The back story

The ways Bush is using our government for his own partisan and ideological purposes is amazing. It may take years for the full extent of it to become known. Here's an example:

Today, Regent University, founded by the televangelist Pat Robertson to provide
"Christian leadership to change the world," boasts that it has 150 graduates
working in the Bush administration.

Unfortunately for the image of the school, where Mr. Robertson is chancellor and
president, the most famous of those graduates is Monica Goodling, a product of
the university’s law school. She’s the former top aide to Alberto Gonzales who
appears central to the scandal of the fired U.S. attorneys and has declared that
she will take the Fifth rather than testify to Congress on the matter.

The infiltration of the federal government by large numbers of people seeking to
impose a religious agenda — which is very different from simply being people of
faith — is one of the most important stories of the last six years. It’s also a
story that tends to go under reported, perhaps because journalists are afraid of
sounding like conspiracy theorists.

But this conspiracy is no theory.