Aztec Sacrifice

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Jane Hamsher, Marcy Wheeler, and McJoan triumphantly hold aloft Alberto Gonzales’ still-beating heart.

Comments

  1. rachel wrote:

    And Gonzales is giving them the “thumb’s up?”

    Posted 20 Mar 2007 at 5:27 am

  2. Redhand wrote:

    The author of the “torture memo” getting his just desserts, IMHO.

    Posted 20 Mar 2007 at 7:11 am

  3. John the Marine wrote:

    I know that I’m a Lefty bashing unreasonable evil conservative, but what is the controversy here? So, what Bush/Gonzales fired some Federal D.A.’s. Hell Clinton fired all 93 of them and I don’t recall the slightest wimper about it. So, what they were fired for ploitical reasons. Well guess what thems the brakes when you work for the Gov. If I were Bush, I would tell the Dems in Congress to mind their own business. This has got to be the biggest non-issue to date and the MSM is covering it like the second coming of Christ. Oh, wait a minute. Bad anology, the Progressive media would try to bury that one.

    Posted 20 Mar 2007 at 8:36 am

  4. rabit wrote:

    John The Marine:

    So, what Bush/Gonzales fired some Federal D.A.’s. Hell Clinton fired all 93 of them and I don’t recall the slightest wimper about it.

    Slightest whimper? Where you even listening? Republicans DID complain when Clinton did his purge of US Attorneys when he took office. Some of them even refused to resign and Janet Reno then fired them.

    Was this illegal? Nope, because any incoming president has the right to select which US Attorneys serve “at the pleasure of the President.” In fact, Bush did the same thing in his first term in 2001.

    What makes this different? The e-mails make it clear that these 8 US Attorneys were a “problem” for the republican party. Either they were not pursuing weak cases against democrat politicians, or they were pursuing strong cases against republican. Carol Lam was fired because she was behind the prosecution of republicans Duke Cunningham, Kyle Foggo, and Brent Wilkes, and was apparently pursuing other republican politicos, money going to hotel visits and prostitutes, and so on.

    So firing a US attorney is not necessarily illegal in and of itself, but if it is established that the firing was in order to stop a criminal investigation because the subject of the investigation is republican, then it is clearly illegal.

    Posted 20 Mar 2007 at 4:24 pm

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