Presidential adviser Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican Party chairman to fire the state’s U.S. attorney because of dissatisfaction in part with his failure to indict Democrats in a voter fraud investigation in the battleground election state.
In an interview yesterday with McClatchy Newspapers, Allen Weh, the party chairman, said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed. Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.
“Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?” Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event that month.
“He’s gone,” Rove said, according to Weh.
Business as usual in the Republikan Party.
The issue isn’t replacing judges…the presidents have always done that. Only the TWIST you guys all seem to ignore is that with a small slip of wording in the Patriot Act, the new judge appointed doesn’t need Senate confirmation. So, Gonzales can put anyone he wants in, without the normal oversight. [pls use tinyurl]
In other words, WATCH Harriet Meiers show up as an appointed judge. There’s nothing to stop her, or Ronald McDonald, or even Good-Job Brownie from getting a judgeship.
The Patriot act was not for conditions such as this…it was for “if a judge was killed by a terrorist” specifically, but….heck, our AG doesn’t need to follow the stinking rules. Speedy Gonzales can do whatever he wants…… right?
And, as for the “Clinton did it”. Remember back to being a kid….point a finger at someone else is a ploy to avoid the real issue.
http://tinyurl.com/2bpv4f
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. A conservative think tank , well you can read the rest.
No Bias here folks so lets move on.
#32, but is he a jolly good senior fellow or just a regular senior fellow.
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“Hey, what does your Daddy do for a living?”
“He’s a fellow.”
“A fellow what? Traveler, patient, pilot, a fellow what?”
“A senior fellow.”
“Oh, he’s Mexican.”