On 08/28/2007 07:13 PM, in article
[email protected], "Tom
Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
> "Steven L. Sheffield" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:C2F8EDE1.61EC1%[email protected]...
>> On 08/27/2007 07:27 PM, in article [email protected],
>> "Tom
>> Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Steven L. Sheffield" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:C2F8D394.61E9F%[email protected]...
>>>>
>>>> It's HIGHLY unusual for a sitting President to target their OWN
>>>> appointees
>>>> for dismissal in the middle of a second term ...
>>>
>>> Actually no it isn't. What's more, perhaps you can tell us why it would
>>> be
>>> an issue?
>>
>> In an e-mail to Harriet Miers on Jan. 9, Attorney General Alberto
>> Gonzales¹s
>> chief of staff Kyle Sampson (who has since resigned) admitted that the
>> Clinton administration never purged its U.S. attorneys in the middle of
>> their terms, explicitly stating, "In recent memory, during the Reagan and
>> Clinton Administrations, Presidents Reagan and Clinton did not seek to
>> remove and replace U.S. Attorneys they had appointed ... but instead
>> permitted such U.S. Attorneys to serve indefinitely under the holdover
>> provision."
>
> So what you're saying is that left field is just like right field but the
> colors are different?
>
I'm saying that both fields cleared out the US Attorney's offices at the
beginning of the first terms after a party change in the White House ...
Reagan cleared out Carter's, Clinton cleared out Reagan/Bush's, and Shrub
cleared out Clinton's.
I'm also saying, and Alberto Gonzales' chief-of-staff agrees, that mid-term
replacements of attorneys by a sitting president is extremely unusual;
Reagan didn't do it; Bush-the-elder didn't do it; and Clinton didn't do it
.... yet Bush-the-idiot did do it, and for purely political reasons, since
despite the fact that he appointed them, and that they had outstanding
performance reviews, the 9 that were fired had some capability for
independent thought.
--
Steven L. Sheffield
stevens at veloworks dot com
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