[Cboldt]

-- This will rank right up there with Clinton firing all the federal prosecutors and the results will be the same. --

Bush fired all the federal prosecutors too.

Use the Nominations Search Tool at the US Library of Congress to compare ...

• US Attorneys Confirmed by the Senate Under President Clinton
  • 103rd Congress: 87
  • 104th Congress: 4
  • 105th Congress: 18
  • 106th Congress: 14
• US Attorneys Confirmed by the Senate Under President Bush
  • 107th Congress: 84
  • 108th Congress: 14
  • 109th Congress: 26
  • 110th Congress: 13

Obama's firing of Walpin is different, and I agree that it represents protection of a crony.

[saganite]

Clintoon supposedly fired all the prosecutors to cover up the firing of one particular prosecutor. The one looking into Whitewater. He replaced that prosecutor with a crony. Pretty much the same scenario going on here. Using the power of the presidency to cover up malfeasance. And the result will be the same. Nada.