The Bush administration is finally starting to act with the spirit of the petulant, truculent C-minus student that this president embodies. How else do you explain the administration’s revelation to Congress that it “accidentally” lost countless e-mails that could shed light on the dismissal of several federal prosecutors? The administration isn’t even trying anymore to disguise its bad behavior. It knows as well as Congress that those e-mails were deliberately deleted, but Bush’s operatives must be feeling too embattled to come up with a more plausible excuse.
Congress will almost certainly issue subpoenas for those e-mails and uncover at least some of them. I’m dying to read Rove’s clumsy and repeated invitations to Harriet Meiers to come on over for a little Merlot and some Idol-watching.
