Scandal fatigue
By In more ordinary times this would be a very big scandal indeed, but the Bush administration has made flagrant lawbreaking at the highest levels of government very much a dog bites man story.
One brilliant feature of the winger noise machine is that those operating it realize that an extra added bonus to making up a never-ending series of either wildly exaggerated or completely imaginary “scandals” is that the public gets desensitized to the term. So you didn’t pay your nanny’s social security taxes, and I ordered some people to be tortured to death — I guess we’re all sinners before God!
At least Alberto Gonzales still can’t get a job. (And shame on any law school who pays the man’s well-earned legal bills by handing him a 30K speaking engagement).