Karen Hughes

LAT reporter Paul Richter this morning reports that Karen Hughes is resigning her position at the State Department and returning to her home state of Texas. In reporting that, however, most of Richter's words are about Hughes' failures, as Richter perceives them, and America's image overseas, which Richter describes as bad and getting worse. Reading Richter's piece, it's hard not to conclude that he took the Hughes resignation as an opportunity to take a few swipes at the Bush administration, something that seems compulsive at the LAT.