Richard Cohen in the Washington Post:

It took no less a sage than President Bush to put the firing of four high-level CBS News employees in perspective: “CBS said they would act. They did. And I hope their actions are such that this doesn’t happen again.” This from the man who fired not a single person in his entire administration for getting nearly everything wrong about Iraq and taking the nation to war for reasons that did not exist or were downright specious. Lucky for Bush he’s only the president of the United States and not the head of CBS.

This is what I call Bush’s Doctrine of Infallibility. The Bush Administration escapes the obligation of accountability because they don’t make mistakes.

Much of the controversial work that Alberto Gonzales did in the Bush White House was constructing legal arguments that this president’s actions are beyond the reach of any law. Critics have complained that the Bush Administration wants to roll back the New Deal. Actually, they want to roll back the Magna Carta!