Specter averred that the President may "discharge a U.S. attorney for no reason, but they cannot be discharged for a bad reason."Whatever that means. Here's a lesson for the White House: next time don't try to be solicitous and please everybody with documents dumps and contradictory statements. Fire them and be done with it.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Sunday morning recap - I was away all weekend, but Mark Kilmer has a review of the Sunday chatfests. Apparently the only issue of concern facing the country is whether eight U.S. attorneys should have been fired. This debate is so muddled that it leads to moronic statements like this from Arlen Specter:
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The White House brought this on themselves. Because their kneejerk reaction to virtually any political question is to belittle, cover up, and lie. If Bush were more than a cardboard tough guy, he's follow your advice-- "fire them and be done with it." But that would be the grown-up, confident, above-board way of handling it. And how often has this administration gone that route, for anything?
"Waaaaahhh! Political appointees were fired for political motives, but suddenly there's a political reaction, and a possible political price to be paid! No fair!!! Muddled debate!!"
I can't disagree with most of that. As the National Review recently wrote: "Doesn't anybody know how to play this game?"
That might be a baseball reference.
It's a quote attributed to Casey Stengel, and supposedly uttered during the Met's disastrous inaugural season:
http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Anybody-Here-Play-This/dp/1566634881
Casey Stengel was fired by the Yankees after losing Game Seven of the 1960 World Series. He served at the General Manager's pleasure.
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