'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

"Iraqification"-- of Washington DC?

I'm just in the middle of writing a CSM column about the dilemmas of "Iraqification" of the administration in Iraq. And suddenly I thought well heck, what if what's really happening in the world should actually be called the "Iraqification" of the administration in Washington DC?

Meaning, that we're getting increasingly closed-door, Orwellian, crony-istic, anti-democratic decisionmaking right here in the US, never mind what's happening in Iraq.

But then I though, nah-- that is really not fair to the Iraqis, to paint them all with a Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld brush... "Saddamization" of Washington DC, perhaps? Nah, that's too extreme. Something in between, though...