Mary Francis Berry spoke at the American Constituional Society last night, and it seems she was not won over by John Tanner’s sincere apologies.

Welcome. Today I have to tell you that even though I am black, I am not bitter. (Scattered laughter).
Bitter some of the time, but not here.
And I would tell you that the guy who made the comments sent me in an email last night, in a supposed apology, which is even funnier, but I won’t take up the time.
Sorry, John.  It seems your reputation for disenfranchising …

The other day in the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin provided us all with a one-stop catalog of, um, catalogs of the failures of the Bush presidency, page after page of quotes from politicos and pundits near and far, the vast majority incredulous about just what has been going on for the last eight years. For the time-pressed, he gives us the Reader’s Digest version early on:
He took the nation to a war of choice under false pretenses — and left troops in harm’s way on two fields of battle. He …

One of the hallmarks of the soon-to-be-over Bush administration has been the tendency to appoint people as heads of an agency who actually think that the agency shouldn’t exist, and want to destroy it.  Knowing that, the reports coming out about the Voting Rights division at DOJ shouldn’t be too shocking.  And yet somehow, they are.
Via TPM:
In that incident in August 2004, Voting Section Chief John Tanner sent an e-mail to Schlozman asking Schlozman to bring coffee for him to a meeting both were scheduled to attend. Schlozman replied asking …

Following up on the posts about economic bad news and our current lack of leadership, a great quote from the administration.  Why can’t we have foreclosure relief?  According to an anonymous White House official, “We’re done in two months. The next administration can try to find a way out of that maze.”
Yeah, no worries. It’s not like there’s a crisis or anything. (h/t TPM)