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Report: Top Bush aides ducked queries on prosecutor firings

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  • Posted By: jandmamck @ 01/30/2009 12:28:48 PM

    Just contemplating the why of Presidenty Clinton's firing of ALL the US Attorneys during his reign. I understand these fifireings were many many more than President Bush's action. Why did he do it? Why was he not investigated?
    Am I missing something something here?

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:35:02 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:42:05 PM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: n83nbu @ 10/08/2008 5:51:52 AM

    BUSH AND HIS ILK HAVE OPERATED OUTSIDE THE LAW since day one of Bush???s highly disputed selection as president. From intimidating and firing U.S. attorneys, outing a CIA agent, to spying on and torturing U.S. citizens, this man and his cabal have been a disgrace and a menace to the U.S. It's time we just say no to his kind, and that includes his ardent GOP supporter, John McCain, and reinvent the great country we once were before this miscreant finagled his way into the presidency of our great country.

  • Posted By: Nohbdy @ 10/07/2008 6:57:57 PM

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27053223/ - A nice, refreshing, and unbiased look at what actually happened. Nobody's ducking any more than usual. If memory serves, George Washington stated that political factions would be the poison of this system. I can see why.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 6:01:06 PM

    The Antichrist!:
    When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.

    And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.

    America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.

    Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.

    When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.

    Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 8:25:12 PM

    he ACORN does not fall from the tree:
    http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 12:58:05 AM

    This is one of the few Democrats that I am proud of!:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5ekEuGyvk

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 8:53:42 PM

    Day 5 of stealing Ohio's election!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3130656&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 3:01:43 PM

    EVEN MORE ON THE VOTER FRAUD THAT IS GOING ON IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3129737&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
    DON'T SAY THAT I NEVER WARNED OF OBAMA'S NEFARIOUS CAMPAIGN!

    • Posted By: thomasdj @ 10/03/2008 7:46:22 PM

      Oh Krohn, idiot-creep. Retreat to your hole in the ground. Now. Before I put some rat traps out for you.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 1:00:51 AM

    You may not like Bill, but sometimes you have to love him!
    http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html

  • Posted By: thomasdj @ 10/01/2008 7:30:24 AM

    You republicans can't be quite that stupid. This is President Bush's own attorney general appointing a special prosecutor. Whatcha afraid of jimbo? In a few short months, out will finally go the worst president in the nation's history, presiding over two of the nation's all-time worst crises, one military and now one economic. Thanks distinguished republicans. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out. Fools.

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 10/02/2008 1:28:51 AM

      And if The Messiah gets elected (God forbid) and fires most or all of the US attornies at the DOJ, then that will be OK with you, correct? And I assume it was peachy keen with you when Clinton did it, no?

      You are the hypocritical fool

      • Posted By: thomasdj @ 10/02/2008 4:27:15 AM

        jimbo, are you somehow impervious to facts? Why don't you let facts shape your position, rather than letting your ideology shape (and twist) your "facts"?!! I repeat, your own Attorney General has determined that principals in this pathetic play have been stonewalling and thumbing their nose at subpoenas (whatever happened to the republicans respect for "rule of law"?), and has therefore determined that a special prosecutor is necessary to ensure that they are accountable to the people they serve -- this is a democracy after all, right jimbo?

        Mismanagement of a war. Mismanagement of the economy. Hmmm. Failure on the two signature issues of republicans. No wonder you're acting like a bunch of cornered rats!! This has been the most disastrous administration in the distinguished and illustrious history of the United States of America.

        • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 10/02/2008 8:40:08 PM

          I noticed that you, of course, did not answer my question. The US attorneys are all political appointees and can be replaced at any time, and for any reason. You have a sickening double-standard at work in this regard.

          Your partisan foolishness has destroyed any judgement you once had,

          • Posted By: thomasdj @ 10/02/2008 11:33:30 PM

            jimbo, are you capable of nuanced thinking? Everyone knows that presidents have authority to fire and have done so. However, this situation is quite different. Attorney Yglesias was being pressured to pursue cases in his state of voter fraud, against perceived democratic opponents. When Attorney Yglesias investigated and found insufficient evidence to bring charges, he was fired. That makes this situation quite unique in that the positions were politicized. Are you capable of seeing how firing an attorney for essentially doing his job just because he wouldn't pursue a hatchet job against political opponents is an abuse of power? Is there anything potentially wrong to you with this is your pea brain? For the third time I repeat: your own Attorney General has determined that there's enough there to warrant an a special prosecutor. Is your side going to obey the law or continue to behave as if it's above it?

    • Posted By: Braes @ 10/02/2008 12:03:25 PM

      Yeah, they are that stupid.

      • Posted By: bitterblogger @ 10/02/2008 10:05:01 PM

        Hey, Thomas, don't forget a third debacle--Katrina.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/02/2008 2:08:10 PM

    More on the voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3128354&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: cvaldes1967 @ 09/30/2008 1:25:14 PM

    People, 8 years of corruption and all you can say is that it's Obama's fault... Stupid people.. You deserve each other... Stupid hicks.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 10/02/2008 12:04:12 PM

      Not all of the Hicks, all of the time. I am done with them.

  • Posted By: Braes @ 10/02/2008 12:03:00 PM

    7 years of Obstruction of Justice. Torture, Gulags, False Terror Alerts, Oil-boy rules and Cheney/ENRON ethics.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/02/2008 7:14:19 AM

    The only way the bailout could work for tax payers is if the assets are purchased at a bargain rate. The current market rate if very low: maybe 20 cents on the dollar. If the treasury overpay, then I would question the sincerity of the deal.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:28:48 PM

    voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3126975&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:03:29 PM

    Obama's dirtiest, darkest secret!:
    http://larrysinclair.org/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 8:53:09 PM

    A man of great wisdom:
    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/manningreport.html

  • Posted By: Cynicus @ 09/29/2008 6:51:58 PM

    What I don't understand is why this is an issue. Janet Reno fired 90 plus (all) of Bush Sr. U.S. attorneys shortly after Clinton took office. It is understood they would be replaced since they serve a four year term at the convenience of the president who appoints them. To me this reads that it was well within Bushs rights to dump the ones from the Clinton administration (just like Reno did) and appoint 90 of his own to serve as HIS U.S. attorneys. Or is this different.

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 09/30/2008 9:16:44 PM

      It is only an issue this time because it is a baseless political attack by the Democrats on the Republicans - aided and abetted, as usual, by the MSM.

      Sad but true, and it is no more complicated than that.

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