Who is Monica Goodling?
(h/t to The Carpetbagger Report)
She was a senior counselor for the Attorney General, and served as a liaision between the White House and the DOJ. She's only 33 years old, with a law degree from Regent University, the evangelical school founded by Pat Robertson. The Post article about her is disturbing, although it only reinforces the already-understood fact that this administration has stacked every government office it could with die-hard political supporters, who tended to come out of the evangelical christian community:
Part of a generation of young religious conservatives who swept into the federal government after the election of President Bush in 2000, Goodling displayed unblinking devotion to the administration and expected others to do the same.
One of the features of this generation, I think, is a kind of naive arrogance. They had faith in Bush, both in the rightness of his mission and in his infallibility as a leader:
To her supporters, Goodling's only mistake -- if she made one at all -- was not anticipating the political peril before the 2006 midterm elections.
"The young conservatives who came off the campaign and were new to town with this administration, they've never seen lean times," said a veteran Republican political appointee who declined to be quoted by name saying anything critical of Goodling. "They had no appreciation for what would happen after the Democrats took control and how tough it would be."
