Eric Alterman: When you consider the respective achievements of the folks who peopled the upper echelons of the Bush administration, I think you'll agree that after their incompetence, ideological obsession, and general malevolence, their most impressive characteristic was, and remains, their audacity. In a society with any kind of memory whatsoever -- much less one whose public servants enjoyed a modicum of self-respect -- these folks would slink off into the sunset and lay low for a decade or two before taking up new careers doing something useful. Instead they've become pundits.
