To compare these two episodes is to say that when a dog bites a man it is as newsworthy as when a man bites a dog. The comparison simply doesn’t work. As I have mentioned here before, every incoming president seeks to install into office his crop of federal prosecutors. Republican presidents have done this and so have Democrats and it is such routine that it barely makes any news. Existing federal prosecutors know that, when the president who appointed them leaves office, they had better start updating the resume. Like it or not, this practice is not controversial. It is a rule that has governed the game for decades.
So, please, let’s all stop trying to compare the “Reno 93” with the “Gonzales 8.” Even Republican lawmakers are growing uneasy with that inapt comparison. One legal scholar after another, and one veteran Justice Department watcher after another, has come forward to say that it is extraordinary for a White House to fire a federal prosecutor mid-term, or even mid-presidency, absent some extraordinary misfeasance or malfeasance on the part of the U.S. Attorney. Here is just the latest to do so.
"Pong was designed so you could participate in athletics while maintaining a firm grip on a can of beer." -- Al Alcorn, co-founder of Atari
Thursday, March 15, 2007
MSM liberal bias (still, again)
Right on cue, a liberal newsman working for a liberal news company tells us why Bubba Clinton firing 93 federal prosecutors is normal and accepted, but when Bush fires eight, it's a sign that he's Adolf Hitler reincarnated. CBS:
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