The Reality-Based Community?
Salon does a story on the "34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency -- every one of them worse than Whitewater."
I didn't feel like watching one of their commercials, so I only read the first scandal listed:
From 2001 to 2003, Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee illicitly accessed nearly 5,000 computer files containing confidential Democratic strategy memos about President Bush's judicial nominees. The GOP used the memos to shape their own plans and leaked some to the media.
First of all, it should be obvious that the "scandal", to the extent it exists, originated with "Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee". So how does it become linked to the Bush Administration? A very comparable scandal was the
famous incident when a couple of Democrats "just happened" to intercept a cell phone call from Newt Gingrich and the tape was leaked by a Democratic member of Congress; to my knowledge nobody tried to claim this was a scandal of the Clinton Administration.
Second, the old rule of thumb is that you lead with your strongest argument, your strongest case. If this is the top scandal that Salon lists, the rest have to be pretty weak beer indeed.
