Sara Taylor, White House Political Director from 2005-2007, serves as a prime example of the cancer that has taken hold within the Bush administration. I wrote previously about President Bush’s placing political loyalty over his loyalty to his constitutional oath. That attitude seems to have permeated the senior White House staff also. Ms. Taylor, in an astonishing display of political reasoning, demonstrated that she doesn’t understand what taking an oath to the Constitution means. From the Boston Herald:

Loyal to Bush even outside the White House, Taylor at first refused to answer questions that might violate Bush’s claim of executive privilege and at one point reminded the committee that as a commissioned officer, “I took an oath and I take that oath to the president very seriously.

Senator Patrick Leahy had a clear, direct, and correct response to her assertion.

This is the actual oath taken by all officers of the executive branch.

I (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

The stunning part of this is not so much her bumbling response but that this was Bush’s political director until just a couple weeks ago. She was in charge of the political machinery at the White House and yet seems to be unable to grasp allegiance to country over politics. This has been displayed by the Bush administration before but I’ve always believed that they knew what they were doing. Sara Taylor’s answers were like those of Republican political zombie that Karl Rove grew in some remote corner of Area 51. Now I understand why President Bush’s staff remain so loyal. The real question is- who is the Zombie Master?