Carville On Late Edition Nailing The US Attorney Issue

[eleny]

He pushed all the nonsense reasoning aside and is just saying that the Dems are after one issue. That being that the administration wants to use the attorneys to go after Democrats and not go after Republicans.

[zulchzulu]

1. Carville Le Turncoat: a man who betrayed his party on Election night

I don't give a rat's ass what that traitor thinks.

[eleny]

2. Today he nailed it

And that's all I care about. It's very important that Dems, even DLC Dems, any Dem, talk about the heart of this issue.

The other side blathers on about the president's right to fire the attorneys. What Carville did was talk about the heart of the issue - the real reason they were fired. And I'm glad for that.

[movonne]

7. You are right.. his wife's left hand...

[MADem]

3. He distilled it down to the essentials--he did sweep away the bullshit.

I'm so tired of this "Clinton dismissed the US attorneys, TOO" bullshit that they keep trotting out. No, he did NOT, "toooooooooo." He did it at the START of his term, like REAGAN did, and Monkeyboy did, not three quarters of the way down the lane, firing people that he himself hired. They aren't equivalent.

It drives me nuts that not ONE fucking talking head will hoist the horseshit pennant on that "Little BIG Lie" -- they just let it wash over them, like the stupid twits that they are.

[Skink]

4. Right the issue is these guys that W hired wouldn't play ball.

[eleny]

6. Yup, and we need to hear more detals about that

We know that the California attorney did use half her office's budget on voting issues. But she also put Duke Cunningham in jail.

I'd like to see more of those attorney's tell what they think they did that got them shit-canned. The specifics.

[MADem]

11. HERE ya GO!!!!!! Iglesias: My Firing Was A ‘Political Hit’

THINKPROGRESS had to use Faux as the source, but the man speaks for himself: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/18/iglesias-political-hit/

Today on Fox News Sunday, former U.S. attorney David Iglesias beat back several misleading claims by Bush administration officials, and reasserted that his firing was a “political hit,” not done for performance reasons.

He pointed out that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales agreed to write him a recommendation even after he was fired. “If was performance based, there is no way they would have agreed to have allowed me to list them as a reference,” he said. “In fact, they agreed, telling me that the true nature was political, not performance.”

[eleny]

5. Today's talking point seems to be...

"This is a non issue". Whatever the issue.

Terry Jeffrey's just said the the Valerie Plamme affair is all but gone and means nothing. So, it's a "nothing to see here" day - in their dreams.

Should be an interesting week when none of it goes away.

[kirby]

8. And why hasnt the questions been asked?

Why doesn't one of the talk show hosts roll the footage of Gonzales, under oath, saying:

GONZALES: And so let me publicly sort of preempt perhaps a question you’re going to ask me, and that is: I am fully committed, as the administration’s fully committed, to ensure that, with respect to every United States attorney position in this country, we will have a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed United States attorney.

I think a United States attorney who I view as the leader, law enforcement leader, my representative in the community — I think he has greater imprimatur of authority, if in fact that person’s been confirmed by the Senate.

And then show the emails that of his own Chief of Staff concerned that they were going to go against the very thing above:

Kyle Sampson: "There is some risk that we’ll lose the authority, but if we don’t ever exercise it then what’s the point of having it?"

[MADem]

12. Well, Olbermann or Stewart aren't on at the weekend--that could be the reason.NT

[Robbien]

9. Big deal

So he goes on one show and tells the truth. But back at the DLC he is advising DC Dems to be quiet and say nothing and hope that the whole thing blows over.

The only Dems making any noise about this are those in the committee hearings.

[eleny]

10. this isn't so much about Carville but about the coordination of the Dem message of today

Schumer asserted it on MTP and Carville repeated it again on Late Edition. You may have noticed that the Republican talking point of today is that it's a non-issue. So, it's critical that anyone left of center is on the same page getting to the heart of the issues.

I have no information that he went back to DC and told Dems to be quiet. Do you have a link or proof of such? Not being a Carville watcher I don't follow him closely and could use some help validating your assertion.