<p>Oh yes…Let them pollute, steal, have no oversite or threat of the law!!! Yes…the wild west, that is what Miss Mini wants!!!</p>
<p>She should love Iraq then</p>
<p>what i love is the doing it for political reasons is aokay, but talking about it is just political…yeah, a rovism</p>
<p>“One thing you can say for mini, I’ll bet she’s one of the few people on earth who’s been to Cosmopolis.”</p>
<p>mini is a HE.</p>
<p>“All roads lead to Rove.”</p>
<pre><code>–classical epigram
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<p>“Let them immiserate the Third World through so-called “free trade”, export jobs and pollution to China, let six-year olds became enslaved and sew soccer balls in Pakistan, let farmers be kicked off their lands in southern Mexico and El Salvador and high-tail it across the U.S.-Mexico border, kill half a million children and call it acceptable, and appoint a CIA director to cover up their genocidal lies.”</p>
<p>This is what CGM wants. ;)</p>
<p>"“All roads lead to Rove.”</p>
<p>too bad it is a dead end st.</p>
<p>China is a very big boy. I think they can run their country without your 2 cents. You know–respect differences and all that stuff.</p>
<p>They can run our atmospheric gases and global warming too - thanks to Clinton and Gore and those other oh-so-environmentally-holy dems.</p>
<p>The story here is the timing. Turning over the US attorneys at the beginning of a new adminstration is not as odd as doing so in the middle of the second.</p>
<p>Or they can follow India’s lead and have bad coal and nuke plants.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1011/p07s01-wosc.html[/url]”>http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1011/p07s01-wosc.html</a></p>
<p>DadGuy, the issue is also one of using the previously unavailable provisions in the Patriot Act to appoint new US attorneys without going through Senate confirmation. This is part of a pattern where this administration will use the so-called War on Terror for partisan political purposes at any time they think they can. And then they wonder why the country isn’t united behind them.
All the fired attorneys were Republican. The problem, from the administration’s point of view, is that they weren’t partisan enough or compliant enough. Which begs the question about those who passed the “loyalty” evaluation…just what have <em>they</em> been doing?</p>
<p>In my former life, I worked for the Executive Office for US Attorneys in the Department of Justice for several years. All US attorneys are political hires; they are known as PASAs (or something like that), which means presidential appointment; senate approved. Unless the law specifies otherwise the president should be able to hire and fire them at will. In any case some of the USAs are incompetent either legally or managerially or both and should be removed.</p>
<p>I think the real story in Washington is not this, it’s the illegal actions of the FBI. Why isn’t this the focus of the Dems outrage? The Director of the FBI and the AG should be fired for that. The USA thing is just real small potatoes.</p>
<p>Give that story time to build, TS.</p>
<p>But the US Attorneys story has legs: the abuse of a provision of the Patriot Act to evade Senate confirmation of replacements. And the meta-story of the raw partisan motives in replacing attorneys who weren’t sufficiently partisan for the White House’s taste has legs too, legal proprieties be damned.</p>
<p>The “Clinton did it, too” line is absurd. Every president replaces the U.S. Attorneys at the start of his term. Reagan did it, Bush I did not (since his admin was somewhat of a continuation of Reagan’s), then Clinton, then Bush II. That is usual and normal.</p>
<p>Firing 8 USAs in the middle of an administration is not normal. Their performance evaluations were good. Many were either investigating corruption or not investigating/indicting Democrats. As the e-mails released yesterday showed, Karl Rove was involved.</p>
<p>The real abuse of the Patriot Act (abuse, Patriot Act, redundant) was what the FBI did. Who cares about a bunch of political appointees? With certain exceptions USAs are not appointed for their lawyering skills. </p>
<p>In three months the AUSAs in their offices wouldn’t be able to remember the names of their former bosses.</p>
<p>More on the prevalence of firing US Attnys:</p>
<p><a href=“Web Page Under Construction”>Web Page Under Construction;
<p>“The real abuse of the Patriot Act (abuse, Patriot Act, redundant) was what the FBI did. Who cares about a bunch of political appointees? With certain exceptions USAs are not appointed for their lawyering skills.”</p>
<p>I’m with you. One set of Republican political hacks being replaced by another, while the Dems, (whose Pres. replaced them ALL), refuse to take on Mueller.</p>
<p>John Sununu [NH] now calls for firing of Alberto Gonzalez. Shall we just say Donner Party?</p>
<p>I think this gang lies reflexively. It’s like they just can’t help it. A culture of lying.</p>
<p>As opposed to the Democrat’s penchant for truth?</p>