Why is this so hard for people to understand? The President has to abide by the law. Clinton did so although he broke tradition; he was legally entitled to fire all of those prosecutors...its just that no one had ever done it at the very beginning of an administration in one fell swoop. President Bush followed tradition and gradually replaced them as their cases were finished.
they can't be fired, correct.
but they can be controlled, by appointing their bosses.
let's take a tiny case in point - the Jeanine Pirro case. what the hell is DOJ doing wiretapping and conducting an investigation on a woman who wants to find out whether her husband is having an affair, and wants to monitor her own phone to get information about his infidelity? what US attorney approved that crap?
I'll tell you the answer - remember who Pirro was supposed to run against for the Senate in NY, and you'll have your answer as to why that was done. I want to know - who approved it? on the day that story broke, Alberto Gonzales should have fired the US attorney who approved that partisan hit job. the same goes for Curt Weldon's daughter, another hit job.
its almost as if DOJ is run by someone else - we win elections, elect a two term president - and the opposition party controls DOJ.
It's not that they don't understand it .. it's that they don't like it
I've had this argument with one of my brother's more times then I care to count
He also is mad that President Bush doesn't just sign EO's left and right to get things done and bypass Congress
When I point out to him that he wants a conservative version of Bill Clinton and not a President who follows the Constitution and the laws, he then proceeds to snap on me and says I'm putting words in his mouth