There are a lot of brave, hard-working cops in this country, and there are a handfull of tin-horn bullies without enough judgment to run a lemonaide stand. Every private citizen that runs into a Trooper Wooten in their life and isn’t in a position to do anything about his abuse of his badge hopes that jerk will someday tick off the wrong person, someone who is in a position to do something about it.

Seems that happened in this case, but the whole things makes me nervous about the state of our law enforcement agencies (as well as every other regulatory government body). Wooten clearly shouldn’t have a badge, but even when he threatens a family member of the Governor of the state he works for, he can’t be fired and it makes more trouble for the 80% approval-rating Governor than is does for the tin-horn cop. Amazing.

And in addition, in the middle of all this, Monegan reportedly made a little threat of his own to Governer Palin, telling her “someone” had told him she’d been seen driving with her son Trig no in a prober child safety seat. Palin didn’t back down and good for her.

So, in my mind, this report confirms even more strongly that we need a Sarah Palin in charge. Someone has to dismantle the corrupt networks of public employee unions, regulators, lobbyists, and pols, not to meniton rent-seeking businesses, that are undermining our entire society. Whoever does that will come under vicious attack with the aparatus using every brickbat (like this commission and it’s phony-baloney notions of ethics) to stop it.

Palin is willing to stand up to that. We need her more than ever.