The Truth About Political Scandals
Shawn McCarthy
Issue date: 3/30/07 Section: Commentary
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The Democratic Party and their minions in the mainstream media are constantly talking about scandals and immoral behavior. Their scandal detection is so sensitive, that they often find scandals that are not even real. They employ selective moral outrage, convenient double-standards and deception to win political points and deceive the public. Many people buy right into it without asking questions.
Well, my liberal friends, I have a detector as well. It's called the "BF" detector, and it can catch partisan lies and hypocrisy that smells like bovine feces. My BF detector has been going off non-stop since the Dems took control of Congress, and it is time to sift through the BF to get at the truth.
U.S. Attorney Firing Scandal
Most of you have heard about the so-called scandal regarding the "questionable" firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Let's examine this issue first.
Myth: President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fired district attorneys for illegal or questionable reasons. This behavior is unusual and beyond the normal conduct of U.S. presidents. IT'S A SCANDAL!
Truth: U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president. That has always been the case. They are usually recommended by senators from their state and given their jobs for political reasons as well as legal reasons. You may disagree with this, but it is common practice. Most presidents replace a large majority of them when they begin their administration. Clinton fired 93 of them (all except one) in one fell swoop at the outset of his term, Bush did his replacements more gradually and still has not replaced all of them. It is a little unusual for presidents to replace attorneys midterm like Bush just did, but it is not unheard of and certainly not illegal.
The only possible legal issue would be if the attorneys were fired because they were investigating a case that was of particular political interest to the administration and the president was trying to affect the outcome of the investigation by dismissing the attorney. There is no evidence that this is the case. None, whatsoever. Internal emails released by the Department of Justice state that seven of the eight were fired because they did not enforce laws in the manner the administration would prefer (for instance, one of the attorneys refused to prosecute illegal immigrants unless they had several offenses, and another refused to prosecute marijuana trafficking across the border unless it exceeded a certain amount) and the eighth was fired because the administration had someone else they wanted to give the job to. This is all perfectly legal.
Well, my liberal friends, I have a detector as well. It's called the "BF" detector, and it can catch partisan lies and hypocrisy that smells like bovine feces. My BF detector has been going off non-stop since the Dems took control of Congress, and it is time to sift through the BF to get at the truth.
U.S. Attorney Firing Scandal
Most of you have heard about the so-called scandal regarding the "questionable" firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Let's examine this issue first.
Myth: President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fired district attorneys for illegal or questionable reasons. This behavior is unusual and beyond the normal conduct of U.S. presidents. IT'S A SCANDAL!
Truth: U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president. That has always been the case. They are usually recommended by senators from their state and given their jobs for political reasons as well as legal reasons. You may disagree with this, but it is common practice. Most presidents replace a large majority of them when they begin their administration. Clinton fired 93 of them (all except one) in one fell swoop at the outset of his term, Bush did his replacements more gradually and still has not replaced all of them. It is a little unusual for presidents to replace attorneys midterm like Bush just did, but it is not unheard of and certainly not illegal.
The only possible legal issue would be if the attorneys were fired because they were investigating a case that was of particular political interest to the administration and the president was trying to affect the outcome of the investigation by dismissing the attorney. There is no evidence that this is the case. None, whatsoever. Internal emails released by the Department of Justice state that seven of the eight were fired because they did not enforce laws in the manner the administration would prefer (for instance, one of the attorneys refused to prosecute illegal immigrants unless they had several offenses, and another refused to prosecute marijuana trafficking across the border unless it exceeded a certain amount) and the eighth was fired because the administration had someone else they wanted to give the job to. This is all perfectly legal.
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