The President Finds His Backbone on U.S. Attorneys

Clinton fired and replaced every U.S. Attorney. Democrats are in an uproar because Bush fired eight?

by Rod D. Martin
March 20, 2007

We love the President, but the handling of this U.S. Attorney thing has been awful. These guys serve at the pleasure of the President: he can hire them and fire them at will. And no one should know this better than the thoroughly hypocritical Democrats, whose favorite President Mr. Clinton fired ALL the U.S. Attorneys and appointed partisan Democrat operatives in their place at the very beginning of his first term.

And now guys like Chuckie Schumer and Joe "The Plaigerist" Biden are all in an uproar because the firing of eight of these guys might have been "politically motivated"???

So just moments ago, the President stood up, gave a press conference in the East Room, and said he will defend his Attorney General and will defend his prerogatives.

Well thank God.

As I said (rather loudly) on our weekly White House conference call, if the President will roll over on this, he might as well just move home to Texas right now. The Democrats know they have no case. T…