We learned last week that the president was staffing up with a new team of eight lawyers in order to help defend the Bush gang from the various charges they’re facing from the various scandals they’ve created. The new additions bring the White House counsel’s office up to 22 lawyers, which is about what Clinton had during impeachment.<\/p>\n
Peter Baker reported<\/a> over the weekend, “All eight received degrees from Ivy League schools or from West Point.” It prompted Tom Schaller to note<\/a>:<\/p>\n So, when it comes to policy-making over at the so-called Justice Department, a Regent University law degree, like the one held by Monica “I may have crossed the line” Goodling and a battalion of other fundies, suffices. But when it comes to protecting the president’s backside, apparently a divine legal degree is no substitute for an East Coast elite Ivy School pedigree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s true, but Tom might be understating the case a bit. Bush doesn’t just tap Regent grads to handle Justice Department policy; in the big picture, he’s hired Regent grads to represent the electorate. The Justice Department includes the lawyers for the nation. They’re protecting integrity of our laws and our system of justice, and acting in our interests.<\/p>\n In other words, when it comes to protecting us<\/i>, Bush wants lawyers educated by TV preacher Pat Robertson. When it comes to protecting himself<\/i>, Bush wants only the best.<\/p>\n Good to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We learned last week that the president was staffing up with a new team of eight lawyers in order to help defend the Bush gang from the various charges they’re facing from the various scandals they’ve created. The new additions bring the White House counsel’s office up to 22 lawyers, which is about what Clinton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}