Why are the Democrats wasting time and resources with the US Attorney firings?

Question

US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President; he can hire and fire for any reason he wants. That Bush did or did not fire for "political" reasons is irrelevant. Weren't there some other more important issues the Democrats promised to work on?

Answer 1

well, why is REPUBLICAN Senator John Sununu asking that the Attorney General be fired?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070314/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/gonzales_prosecutors

You do not think that firing attorneys because they were investigating crimes committed by Administration officials warrants investigation?

You are sick and anti-American.

Answer 2

There might be other issues at hand however, the Republican minority who still has its knickers in a twist because of the current status does not want to do anything that can be beneficial to the nation as a whole, only what they can do to slow down the processes in the Congress so they can say it is a "do nothing" Congress vote us back in.
I am sick of both sides for doing this crap
In this case, we need to find out how this crap was done and prevent if from happening again under any administration, whether Republican or Democrat. If we don't fix what is broken, we will be back down this road again
The problem is that this IS political payback. The Justice Dept's own data shows that there had been 7 times more investigations into Democrats than there were Republicans. The thing that bit*ch slapped them was the fact that evidence that was being turned up in the "Democratic" investigations were actually Republican dirty dealings, so oops.
So they got pissed. Take for example, Sen Pete Domenici and U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
The attorney was investigating a Democrat and the Senator wanted information on the investigation at the time. This is a violation of ethics which Mr. Iglesias would not do.
Mr. Domenici wanted the Democrat indicted prior to the Nov 2006 election but the evidence just was not there. So he whined to the White House and out went Mr. Iglesias. They tried to claim it was "poor" performance but this was a crock and Mr. Iglesias was able to cite positive job reviews and data showing increasing numbers of prosecutions up until this dust up with the Senator.
I agree that we need to get rid of all corrupt politicians but we need to follow the law and seek justice not persecution.
Then there was the U.S. attorney for Guam who had opened an investigation into Jack Abramoff 2 years ago. He was just getting evidence together to possibly indict him then he was demoted and the investigation went away.
This is the pattern with the White House, protect the friends at all costs, to hell with justice

Answer 3

Yeah, especially when you consider that Clinton fired 93 US Attorneys when he got into office. Now that's unprecedented, but typical Clinton tactics. They're complaining about 8 firings when they fired 93. What a double standard !!

Most of those attorneys were involved in investigating the dozens of wrongdoings the Clintons were involved with like Whitewater etc etc. Firing them stopped all the investigations.

Also it stopped investigations into the numerous voting irregularities the Democrats were involved in. They're so good at corruption that no one can touch them. And of course the press is on their side, so you never hear anything about their criminal actions on 90% of the media outlets.

But I think things are turning around. People are starting to get the real news now. We're starting to see into the workings of the Democrats for the first time and they are being exposed for their corruptions.

The truth is always good.

Answer 4

The firings are no longer unremarkable. they did no longer clarify to the attorneys or the congress why they have been fired even to on the instant. that's a republican conversing element to assert that this type of interest has got here approximately in previous administrations. the previous presidents have been merely putting of their determination of attorneys on the beginning up of their presidency. No president previously G.W. Bush bumped off his very own attorneys. they are meant to be self reliant of the White abode different than that they could desire to uphold the regulation. The Senate needs to renowned if there have been political concerns made in removing the attorneys. needless to say one replaced into merely replaced by way of a buddy of Karl Rove. Alberto Gonzales could no longer remember why he universal the advice to fireplace incredibly much each and all the 8 attorneys fired. the whole ingredient stinks. Watch this clip.

Answer 5

Well that analysis is a little overly simplistic but whatever.

The real problem is that Attorney Gonzalez said something like "Oh, we just really wanted to get rid of some low performers. This is a limited firing." Come to find out, Attorney Gonzalez signed off on something to fire ALL of the US Attorneys - not just low performers. So he has been less than forthcoming with the truth. And if he is covering up here, what else is he covering up?

If you think that it is waste of resources to determine whether people in goverment are telling the truth or lying, then I am certainly happy you arent spending my money.

Answer 6

Normally, these attorneys are fired at the beginning of a new President's term, especially when he is of a different party from the prior President. However, to fire them in the middle of a term is very suspicious, especially when they were hired by Bush.

I think this has to do with the inspection of voter fraud. I think that Bush was afraid that he would be found out regarding the Florida situation in the Gore/Bush election debacle.

Answer 7

Lets see...maybe because all of the justices that were let go were the ones that challenged Bushs policies. He didnt really care until he lost control of the house and the senate....now all of a sudden there is this need to purge any liberal justices? Lets remember that the Dems are trying to dig out of a HUGE pile of scandalous garbage left for them by the aforementioned Mr. Bush. They are hitting points as they come up. We are finishing off Scooter, fixing the whole Iraq mess, trying to make friends with all the countries that 'W' pissed on, and looking at another record setting deficit. Democrats arent perfect but it takes time to fix things when EVERY aspect of the job of the president has been done so incredibly poorly. You can talk all you want about why we are 'wasting' resources on this stuff but lets remember who CREATED all of the things we are trying to fix.

Answer 8

You're right. The Clinton White House fired not a few U.S. attorneys, but ALL of them. The hypocrisy of going after the White House on this issue after not going after Clinton is stunning.

Why are they doing it? At least three reasons:

They really, really want to get rid of Gonzalez because he is a Hispanic serving in a Republican administration. They don't want Latino voters to realize that they can just as easily advance in the Republican party as in the Democratic party. That is also why they've attempted to demonize Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas. They want to "own" minority voters

They also want to continue demonizing all Republicans in the White House and elsewhere in order to convince voters that all Republicans are somehow corrupt, so as to advance their own power in future elections. They know it isn't true and that they have their own dirtly laundry, but they think that the average voter who isn't paying close attention ot the news can easily be convinced if the media play along with it.

In addition, they want to tie the White House's hands politically so that it cannot advance its agenda or even get rid of disloyal staff members.

Answer 9

Let me answer that with a question. Were the Republicans wasting time when Clinton did firing? Most likely. Then why?

The Congress and Senate are working on a lot of things. To think they are just working on one issue is ingnorant. They have to submit bills by a certain time. Those bills can reach the thousands. Once they are submitted is when hearings start and votes are made. They probably haven't even started voting yet. Here in my state, they just started the hearings at the state level. 4,000 bills were submitted by the House and 2,000 by the Senate.

Answer 10

Well, you have to bear in mind that the Scooter Libby case was winding down, and all they could say about that was "He better not get pardoned!"

No, Norman, this is not the first time "mass" firings have been conducted at this level, just the FIRST time in this administration.

Half a dozen lawyers out of all the US Attorneys isn't my idea of "mass". 100% of the Travel Office is though.