FORMER BUSH ADMINISTRATION EMPLOYEE SMEARED AS MOTIVATED DEMOCRATIC PARTISAN

The right blogosphere's idiocracy would have you believe, of course, that Team Obama has a vested interest in damaging the presidential campaign of Herman Cain -- oooh, he's the one they're really afraid to face next November! -- so I guess there's no real surprise in the response to this outing of a heretofore anonymous Cain accuser, the result of diligent shoe-leather reporting (or phone hacking or whatever) from The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's iPad-based newspaper-like entity:

Herman Cain claims sexual harassment accusations threatening to derail his presidential campaign are a smear campaign. But friends and family of one accuser say she is a principled and dedicated professional who was only trying to right a wrong no woman should suffer in the workplace.

Karen Kraushaar, a 55-year-old former journalist and seasoned government spokeswoman who served on the front lines of the Elian Gonzalez custody battle, is a competitive equestrian and lover of golden retrievers. She has been married for more than two decades....

Karen Kraushaar currently serves as a communications director at the Inspector General’s Office of the Treasury Department, a position she has held since last year....

In 2003, Kraushaar was a communications specialist for the Tax Advocate Service, an independent arm within the Internal Revenue Service that helps impoverished taxpayers....

An O-bot who used to work for the IRS and defended Clinton policy in the Elian Gonzalez case? Appalling! But even that's too complicated for the wingnut idiosphere, which focuses on the Obama part.

The stupidest person in the blogosphere:

Second Cain Accuser Is a "Principled & Dedicated Professional"... Who Happens to Work in the Obama Administration

The Strata-Sphere:

OK, this really is a pathetic joke. One of the accusers works for the Obama administration....

Drudge:

UNNAMED CAIN ACCUSER WORKS IN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION...

But as Mediaite notes,

Kraushaar's boss, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George, is actually a Bush administration appointee.

And Kraushaar worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the end of the Clinton administration, but she stayed in the job into the Bush years -- a fact that, you will be shocked to learn, was left out of the story in Murdoch's Daily -- and she defended a number of post-9/11 Bush administration policies.

Palm Beach Post, October 12, 2001:

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has a backlog of 300,000 cases of foreigners who have been ordered out of the country but who slipped out of sight before they could be deported.

"If the INS can find the person, we deport them," spokeswoman Karen Kraushaar said on Thursday....

NBC, May 30, 2002:

Across the nation, ... Sept. 11 sparked detentions of scores of Arab and Muslim immigrants on technical violations of visa regulations. These immigrants, many of whom do not speak English and have little family in the country, are left in jail for months on end, some without legal representation or even the knowledge that they can demand it....

"In any ongoing criminal investigation, such as this one, the investigation follows the direction indicated by where the evidence leads us," said Karen Kraushaar, a spokesperson for the INS, in response to why there are many more Arabs and Muslims in custody than any other nationality....

Washington Post, July 9, 2002:

In a highly unusual airlift involving hundreds of U.S. immigration officers, the Justice Department secretly chartered a Portuguese jet to deport 131 Pakistani detainees who had been held for months at INS detention facilities around the country....

"The Pakistani government was extremely cooperative in helping us ensure that these individuals were repatriated with safety, speed and dignity," said Karen Kraushaar, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service....

Oh, and this ought to warm the wingers' cockles -- New York Times, October 15, 2001:

In a broader action that also raised fears that authorities had begun to enforce immigration laws more harshly, 834 Mexican workers in Portland, Ore., most of them janitors, were dismissed in recent days. But the mass dismissals resulted from an audit of 41 companies by the immigration service, begun in July, which determined that the workers lacked valid work permits, said Karen Kraushaar, a national agency spokeswoman.

There's your hard-left Democratic apparatchik, you chowderheads.