A STEALTH APPROACH TO THE PURSUIT OF POWER

What is it with Bush cronies and their avowed dreams of becoming commissioners of sports organizations?

First Condi Rice, with her insistence that she would love to be the commissioner of football.

Now, SCOTUS nominee Samuel Alito says that in college, "I think my real ambition at the time was to be commissioner of baseball."

I don't believe either one of them. Elitist Republicans have concluded that since fronting as owner of a baseball club paved the way for George W. Bush to become president of the United States, a similar avowed affinity for sports will make beer-drinking sports fans more inclined to see them as "regular guys" and help them to achieve their real dream: power.