True face of Bush Administration revealed?

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Yesterday, whilst searching for a quotation to add as a comment to my diary on Daily Kos, I saw an item from the New York Times picked up via Huffington Post.

I read it with such deep disgust that I felt it needed the widest possible circulation. It has been something of a frustration that I have had to wait until today to post it because it needs to be out there and known to every Kossack, to every political commentator and, above all, to every representative in Congress.

The article quoted a comment by a senior administration official that was outrageous. So appalling was it, and so revealing about the mindset behind the White House political tactics, that I cannot imagine in any other democracy that the person who made this statement would not immediately be told to resign from his non-elected high office of influence....(continues at link above)