Are there no good men left in our government?
Don't these people know partisan politics is what destroyed Athens, not the famine, and not even the disastrous campaign against Sicily?
Politicians have an excuse. It's their job to be partisan, almost, to provide opposing views in the marketplace of ideas so that the people may choose. In fact, the most commonly heard complaint about our two parties is not that they are too partisan—it's that they are too much like each other.
Bureaucrats, agents, attorney generals, lawyers, and other professionals in our government and the private sector have no such excuse. There is some core function to their position which is inherently apolitical. There is some part of their job that can be done equally well by a far-left Democrat as well as a far-right Republican, as long as the man is competent (e.g. Thomas M. Daniel, who investigated ethics complaints against former Gov. Palin competently and objectively even though it was later revealed that he was a Democrat who contributed heavily to Mr. Obama's campaign).
It is corruption of the highest degree when someone violates the trust implicit in their position to advance their partisan agenda. Facts have no liberal or conservative bias—though they may support one or the other side. Those who distort facts knowingly and willingly and make the numbers lie have no place either in the government or the private sector—after all, who would knowingly hire a liar, except for criminal purposes (and even that I am not sure)?
But these liars have been in our government so long. The fact that these liars who deliberately failed at their job to fulfill a political purpose have been in place of power worries me deeply because this is the only way I can make any sense of that: there are no good men left in our government. There are no men honest enough to speak out against this corruption. There are no men competent enough to replace these liars. There is no one who sees an objective view of reality free from his biases and agendas.
If that's true, what's going to become of this country?