The "Embodiment of Conservative Values" was a shoplifter.

Claude Allen was Bush's Domestic Policy Assistant. He was paid $161,000.00 per year with your tax money, the highest salary in the white-house, the same as Karl Rove's. He was ripping off retail-stores.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/10/claude-allen/
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From the police report:

The Target Loss Prevention Manger contacted Montgomery County Police and through the police investigation it was learned that Allen had been receiving refunds in an amount exceeding $5,000 during last year. Some of the fraudulent returns were made at Target stores and some at Hecht’s stores. He would buy items, take them out to his car, and return to the store with the receipt. He would select the same items he had just purchased, and then return them for a refund. Allen is known to have conducted approximately 25 of these types of refunds, having the money credited to his credit cards.
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[Allen] was the top domestic policy adviser and a former Bush Federal Circuit Court nominee. The Washington Post labeled him the embodiment of “conservative values.”
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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/10/claude-allen/

When the Media is Monopolized and elections are stolen, you get appointees like this. There are two hundred ninety five million people in the United States. 295,734,134. Some of them have honor and integrity and intelligence. This is the best we can do?