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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
I think those attorneys deserved to be fired
By VictorM: Talk of the prosecutors' purge continues to dominate many liberal blogs. The consensus being that this was a rotten thing by a rotten administration, and damn it, they got caught. JuliaAnn has quite an interesting take. I really recommend that her post be read in its entirety, but here's the gist of it:On the heels of the unpopular surge, we now celebrate the unmasking of the purge, as if this will finally do it, this is the "too far" moment, camel's back meet straw. Frankly, I don't think so. There is a sickness in the land that overwhelms all of it for me. Let's start with this: I think those attorneys deserved to be fired.
Labels: prosecutors, purgegate
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Presented with a situation in which several U.S. attorneys are being dumped for patently political reasons, with threatening residuals to follow after a new crop of lockstep-marching loyalists are installed in their place, I think liberal and other bloggers are right to condemn what's going on and to demand answers and reforms.
This isn't about making mistreated heroes out of these erstwhile Bush appointees, albeit they seem to have earned good performance reports from their managers.
What it is about is beating back one more instance of White House corruption and anything-to-win political aggression. It's about demanding, at long last, some real accountability and consequences for the real sources of wrongdoing, and not just being tossed sacrificial underlings. It's about undoing Patriot Act damage. It's about making an ugly scene that might give pause to a future president who wants to politicize and exploit the Justice Department.
I don't think JuliaAnn gets all that. She seems to instead be heavily focused on individual personalities.
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This isn't about making mistreated heroes out of these erstwhile Bush appointees, albeit they seem to have earned good performance reports from their managers.
What it is about is beating back one more instance of White House corruption and anything-to-win political aggression. It's about demanding, at long last, some real accountability and consequences for the real sources of wrongdoing, and not just being tossed sacrificial underlings. It's about undoing Patriot Act damage. It's about making an ugly scene that might give pause to a future president who wants to politicize and exploit the Justice Department.
I don't think JuliaAnn gets all that. She seems to instead be heavily focused on individual personalities.
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