The second “pill” is the reference to her reading beyond the purview of that paper’s limited framework, another reminder that for all intents and purposes she has long since abandoned it as her primary source of information:
I read in the comments section responding to a house editorial that since Henry Waxman is a politician behaving politically, that somehow neutralizes the administration’s inappropriate injection of politics into officially non-partisan agencies. Though this letter will fail to nip such convoluted reasoning in the bud, I hereby dispute this notion with the following aphorism: you can’t pretend the original actor is being acted upon indiscriminately by the reactor. That’s a gangly way of saying that those who commit an original offense are hardly in the position to cry fowl when someone attempts to hold them accountable. Or, if you prefer, that you can’t be the victim when you victimized the alleged perpetrator who now prosecutes you for your initial crime.
As observed in an astute editorial I read elsewhere, the most astonishing aspect of these emerging scandals is that they grew egregious enough to rise to prominence after the Republicans’ definitive electoral defeat. Such brazen disregard for Congress and the entire nation recalls the administration’s erstwhile immunity to non-existent blowback from Congress when the two branches were copasetic. By virtue of the opposing party achieving majority status and thus subpoena power, now that there are - and should be – consequences, apparently the hotshots who ran the show at Justice and General Services simply couldn’t or wouldn’t make adjustments accordingly. Which is how we became aware of the breadth and depth of undermining the government’s integrity assuredly to remain not fully uncovered when time runs out as Bush’s term ends.
Yet loyal followers of the President and all his men and women insist that because investigating these political breaches of trust is itself a political process, it shouldn’t be conducted. That’s as desperate as it is ludicrous.