I’m watching Sarah Taylor, President Bush’s political adviser from 2005-2007, testify on the U.S. Attorney firings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s a total disaster. Leahy is just schooling her. She is dissheveled, inarticulate, bumbling — lots of “uhs” and “ums,” and at times answers that appear to open the door to more questions unnecessarily.

Unasked, my intern remarks, “I don’t know if she did anything, but she sure looks guilty.” It’s the worst show since Scott McClellan in those old White House press briefings.

I don’t know Taylor, and I have nothing against her, but Keith Olbermann is going to have a field day with this footage. Could her advisory role have anything to do with the political tin ear the White House has shown throughout its second term?