I haven't been able to keep up on the news for a while, and I just don't understand what this is all about...please help!
2007-03-26 16:42:28 · 6 answers · asked by jenteacher2001 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
1. Why did he fire the attornies?
2. Why shouldn't he be able to fire whomever he wants to if it is his department and others before him have done the same thing (if they have?)
3. I still don't get why this is such a big deal...
2007-03-26 16:50:12 · update #1
TE is not helping... thankfully has enough courage in his convictions to keep his email and IM private, so as to avoid the consequences of his actions (dang, he IS a republican).
The attorney general and prosecutors are not intended to be tools of a political party, but representatives of all of the American public and its laws.
While little is public about exactly who did what when (because the president will not allow these discussions), it is alleged that prosecutors that refused to go after Republican enemies were fired, not because of their inability to do the job, but because they wouldn't do political bidding.
While it is the president's prerogative to appoint political office holders, this situation is different. King George asked for (and got, from a republican congress) a provision in the patriot act that allowed him to replace these prosecutors without congressional review- (the dems have since changed this back). He was in a position to, without any congressional oversight, load the rifle of the US Federal Prosecutors' office with people that would act on behalf of him and his party, not the people of the United States, and replace them on a whim... which scares me.
And where do TE and the other republican sheep get off saying Clinton was given a free pass-
1)Clinton is NO LONGER the president. And even if Clinton was equal parts Hitler, Stalin, and Caligula, that doesn't make every stupid, illegal and just plain shady thing that G-dumb does OK
2) No big deal for Clinton's questionable acts? He was IMPEACHED for *&$^# sake.
2007-03-26 17:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is the separation between the justice department and the Whitehouse which Gonazales seems to have crossed and then lied about it.
Attorneys are usually fired when a new administration comes in, but these have been fired well into the administration's second term and appears to be connected with them prosecuting republican politicians for corruption which the administration didn't like and tried to have stopped.
Bush's way of dealing with problems........bend the law.
2007-03-26 23:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off its a big deal OK. Second the reason its a big deal, heres the thing those attorneys lifes are at stake OK. They have job and lively hoods, family's to feed. They have to "put food on the table" and its a big deal because its illegal and lastly because he did it so publicly. However the white house is supporting him fully so theres no way he will get in to much trouble since president Bush is supporting him 100%. If the government has your back you cant get in deep ****.
2007-03-26 23:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by Ashlee from the Green Berets 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a big deal because it is politics 101.
2007-03-26 23:58:39 · answer #4 · answered by Da Coach 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the dems make a big deal about everything.
2007-03-26 23:59:12 · answer #5 · answered by Cinner 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is basically a big deal because it is a Republican administration. When it was Clinton, there was no big deal about it.
2007-03-26 23:46:01 · answer #6 · answered by TE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋