"The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto
R. Gonzales sought to influence the testimony of a departing senior aide during
a March meeting in Gonzales's office, according to correspondence released
today...."
I have real fears about the growing climate of scandal in Washington. The public has limits to what it can handle in terms of scandal, or anything else really. Mind that I am not talking about what the public can accept, but what the public can handle. These terms do not mean the same thing. It is my belief that when as the scandals become too much for the public in general to handle, they just start to accept the scandals as being reality. The end result is that the population begins to distrust the institutions of government and assume that those sent to Washington to speak for them are acting corruptly. This means when news breaks of a new scandal, it isn't something shocking to them, and often is something they don't want to know about.
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