Guardian: President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce his energy team this week, and its members promise (unsurprisingly) to be major improvements over George Bush’s appointees. A striking fact about the past eight years of Republican rule is how difficult it has become to find an executive agency that Bush shaped appropriately to the times. It’s not that every single agency became a conduit for political corruption (like the department of justice) or a money-laundering front for …