Posted by
Gamecock on Saturday, March 17, 2007 6:34:51 AM
U.S. Attorneys General serve at the pleasure of the Chief Executive, i.e. The President of the United States. They can be fired for any reason at anytime. There is no substance to any Democratic Party complaints and nothing to investigate. There is no ethical or legal reason for Attorney Gonzales to apologize or resign.
Cross-posted at The HinzSight Report
But two aspects of the story strike Gamecock as significant to conservatives: competence and Harriet Miers.
As to competence, the story reveals the overall fecklessness, i.e. incompetence of Republican attempts to tame the Executive Branch that Achance has written of so well, especially in his recent, I'm going to bore you all again.
As to Harriet Miers, it appears that she, and almost no one else around President Bush nor Bush himself, understands that controlling personnel is an indispensable key in taming the government one is elected to lead, and that asking for resignations from all political appointees at the beginning of a term is a no-brainer first step in the taming process.
From The Houston Chronicle
The e-mails released Tuesday revealed that the firings were considered and discussed for two years by Justice Department and White House officials. The issue first arose in a February 2005 discussion between Sampson and Miers, officials said. At the time, Miers suggested the possibility of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys. Such purges of the political appointees often come at the beginning of a new president's administration, not midway through.
Lawyer Miers understood what President Bill Clinton understood about the necessity of taking control of one's realm, albeit partially for different reasons. But this episode of incompetence points out the naiveté of Republicans in general and Bushes in particular. There is no getting along with liberals. They must be defeated and purged.
I am not surprised that the same lady that helped Bush pick great judges in Texas and in Washington, D.C. was a voice of competence and ruthless reason in this matter as well, despite baseless caricatures painted of her by too many here at Redstate and across the Beltway the last two years.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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