Nobody does compromise quite like the Bush administration.
If you’re a regular reader of TPM, you’re familiar with Hans von Spakovsky and in particular, Spakovsky’s remarkable track record at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. It is because of that record — one of ignoring, marginalizing, and intimidating career lawyers in order to institute restrictive voting laws all over the country, a pattern amounting to “institutional sabotage” as one former career attorney there put it — that Senate Democrats (Barack Obama and Russ Feingold in particular) opposed his nomination to the Federal Election Commission.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=176983