Wrong again Dubya...

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During this whole attorney-canning fiasco both “President” Bush and Karl “President” Rove argued that the administration’s U.S. attorney purge was a “normal” and “ordinary” process that was also carried out not only by President Clinton, but also by President Reagan.

While a plethora of Liberal blogs (like Think Progress) have written that that wasn’t true, it was falling on the deaf ears of conservative pundits who used it as their rallying cry…

Well, they can stop the rallying and start the crying as the fat lady has sung. The Congressional Research Service, CRS, has nailed that possibility shut when they released a report earlier this week that examined the tenure of all U.S. Attorneys that were confirmed by the Senate between the years 1981 and 2006 (from Reagan, Bush #1, Clinton and Bush #2 – how fitting –) in order to determine how many had served and how many of them had been forced to resign for reasons other than an administration change.

The answer is, shall we say, enlightening…

Of the 468 attorney confirmations made by the Senate over that 25-year period, a total of 10 left office involuntarily (prior to the firings that took place in December of course) for reasons other than a change in administration… you read that right; ten. Ten out of 468… why, that’s less than 2%…

‘It was done by every President before me’ Dubya implies… to that I say; “Wronggggggg! That’s wronnngggg!”

Furthermore, in almost every case there were issues of actual personal or professional conduct that seemed to be the issue prompting the axing… (there’s a concept for ya) and was not a retaliation for not playing ball or going against the grain of the party in charge.

This situation perfectly illustrates not only how much this administration lies, but also the fact that the administration pushed out close to as many U.S. Attorneys in December alone that had been let go total over the past 25 years…

Should this action come as a surprise from this administration?
Absolutely not…

Will it actually have any effect on the way this administration operates?

Perhaps…

Will it allow the Democratically-controlled House and Senate to show Bush that he can no longer unilaterally operate anymore?

Most likely…

Will it make Bush actually change his ways?Abso-fuckin-lutely not… nothing will.

But it should give us some interesting and entertaining viewing for the next few weeks… so stay tuned…

UPDATE: The Bush(whacked) Administration is working overtime to make AttorneyGate disappear… but instead they’re making it look more and more like Watergate.

Most of us remember the 18-minute gap in the Watergate tapes? Well, now it seems that Bush has his own gap of 18… but his version is 18 days.

Researchers have discovered an 18-day gap in the 3,000 documents on the U.S. Attorney purge released this week by the Justice Department, with the gap extending from mid-November to early December, which was a “critical period as the White House and Justice Department reviewed, then approved, which U.S. attorneys would be fired…” all while developing a political and communications strategy that would counter any possible fallout from the firings.

One of the last emails before the gap is from AG Alberto Gonzales’ ex-COS Kyle Sampson to then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers, that asked, “Who will determine whether this requires the president’s attention?”

CNN’s Ed Henry noted that to White House spokesman Tony Snow, and Snow once again refused to explain the gap and told reporters, “I’ve been led to believe that there’s a good response for it,” before adding that “President” Bush has “no recollection of this ever being raised with him.”

Spin away boys… spin away… the more you do, the worse it will all be when the other shoe drops…