One reason we're here is that everybody mostly pretended not to notice the extreme corruption of the Bush administration - they were good, heroic, chaps, just trying to keep us safe - and then of course we had to look forward, not backward.
The US Attorney Scandal under Bush was Watergate level shit, the complete corruption of the Justice Department, as we are seeing once again. Its revelation made most of the press corps very uncomfortable, for reasons they make obvious regularly.
