The New Republic’s valuable guide to the Bush hackocracy has a particularly brutal take on Claire Buchan, a former White House “spokesbot” who was made chief of staff of the Department of Commerce, from a reporter who worked with her:

Some of Buchan’s erstwhile colleagues in the White House press corps were left speechless when her new assignment was announced in February. One White House reporter who worked closely with Buchan for five years called her “the most useless in a Bush universe of enforced uselessness. She took empty banality to a new low.”

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