Chug on, oh Cronyboat of State—Chimpy's dumped a new boatload of human waste on deck

Chutzpah, nerve, gall, effrontery—we're running out of vocabulary for the behavior of the rampaging psychopathic lowlife scum who currently run the country. Even as the tattered veneer of human respectability is being peeled off the pestilential carcases of the Bush crew, there's Chimpy stuffing his Groaning Cronyboat of State with more human waste.

Here's the Washington Post account of Chimpy's recess appointments, people he couldn't get through even this lapdog Senate. Rachel Maddow was great this morning on her Air America Radio program, on this as well as other subjects. About the recess appointments she said that of the 17, she already knows enough about nine to pronounce them disasters.

Pictured here is Julie Myers, whose entire qualifications to be assistant secretary of Homeland Security in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau appear to be that she's (a) a niece of former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Richard B. Myers and (b) married to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's chief of staff.

I was hoping that Rachel would have her rant up on the Air America site, but she's merely posted the official White House "Personnel Announcement" with the list of names and positions. It's one horror story after another, some of them already well-publicized. The process seems to be to scour the planet for the person least qualified for the job and most heavily laden with crony ties, conflicts of interest and all those other good things—and then see if they can't find somebody even less suitable.