Remember the howls from Democrats about politicizing the permanent civil service? They strung up poor Lurita Doan at GAO for allowing a government office to be used for a presentation on polling data and encouraging employees to “help our candidate.” But let’s see what the Obama administration is up to. We have this report:

Not 12 months ago, Democrats on Capitol Hill were screaming for the Justice Department to minimize public exposure to a half-dozen or so authorized high-level officials. Too much politicization, they claimed.

“Change has come to Justice,” says a Justice Department lawyer. “Now the Executive Office of the President is directly soliciting … Justice to provide volunteers to run the White House Easter Egg Roll. You can’t make this stuff up.

Then we have this:

[A]n e-mail and flyer recently circulated to Justice Department employees indicate Attorney General Holder has an interesting definition of what it means to be “less political.” The flyer invites all employees to attend a speech in the main Justice building on Pennsylvania Avenue. In fact, it notes, all “[s]upervisors are encouraged to grant official time to employees to attend this event.”

And what pillar of the legal profession will be lecturing Justice employees to help them “serve justice” in a “less political” way? Why, none other than Donna Brazile, whose own website biography describes her as a “[v]eteran Democratic political strategist” and a Vice Chairman at the Democratic National Committee.” Brazile is marketed by more than one speaker’s bureau at a cost ranging from $10,000 to $20,000. The flyer doesn’t say how many taxpayer dollars are going to pay a Democratic political consultant to speak to career employees at the Justice Department (sounds like a good FOIA request). Good thing the Department is no longer politicized.

Now you have the DNC and Organizing America blasting out invitations to essentially pack the White House’s online town-hall. The online town-hall is supposedly an official government event, not a campaign stunt.

That seems to be the rub: You can’t tell where the government ends and the perpetual campaign begins. The same crowd that rose up in horror when the Bush Justice Department wanted to hire attorneys who agreed with the president’s judicial philosophy is now using every lever of government to keep the campaign going and going.