Well, No Frakking Shit, What Were They Supposed to be Doing?

SEC employees were surfing porn sites at work. Republicans are, of course, outraged.

First point: The Bush Administration effectively neutered the SEC. Republicans, in general, are opposed to investigating any bank or financial institution for anything, let alone bringing an enforcement action. (Exhibit A: The Republican SEC commissioners opposed taking action against Goldman Sachs.)

Second point: If the Republicans are so determined to look back at what people in the government did during the run-up to the financial collapse, then there is a whole host of other government misdeeds that were committed during the Bush Administration. But we can't look into those, can we, for fear of upsetting the delicate flowers in the party of Hoover who will have the vapours if any investigation is begun which could possibly send some folks from the Bush Administration to prison, such as: John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Joyn Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Doug Feith, John Durham, John Rizzo, Harriet Meiers, and, of course, the lead characters in the Darth and Chimpy Show.