A Different Kind of Affirmative Action

That bunch of lawbreakers at Alberto Gonzales' Justice Dept. are finally being exposed. An internal report says senior aides to the then Attorney General used politics to guide their hiring decisions for a number of important jobs. The interesting part is they often picked less qualified candidates as long as they were seen as card carrying Republicans.

The person at the center of this nonsense, Monica Goodling, was a top aide to Gonzales. She managed a meteoric rise after coming to the Justice Dept. from (and this should tip you off) the Republican National Committee. She herself admitted she may have "crossed the line" in using politics to guide hiring when she testified last year before Congress.  This new report says she was being modest.

It alleges Goodling and other top aides to Gonzales established a pattern of hiring that is described by one official as a farm system, filling temporary jobs with Republicans who could then be moved up. If a candidate was seen as too liberal, they were passed over, no matter how qualified they were. The report doesn't begin to quantify how many political hacks currently work in the department due to the Goodling affirmative action program.

Let's now see how many opponents of affirmative action who speak so loudly when it comes to black people raise there voices to decry this wanton misuse of taxpayer money. 

Bet there won't be many.