[ntnychik]

Hillary made sure there weren't any Bush 41 holdovers. Even the volunteer correspondence ladies and the White House worker who spoke to Barbara Bush about her computer were canned.

For the first time in history, Janet Reno fired all the U.S. Attorneys, ending all their pending cases.

For the first time ever, Bill Clinton, in the closing days of his administration, turned all his political appointees into instant civil servants.

Pres. Bush's first acts should have been a large layoff, back to the date that change took place and to reinstate good U.S. Attorneys.

[Eagle Forgotten]

For the first time in history, Janet Reno fired all the U.S. Attorneys, ending all their pending cases.

Why would firing the individual who heads the office end all the pending cases? If this were true, there'd be absolute chaos whenever a U.S. Attorney was replaced for political reasons.

Each U.S. Attorney's office has a large staff of Assistant U.S. Attorneys. For just about every pending case, some civil servant lower down on the chain would know more about it than the political appointee at the top.

[Miss Marple]

1. The firing of all of the US attorneys did not, as Eagle Forgotten points out, end all pending cases.

2. Bill CLinton did not turn ALL of his political appointees into civil servants. If he had, all of those Clintonistas wouldn't be appearing on TV as "former" officials. He converted about 75 mid-level political appointees to civil service jobs.

3. IT IS ILLEGAL TO FIRE CIVIL SERVICE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION. While it is true that Clinton did some of this (travel office, correspondence staff) he got away with it because he had a democrat Congress who would not criticize him, and a faawning press. Should President Bush have attempted a mass layoff, he would have been castigated and all appointments to cabinet positions would have been bottled up in Congress.