All of the US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. He can fire them all, just like Clinton did. DOH!

Let me say this in plain English for those without the wherewithal to comprehend the situation.

THIS IS NOT AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE!”

Comment by con10tious — April 30, 2007 @ 11:39 pm

Well, if Bill Clinton had fired all the US attorneys, investigators, and Ken Starr during the goose chase that was Whitewater and Lewinsky, would you have been so sanguine? Would you have supported his actions and reaffirmed his right to fire all the people who “serve at his pleasure”??? Bet not.

Let’s assume it’s not (it is, but let’s just assume it isn’t). Not being a legal scholar I am still qualified to point out that it is possible to impeach someone even if the majority of their offenses are not impeachable.

So let’s say the president has breakfast – this is not impeachable, an offense for certain to waste good food, but certainly not impeachable. Then over brunch he tells his aides to ensure Halliburton, or some other company he has close ties to gets sole-source contracting to profiteer from a war he started against international law after misusing, misenterpreting, and falsifying intelligence to the congress and the American people. This one is impeachable.

He then has lunch and tells his aides to fire any US attorneys who may be probing the sole-sourcing of said contract. He is obviously firing them to avoid investigations into his own behavior or that of close allies, but since they serve at the pleasure of the president let’s just say it’s not impeachable.

He could theoretically go an entire week only comitting offenses that were not impeachable, but still, due to our wacky legal system, he can be impeached and convicted for the one offense that was impeachable.

So let’s not worry so much about which offenses were impeachable. Today you can fill a library with books written on the subject of impeachable offenses this administration has committed, and essentially none of the facts in the books are even in dispute.

If we fail to end our military Kineseyanism and global imperialism program and root out the deep corruption in our government, the US will face financial collapse in the very near future. Republicans often claim to be fiscal conservatives, ironic that they would follow an obviously twisted and evil administration straight over the financial cliff in the name of world domination – oops I mean the war on terror.

Where will we ever find enough prison cells to hold ‘em all?

Gitmo

Yes, folks– remember the World Journalism Institute, of which Jack Kelley was a member? Its mission statement asks Christian journalists to “report Biblically, not objectively”. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for crying out loud. He got away with ‘lying for the glory of God’ for years.

REPEAL the MCA, Patriot Act, Bankruptcy Act, tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy

PASS legislation that sets a specific dollar limit $5 k maybe for recovery by federal employees who claim to have been wrongly fired, to be effective IMMEDIATELY

Once the WH changes hands in 2008, FIRE EM ALL. Give em their 5 grand and then embark on an effort to re-hire al lthe experienced, competent, career employees that have been forced out by these fifth rate hacks.

CLEAN SWEEP 2008

But that’s not what we’re talking about, DOH!

Weak little conservative runs and hides behind the nearest irrelevancy. Typical.
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Conservatives are weak, vindictive little people (but we already knew that).
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In a surprise move, Kurdish lawmakers have announced that they plan to oppose Iraq’s controversial US-backed oil law.

Back in February, the Kurds had agreed to support the draft law, which has been heavily criticised as giving too much control to foreign oil companies.

Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani had predicted the draft law would be approved by parliament in April, but it has yet to be debated.

Kurds hold 58 of the 275 parliament seats _ not enough to defeat the measure on their own. But Kurdish objections could delay passage of the bill, whose ratification has been strongly urged by the White House.

But Kurdish spokesman Khalid Saleh has said: “We are not going to support” the provisions in the bill. Some Sunni legislators have also raised now objections, saying the oil law would give foreign oil companies too much power.

So the draft oil law could be in for a tough time before it becomes law. They will be sweating in Houston.

http://www.priceofoil.org/

YEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

This administration is being run just like the well-oiled corporation the CEO-in-Chief envisioned.

Comment by con10tious — May 1, 2007 @ 12:03 am

Actually should read

President Bush is no competent President, war-time or otherwise. Hoping, wishing and / or dreaming it does not make it true.

Glad to be of service

Also

If you can point out any previous experiences of a mass-firing of US Attorneys halfway through a President’s second term, please do share

And why do the AG’s stories keep changing, and only after documents and e-mails are disclosed which show up the absurdity of Gonzales’ unbelievably faulty memory, if not because of outright criminality?

Maybe Tony Snow can explain for us what it is, since the only possible one I can think of is incredibly corrupt and despicable.