Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Resignations for everyone!

Spin the wheel, it's an scandal a week these days. This week's edition is clearly the firings of those eight US Attorneys. For people who work "at the pleasure of the president" they sure have caused a lot of displeasure for the president.

The Dems are good at one thing--sensing political chum in the water--and their Dem-voting media friends love nothing better than helping the cause. CNN has been updating their link all day with every single utterance from Chuck the Schmuck:
"Just when we thought our faith could not be shaken any further, it has been," Schumer said earlier. "At the very beginning, it was clear that something didn't smell right. But I had no idea how high it went."
This was in response to the rather hard-to-believe apology from Gonzales in which he blamed his second-in-command. Earlier the target had been Rove, even though he was against Miers' suggestion to can all 93. But really, who cares?

Despite the flickered hope from some quarters this hardly sounds like anything more than perceptive stupidity, defined as a failure to understand how the DC game is played. The attorneys were political appointees and Rove should know that you don't just fire such people without backlash these days. I'm no big fan of AJ Gonzales but if such a kerfuffle costs him his job then the entire administration might as well go ahead and turn in their resignations now and get it over with.

Lost in all the hoopla were the reasons given for the attorneys being terminated--a failure to aggressively prosecute "Democrat voter fraud" after the 2000 and 2004 elections. Let's imagine for a moment if the situation was reversed; the firings would be justified and the headline would be about how "these attorneys failed to investigate Republican voter fraud", an obvious outrage. The mere mention would trigger 60-Minutes go-teams in every state. But the media has completely ignored that aspect.

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