Bush's defenders are absolutely right - U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President.

[seemslikeadream]

Not Gonzales, Not Rove. Bush.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-curtis-fox/not-gonzales-not-rove-b_b_43776.html

We know the least of what the President knew and the latest he could have known it.

While we have yet to fully discover who conceived the plan to fire the U.S. Attorneys, who nurtured the plan, and who finalized the list, there is no question as to who executed it: George W. Bush.


In this, Bush's defenders are absolutely right - U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. Not the Attorney General, not the President's Counsel, not his political advisor. The buck stops at the big desk in the Oval Office.

[Justice]

1. oh my goodness - that really says it all doesn't it

[FormerDittoHead]

2. I'm not one to single out just one of them...

The root of being a Republican is to subscribe to authoritative loyalty.

To single out Bush, IMO, is to give him too much personal credit while letting so many others off the hook. (ie: Republicans, every last stinkin' one of them).

I confess I haven't read this whole thing that closely, but frankly, I don't need to after hearing some things on the Sam Seder show.

Everyone reaches their bottom line at different points. I don't need to go any farther than hearing that, in one instance, a Senator called one of the prosecutors in order to (cutting to the chase) have him speed up the indictment of a given State Senator to help influence an election last November.

Again, I forgot who this was or even the state, but the point is that I don't believe, for a minute, that George Bush was at the nexis of this action or the subsequent choices of who was going to be fired for their lack of loyalty.

But this is the way Republicans) work. I don't want to cut off one arm only to have two grow back, rather, we have to focus on the big picture, and that is EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM that was involved in this.

People should know that it's not just one man or his lack of judgment who's at fault here, its their SYSTEM, their way of doing things. And the problem with their SYSTEM is that the ideology that it is supposed to serve is CORRUPT and BROKEN.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Senator Demented from New Mexico

[FormerDittoHead]

5. That was it. thanks for keeping track closer than I. n/t

[MGKrebs]

4. Yes but if you are hoping for some wholesale purge of all

republicans or even neocons, it is unlikely to happen. This is how it works, one piece at a time. Look at who is gone so far:
Powell
Ashcroft
Rumsfeld
Feith
Tenet
Wolfowitz
Perle
Libby

Those are bad guys, or at least they did bad things, and they are as gone as they can be without being in prison. A few more to go.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. I hope there's a subpoena in the Chimp's future to get his testimony under oath too

I wouldn't want him to feel left out.