"Your work here is done"

With little fan-fare last night Commander Cod-Piece signed the law I spoke of yesterday regarding the US Attorneys (Story here on Rawstory). However, as was reported yesterday Abu squeaked in one last "end run" appointment before the law was signed. Of course this has many lawmakers generally peeved and with any luck those appointments will be nullified or will have to come up before the senate.

The take away message here? AGAG's work was done, the appointment was made, one last loyal bushie installed before the law was signed. As Rawstory pointed out there hasn't been a signing statement accompanying this bill...yet. Does that mean there will be one or has Commander Cod-Piece learned his lesson? I doubt he's learned anything and I bet a signing statement will be slipped in, in the not too distant future. Don't hold me to that because I'm not there, nor am I inside the vast, cavernous area that passes for the brain of our half-wit president.

In more Justice department News, this time coutesy of TPM it's good to see that the Civil Rights division has devoted so much time to going after religious discrimination cases while at the same time continuing to push more "charges" of "voter fraud" down in the Carolinas. Of course the odd thing about at least one of the religious discrimination cases, that of the Salvation Army which receives federal funding, was to ALLOW THEM TO DISCRIMINATE. One has to wonder is the Civil Rights division here to protect our civil rights or dismantle them one at a time? Given the last 6-7 years I'd say...as depressing as it is...it's the latter. I have to give credit though, that Massachusetts case with the "candy cane" being J shaped to represent Jesus and the red stripe being his blood while the white his purity sure does give a new meaning to a plain old crooked peppermint stick. Some real imagination there.

Of course this is all par for the course. It's red meat for the base and looking at the hiring practices within the DOJ and the Civil Rights division in particular one can see just how these cases are coming to the forefront, meanwhile other civil rights cases such as discrimination based on race or civil rights abuses by police officers are being dismissed. Even more telling is that with these hirings the qualifications to work at the DOJ must have dropped dramatically. Where once you had top tier law school graduates who worked in prestigious firms you now have graduates of Regent University and other Religious, 4th tier law schools.

I ask you this, if you needed a defense attorney and had the choice between someone with a degree from Harvard and a resume of exceptional standing or a recent graduate of a 4th tier school like regent U who hasn't argued a single case and has no background in the area in which you need defending who would you pick? For that matter say you ran a law firm and the same two candidates came looking for a position in your firm who would you hire?

You would, if you were honest, hire the most qualified. You wouldn't hire the least, the one who's unproven. However that is just what our DOJ has been doing. Meanwhile the AGAG "slow bleed strategy" of replacing long-time carreer attorneys with people who have little to no experience continues. If this was the private sector and it was a business it would be in the toilet by those standards.