KEN LAYNE’S POST ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL POLICY is an absolute must-read. Excerpt:

But it’s also more damning evidence of Washington’s tin ear. People can and will disagree on all sorts of things, but something like this Trent Lott outrage pretty much puts everybody on the same page, from Atrios to Andrew Sullivan, Krugman to Kaus. Yet Lott is still in power. (He’ll probably be gone by the weekend, but it should’ve happened last week. Or 22 years ago.)

There’s much, much more.