Um ... no John, that's not quite the conclusion I drew.

For posterity's sake, the good folks over at TPM are keeping score:

Our Great List of Scandalized Administration Officials

* Scooter Libby - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff - resigned after being indicted for Obstruction of Justice, Perjury, and Making False Statements in connection with the investigation stemming from the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

* Lester Crawford - Commissioner, FDA - resigned after only two months on the job. Pled guilty to conflict of interest and making false statements.

* Brian Doyle - Deputy Press Secretary, DHS - Resigned in wake of child sex scandal. Pled no contest to 32 criminal counts.

* Claude Allen - Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy- resigned, pled guilty to shoplifting from Target stores.

* David Safavian - former head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget - convicted of lying to ethics officials and Senate investigators about his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

* Larry Franklin - intelligence officer, Defense - resigned, pled guilty to passing secrets to Israel.

* Roger Stillwell - desk officer, Interior Department - pled guilty to failing to report Redskins tickets and free dinners from Jack Abramoff.

... and on and on and tediously on, etc etc ...

Based on which you can, of course, draw only one logical conclusion:

April 28, 2007

The truth is that the Bush administration has been extraordinarily scandal-free. Not a single instance of corruption has been unearthed.

When they refer to us Lefties as the "reality-based community," that's not a joke.

(H/T TPM, naturally.)