[Conscience of a Conservative]

Bush did this differently, and was savaged for it. His loss.

To be fair, Bush did replace all (or most) of the US Attorneys when he took office in 2001. What was different was that he also fired a few of those who he had hired, in the middle of his term. That action was somewhat unusual. There was, of course, nothing wrong with what he did(they do, after all, serve at the pleasure of the President), but it was unusual.

[ASOC]

True, thank you for expanding on the comment.

The ones fied mid term raised Cain as well. THe Press was happy to dive in and - well, we all saw the results.

Bush will be remembered for many things, as is -say, Jimmy Carter.

I guess the real proof will be in what we tell our grandkids, eh?

[Eagle Forgotten]

Thanks to Conscience of a Conservative for correcting the error in many of the posts here. Bush did begin his term by firing all of Clinton's U.S. Attorney appointees. I don't know of any recent change of party control of the White House that didn't involve firing all or almost all the U.S. attorneys.

Obama will surely do the same, though he might retain Fitzgerald to avoid any appearance that he's trying to short-circuit an investigation that could affect him personally.