Monica Goodling

A woman whose name is coming up more and more as the onion-like layers of the Attorney General scandal are peeled back is Monica Goodling. She's a Bush appointee who has taken the expulsion of non-Republicans and non-Creationists from the government to pogrom-like levels.

Goodling would ask potential candidates for supposedly non-partisan positions in the Justice Department about their ties to the Democratic party, and in two cases, blocked those she deemed "untrustworthy" from being hired into those positions. She asked things of others like, "Have you ever cheated on your wife?" And she's a graduate of Regency University, one of the "schools" identified as being exclusionary of all thought not based in religion, and for whom the government may be providing favoritism in gaining employment, advancement and even security clearances.

Goodling's shenanigans led to her finally throwing in the towel and resigning, and then refusing to testify in the AG investigation, citing her right not to incriminate herself. I love when people invoke that right - it makes investigators lose sleep in their zeal to uncover what might be incriminating. And in her case, it's being a member of a movement that is trying to inject religion into our governement, despite the best-laid plans of the Founding Fathers.

How this woman is perceived by the blogging and YouTube crowds is predictable: they are incensed. Read on:

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