Look, nobody cares that every president since the beginning of...well, forever...has replaced the USA's when they took office. CLINTON did it! That makes the Democrats a bunch of hypocrits! You can talk all you want about how every Republican prez has done it too, but it doesn't take away the fact that CLINTON did it! You can even try to argue that its standard procedure under what is known as the "spoils system", but it doesn't matter because Clinton, imperator of all things evil, did it! That damned liberal media covered it all up too, barely reporting on another important event of what happens when a president takes over office for the first time. They probably didn't even mention that Bush I's cabinet was FIRED (oh, the gall!) and replaced with people Clinton liked...
Yep, I'm so happy we have Fox News and talk radio pundits now to tell us who REALLY won elections and all those stories we missed before while the left-wing conspiracy was rocking.
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I really tried to like right-wingnuts, I honestly tried. I still don't hate them, I just pity them at how gullible and easily they can be used as tools to spread inane talking points and perpetuate stupidity as handed down from on-high...how they can believe anything so long as it can be said in a 15-second or less sound bite, absolutely devoid of context or even facts.
What is being established in this particular scandal is that the 8 (and more are coming forward) US attorneys that were loyal Republicans second to being actually ethical, dragged their feet in an election year in scandals involving Democratic candidates and voter issues that Rove blamed for causing losses in Congress. They were then fired for "performance reasons" (this is where Gonzo fucked up).
Now, how would you feel being a patriotic American, an ethical attorney, and also a loyal Republican soldier, doing your job, and then were let go for "performance reasons" in the middle of your term. Of course they didn't like it, it effects their CAREER. Basically they were told they were lazy and incompetent, when they knew otherwise, and politically chopped up for not pursuing a partisan agenda in their office.
THEN Gonzo, when questioned, lied about it. Of course that makes people curious and raises eyebrows...and...gasp...gets media attention. Now, several conclusions from these firings can be drawn, none of them good, which is why the Dems are smelling blood. The 3000 pages of email released so far has given some ammunition for each of these conclusions:
1) They were fired as punishment for not pursuing partisan agenda in an election year.
2) They were fired for having a track record which included investigations into Republican corruption.
3) They were fired for on-going investigations into Republican corruption.
4) They were fired to be replaced by more "loyal" soldiers, and, as magically amended in the Patriot Act II, they no longer need congressional approval to do so.
5) They were fired as a distraction for other scandals to tie up investigators, and Cheney/Rove will throw Gonzo under the bus to save themselves when the time is right.
6) They were fired to keep them from going forward with ethics complaints to congress, which some of them had filed, from being harrassed by Republican congress members trying to push them to prosecute Democrats.
7) They were fired because of their record of integrity, which would be a bad thing for the Repugs if more scandals come out later.
I'm sorry, that took a paragraph or two to explain...maybe we should stick to "Clinton did it!", its easier on the brain.
PS to the OP: Half the names on that list are immediately recognizable neo-con propogandists...Graham, Savage, and Limbaugh jump right out and bite you and I'm sure a little digging will uncover the credentials of the rest are equally "unreliable".
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