Pat Tillman's Medal and Alberto Gonzales' Fired Prosecutors

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Concerning the imbroglio now engulfing the Bush Administration over the replacement of certain United States Attorneys, New York Times columnist David Brooks argues on March 22 that there's good politics, then there's bad politics. He thinks some of the politics in this controversy is good, some of it bad: "When you look at the prosecutors who were fired by the Bush administration, you see some who were fired for proper political reasons and some who were fired for improper ones."

But he is so thoroughly wrong that he can be rebutted from both the Tammany Hall side of politics and from the Civic League or Good Government (hereinafter "Goo-Goo") side. The concept is very simple, a kind of Gresham's Law of politics and government. When the "bad" politics invades a sphere of government normally regarded as a province of the "good," the bad infects the good, contaminates it, pollutes it, poisons it, kills it.

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