We are so screwed, Part whatever it is now

The Washington Post for Sunday has an article on how

the accolades for [Attorney General Alberto "Call Me Al"] Gonzales are flowing in.

Lawmakers, including some Democrats who voted against his appointment, are praising his openness and mild-mannered demeanor. U.S. attorneys and career Justice Department employees say they welcome his open-door management style. And outside critics say they are merely grateful that Gonzales has agreed to hear them out.

Well, isn't that just precious. Of course, his actual positions "are not much different" from those of his predecessor, John Burntfarm, but hey, so what? He's "mild-mannered." He's rejected any changes to the Traitor Act beyond minor technical ones, but darn it all, he's got an "open management style." And gosh gee whillikers, he'll actually have a meeting with us before he ignores what we say and continues to use the mystique of terrorism to press for increased government powers to poke, prod, and pry into private lives without even the patina of judicial oversight. What more could anyone possibly ask?

Well, you could ask about the propriety of "the chief law enforcement officer of the country" surrounding himself with "an influential clique of conservative lawyers" and injecting himself on the side of the GOP in the filibuster argument. And you could inquire into the impartiality of an Attorney General who says he's going to focus more on "gang violence and human trafficking" but whose new task force is aimed instead at prosecuting the favorite target of the religious right: obscenity.

But I dunno, that would be, well, kinda rude, sorta, wouldn't it? And he's so, you know, mild-mannered 'n' stuff. We couldn't do that!

I mean, after all, what do actual policies matter?

We are, I say again we are, so screwed.