Claude, How Could You?

Eugene was reading the following article aloud to me over the phone Friday.

Apparently Bush aide Claude A. Allen was charged with retail theft from Target. There's even a police report. Looking at the pic in the police report, he looks like he was about to break into tears any minute.

Wow. What a shame. The brother makes (I mean, made) $161,000 a year. He had some tiny bit of clout being in Bush's (sorry) administration being his assistant for domestic policy. Actually domestic policy under Bush has gone to hell in a handbasket as he wastes time getting revenge on Saddam for making a fool out of his daddy. So Allen's pretty much been under the radar. Until tonight. Over Target. (Target got some nice stuff, though.) I guess he needed a raise.

I like how they said in the article that Allen resigned to be closer to his family. Too bad they didn't specify which family.