I was going to write a post about the growing scandal surrounding the firings of eight US attorneys, but Shakespeare’s Sister and Miss Wild Thing were kind enough to do it for me, so go read. Bushco philosophy in a nutshell: if your political appointees turn out to have backbones, as well as job skills, use the “Patriot” Act to get rid of them and replace them with people who will bend over for you.
I do love a Democratic congress with subpoena power — power used to investigate real corruption, not blowjobs.
HA!!! LOVE that last line.
[...] Gonzales has carried water for the Bush administration since before his appointment as Attorney General, supporting W’s power-grabbing without concern for the law, the constitution, or basic human decency. Now it seems he and Karl Rove worked together to dump eight US attorneys who weren’t going along with political prosecutions; in Arkansas, the fired US attorney was replaced with one of Rove’s opposition researchers. Gee, Arkansas. Think there’s any significance to that? [...]