So, Gonzales was justified, and he still fired his aide?
I just don't get why this Administration keeps blinking every time a Dem challenges them.
Just more Dim-driven non-news
This is what you get for trying to play nice with a group that has no intention of returning the favor.
there's a reason why people call the dems the "evil party"
and the pubs the "stupid party".
The majority in yesterday’s decision pointed to a 1998 dissent in which “at least three current members (and one former member) of the Supreme Court have read ‘bear arms’ in the Second Amendment to have meaning beyond mere soldiering.” They were former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in 2005, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and David H. Souter.
Ginsburg & Souter, who knew?
Did you know that in New York City, through 1969 virtually all the public high schools had riflery teams?
Thousands of students carried their rifles on subways, buses and streets on their way to school, when they went to practice in the afternoon and on their way home. And until 1963, all commercial pilots were required to carry guns and were allowed to carry guns until 1987.
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President Clinton, through Janet Reno, fired all of the U.S. Attorneys after he was elected. Clinton used the mass firing as a means of covering up his real intention -- to fire the U.S. Attorney in his home state of Arkansas. They didn't call Clinton "Slick Willie" for nothing.
Merrit was a Clinton knee-padder. How does her statement that the attorneys should not be fired in '07 square with Schumer's call for Gonzales to resign? Shouldn't he have to wait till '09 when the new president is sworn in ?
Just now, on the hourly news, my local (Sacramento) radio station announced Chuckie Schumer is complaining about the firings, and then added: "Former President Clinton fired all of the Attorneys General when he first took office." Nice to see at least a little of the other side of the story.
I tried to post this info on Powerline ...to no avail
(if anyone can post it ...go ahead)
From Alb Journal:
Written by Bruce Daniels - ABQnewsSeeker
Friday, 09 March 2007
Pundit Fred Barnes finds nothing wrong with calling prosecutors about ongoing cases.
8:20am UPDATE: Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White, an outspoken Republican, just got through with a phone interview with 770 KKOB Radio's morning show fill-in host Pat Frisch, telling Frisch and listeners that complaints about fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias's performance had been circulating since at least 2004 and not from politicians, but from federal law enforcement officials (none of whom were named).
White also claimed that New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, who chaired Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where Iglesias and other fired U.S. attorneys testified, was being hypocritical. Schumer, White said, had himself leaned on federal prosecutors early in the push to find whoever leaked the name of former CIA operative (and soon-to-be Santa Fe resident) Valerie Plame Wilson to the media.
http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2857&Itemid=2
Oh brother ...
The real scandal is that NOBODY ever gets fired in the DC bureaucracy! The great Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, would famously demand of his managers that the cull out the lowest 10-20% of performer each year, arguing that there is always a bell-curve, and that there always are sub-par performers (by definition). Only in government bureaucracies does incompetence get rewarded again and again by that blind eye of neglect.
Was it not Clinton who, in 1993, fired all but one U.S. Attorney--most appointed by Republicans? Where was the outcry then?
I found this little exchange at NPR (it doesn't matter who, just a couple of pant stains posing as NPR journalists). I just marvel at the amount of shit these guys can shovel and not gag on the stench.
How unusual is it for a U.S. attorney to be fired?
It's very unusual. Richard Nixon fired one when he was in office. [Jimmy] Carter fired a U.S. attorney who was making an investigation of a Democratic House member that he wanted to keep in office. Bill Clinton fired one. But it's really very rare for this to happen.
In this case it was eight attorneys.
That is close to unprecedented. … I did a book on the Justice Department, and I just have never seen something like this.
Now, that being said, when a president comes into office, historically, all the U.S. attorneys leave. And he appoints a new set of these individuals — there are about 90 of them.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8356415
I guess we're supposed to learn from this exchange that when Bill Clinton came into office and all 93 U.S. attorneys abruptly cleaned out their offices and left at the same time to be replaced by a new set of individuals it was NOT because they were FIRED by the new administration. No, of course not. They just LEFT. Because that's what HISTORICALLY happens. ALL the U.S. attorneys JUST LEAVE. On their OWN. For NO REASON!
Pardon me if I sound a little bit incredulous.
The Dems are really after Heather Wilson (R-New Mexico) and her compalaining about the US Attorney's office. There were a lot of irregularities in 2000, 2002, and 2006 in New Mexico. I don't believe the US Attorney ever moved on this, at least I never heard a thing about it, and I wondered why.