"Mostly Free of Scandal"

I'll have to agree with Wonkette on this one: David Gergen is mentally retarded.

Gergen also said he expected political fallout from the (Libby) verdict.

"This is an administration that has been mostly free of scandal over the last six years and now they have the taint that they cannot erase," he said. "It has damaged this White House, and I think it's damaged the Republican prospects for 2008 in taking the White House and keeping it."

I'm now going to see if I can close my eyes and think of 25 individuals from this Administration who were either forced to resign, or were investigated, arrested and/or convicted, as a result of scandal.

Scooter "headed to jail" Libby
David "in jail right now" Safavian
Dusty "under indictment for bribery" Foggo
Claude "I stole stuff from Target" Allen
Steven "Abramoff bribery suspect" Griles
Bernard "didn't even get past the nominee stage" Kerik
Francis "Walter Reed is fine" Harvey
Gen. George "see Francis Harvey" Weightman
Thomas "Enron figure, also Secretary of the Army" White
Richard "faking information in a terrorism case" Convertino
Michael "Brownie" Brown
Porter "hookers at the Watergate" Goss
Larry "passing information to Israel" Franklin
Donald "secret trip to Taiwan" Keyser
Armstrong Williams (on the government's payroll, then you're a member of the Administration)
Maggie Gallagher
Thomas I will fire you if you tell anyone the true cost of the Medicare bill" Scully

OK, I got to 17. I think there are a lot more, though.

Mind you, there's a lot that isn't here because nobody was held acocuntable. Like Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, the secret energy task force, the Office for Special Plans, Jeff Gannon, falsifying intelligence in the run-up to war, aluminum tubes, Niger forgeries, "we found the weapons of mass destruction," Ken Mehlman's involvement in New Hampshire phone-jamming, the $8 billion dollars missing in Iraq, Colleen Rowley's story, Sibel Edmonds' story, firing US Attorneys for political reasons, illegal NSA wiretapping, Tom DeLay using the Homeland Security Department to track people, no-bid defense contracts, FEMA trailers rotting in the Arkansas mud, people in New Orleans rotting on their roofs and attics, torture memos, signing statements, forcing edits out of global warming papers, and 10,000 more.

And I didn't even get to the Republican Congress, where 21 members have been investigated in the past 2 years.

"Mostly free of scandal"? Mostly?

David Gergen, by the way, has served four Presidents and is seen by the Washington commentariat as something of an elder statesman. And a very serious person.

Serious enough to be put in a mental asylum.