Two bits of non-news.  Which is less surprising?

#1 from WaPost: “Immigration judges often picked based on GOP ties“:

The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

At least one-third of the immigration judges appointed by the Justice Department since 2004 have had Republican connections or have been administration insiders, and half lacked experience in immigration law, Justice Department, immigration court and other records show.

Two newly appointed immigration judges were failed candidates for the U.S. Tax Court nominated by President Bush; one fudged his taxes and the other was deemed unqualified to be a tax judge by the nation’s largest association of lawyers. Both were Republican loyalists.

Justice officials also gave immigration judgeships to a New Jersey election law specialist who represented GOP candidates, a former treasurer of the Louisiana Republican Party, a White House domestic policy adviser and a conservative crusader against pornography.

#2 from AP/Yahoo: “Lieberman: U.S. should weigh Iran attack”

Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Sunday the United States should consider a military strike against Iran because of Tehran’s involvement in Iraq.

“I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,” Lieberman said. “And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers.”

Cronyism vs irrational belligerence.  Yay!

I must add though, in Lieberman’s case he’s actually being more dumb than Bush is being corrupt for once.  At least ALL of the appointments aren’t cronies (yet), whereas if we took Joe & the 7th Beach Boy’s advice, Iran would just say “fuck it, they think we’re behind it all anyway” & invade Iraq.