’s a flood of bribes and hiring cronies briefly only to streamline them into expensive (for the taxpayer) “consulting” gigs doing the same half-assed work they were doing on the federal employee payroll.
But, my friends, the people who write these reports have learned that people are tired of reading about the same old Abramoff-level corruption. Sure, Interior officials were accepting gifts well beyond the federal limits from oil and gas lobbyists. And sure, the guilty parties are getting off because their bodies in the Justice Department refuse to prosecute. And sure, there’s the sense that our entire system of government is now being run by graft. But people are scandal-fatigued by these money and corruption charges. Luckily, this report has the sort of scandal in it that people never get tired of hearing about, Sex & Drugs.
Really, it’s full of win: