It seems to be an Andrew Sullivan morning. Interesting that he would comment on the NYT article vis-a-vis Josh Marshall's ongoing coverage of this story the way he does. With NYT's egg-on-the-face record from the past five years or so, versus the fact that Marshall is one of the most reliable sources on the 'net, it looks like a bad case of horse/cart dysphoria.
I think I linked to this story recently, which is the one that Sullivan references. It's a pretty good summation of the situation, or at least this aspect of it.
And I have to say once again, if you want to know what a wingnut is up to, listen to what he's saying while he's pointing as someone else. I think that goes a long way toward explaining the administration's focus on voting fraud.
Update
See this piece by Digby to add another thread to the weave.
The concept of political corruption has become adorably quaint at Versailles on the Potomac, but to the rest of us out here in the hinterlands, the idea that current members of a legal organization formed for the express purpose of partisan electioneering are working in the Justice Department seems just a little bit troubling. These guys have the full force of the federal government at their disposal, after all. Federal agencies like the Justice Department taking a more "permissive" stance toward partisan political activism and using the taxpayers money to do it seems like a bad idea if you care about maintaining people's faith in the justice system.
And see this post by Jack Balkin for some backstory.
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