Fitzgerald responds when asked if he wants to stay on the job

[Oilwellian]

It's just too early in the morning to wrap my brain around this one:

(snip)
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was a bit coy Wednesday when asked if he wants to stay on the job.

"I'm going to just do my job until somebody tells me otherwise," he said. "I love my job. I'm very, very lucky to work with the people behind me. I have no plans to do anything else."

(snip)
How many more years would he like to serve?

"I'm not going to start lobbying for a job," he said. "You always serve at the pleasure and the will of the president. You're not guaranteed four years. You're just told you're very lucky to get a job. You do your job and if someone tells you it no longer serves the pleasure of the president, you pack your bags and you move on.''

Chuckling a little, he added, "I'm just doing my job, and if the phone doesn't ring and someone tells me to leave, I just keep doing my job."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-fitz04.html

[bobbieinok]

1. doesn't sound good with repub senators going after his investigation

[aquart]

2. Daring Bush? Or begging him?

[Oilwellian]

5. That's exactly what I was wondering

My instinct tells me he's daring him. He mentions "the people behind me." Veddy interrresting.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Interesting indeed

So if Bush fires him it would look bad on Bush I think. Plus, to me, it'd show that Rove was guilty. Bush can't make his brain look guilty.

[NewJeffCT]

10. yes, it would look bad to us, but the corporate media...

the Corporate Media would buy into the BS RW spin of "Fitzgerald was an out of control prosecutor" and after a few days of back & forth between RW talking heads & moderate talking heads on cable news, it would all be forgotten.

[kevsand]

3. This is all in reference to his job as U.S. Attorney in Illinois'

Northern District (Chicago). That position is by appointment, and his term there is up this year. It is not in reference to his position as Special Prosecutor for Plamegate, which is completely separate.

[Oilwellian]

7. But...

It's been discussed all week whether he would continue to be a special prosecutor in the Plame case, IF he's let go as a US attorney.
There are obviously many who would like to see him go....and it would especially be a "pleasure to the president" to see him taken off of the Plame investigation.

[kevsand]

9. People can discuss it all they want,

and no doubt will, but no one yet has been able to show anywhere that his position as Special Prosecutor depends on his continuance as a U.S. Attorney. That's because it's simply not a requirement.

The powerful people who don't want him to be reappointed in Illinois are mostly Democrats. Daley and Blagojevich are both scared to death of him. He's already nailed most of the really guilty Republicans.

It is obvious to everyone on the ground in Illinois that this statement of his on Wednesday is regarding the U.S. Attorney's job, and does not refer directly to the Plame investigation. It's possible that he may be sending an oblique message to Bush regarding some personal linkage between the two positions (ala "If you don't reappoint me as U.S. Attorney, I'll roast your administration as Special Prosecutor for the next decade"), but I don't see that in the text, and I think it is pointless to speculate about it.

[JDPriestly]

4. He is not intimidated.

All he can do is to do his job well. He is doing that. His critics are just serving their political masters.

[Alizaryn]

8. My hope is that Fitzgerald is giving the impression

that his investigation will finish up late October yet has every intension of bringing it to a close before that. The are going to be out for his head in every way we can imagine,( and some we cannot).
I hope he pulls it off!