[Calpernia]

ping

[pabianice]

Strange... not a word of Clinton firing all 93 US Attorneys in 1993... /sarcasm

[pnh102]

Yet another non-scandal.

[Calpernia]

ping!

[msnimje]

OMG!! Does this mean, gasp...that hirings have their genesis in the White House also??

[Vaquero]

Bush should have fired Patrick Fitzgerald......


hey in a slightly different vein did you hear about the 2 gay irishmen???

Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick......

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518679/posts
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[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Lawmakers requested the documents as part of an investigation into whether the firings were politically motivated. While it is unclear whether the documents will answer Congress's questions, they show that the White House and other administration officials were more closely involved in the dismissals, and at a much earlier date, than they have previously acknowledged.

Of course, no mention of the fact that the Clinton administration actually did fire the whole lot shortly after WJC took office.

[Calpernia]

ping

[P-40]

I guess I would be doing some firing if a U.S. Attorney was not energetically pursuing complaints of voter-fraud. That is supposed to be a serious crime.

[bert]

Back in '93, a perfectly good Republican US Attorney was sacked and replaced with an alcoholic Democrat party hack. His wife finally gave up on him as uncurable. He was good enought for Hillary however. He would lick her feet in an alcoholic stupor and never know he had been had.

[bert]

Back in '93, a perfectly good Republican US Attorney was sacked and replaced with an alcoholic Democrat party hack. His wife finally gave up on him as uncurable. He was good enought for Hillary however. He would lick her feet in an alcoholic stupor and never know he had been had.

[Williams]

This is a nothing story. How does thinking of firing all 92, two years ago, equate to firing 8 now? Hardly the same thing.

[RJS1950]

Unfortunately our gonad-free administration will do nothing to aggressively counter this lie and it will turn into a big "scandal" for the witless and uninformed american public.

Ignoring the problem, taking the "high road" will do nothing but encourage the rats to pour on more lies and unfounded accusations. Playing nice with these slimes gets you the same results as playing nice with terrorists--they will destroy you. Fight back you spineless republicans!

[Don Corleone]

Hindsight is generally 20/20.

[UncleDick]

To the victor go the spoils.

[HawaiianGecko]

The White House suggested two years ago that the Justice Department fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, a proposal that eventually resulted in the dismissals of eight prosecutors last year, according to e-mails and internal documents that the administration will provide to Congress today.

So what's wrong with that?  They are political appointments to begin with.  Are these journalists so stupid that they don't realize this?

[pollyannaish]

Anyone else find it interesting that they are trying to build a new watergate and seem to be starting in the AG office? I honestly think that is where they are going with this. It is all about creating the "appearance" of evil and banking on the public's ignorance of history.

This is not time for infighting. These guys may appear idiotic, but they are treacherous.

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So who gets to go to jail for this non-criminal activity? Clinton Travel office anyone?

[hschliemann]

The UNITARY executive.The president has the right to hire and fire in the executive branch.(Would that we in the private sector had such latitude!)Congress meddling in this violates the separation of powers.

The democratic strategy since Dec.2000 has been to keep up an incessant chorus of achs and oh-me's.They started with the leadership,Delay, Lott,and Ashcroft,Rumsfeld,Cheney.They continue today with every move the administration makes.Time to put them under the microscope.