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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

And the College Republicans call themselves 'Patriots'

They don't even know what they are supporting.

Let's get this right.

VP Al Gore spearheaded an historically significant and broad-ranging effort to "modernize" the federal government, attending to the gory details that few politicians would be willing to even give a 15 minute, staff-meeting hearing to. (It's almost a lose-lose to get 'tied up' in the bureaucracy, you see).

"No executive branch reform in the twentieth century - indeed, perhaps in the Constitution's 210 years - has enjoyed such high-level attention over such a broad range of activities for such a long period of time," said Brookings scholar Don Kettl in 1998.

Karl Rove spearheaded an historically significant and broad-ranging effort to make sure that the entire Unitary Executive was ... singing Hail to the Chief:

Under Rove's direction, this highly coordinated effort to leverage the government for political marketing started as soon as Bush took office in 2001 and continued through last year's congressional elections, when it played out in its most quintessential form in the coastal Connecticut district of Rep. Christopher Shays, an endangered Republican incumbent. Seven times, senior administration officials visited Shays's district in the six months before the election -- once for an announcement as minor as a single $23 government weather alert radio presented to an elementary school. On Election Day, Shays was the only Republican House member in New England to survive the Democratic victory. -WaPo, Today (Hat Tip: ThinkProgress)