Comments on: Gonzales Made a Boo-Boo http://aldacron.net/blog/2007/03/14/gonzales-made-a-boo-boo/ Searching for reason in an unreasonable world. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:02:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Aldacron http://aldacron.net/blog/2007/03/14/gonzales-made-a-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Aldacron Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:32:22 +0000 http://aldacron.net/blog/2007/03/14/gonzales-made-a-boo-boo/#comment-256 <i>Does it matter to anyone that Bill Clinton personally dismissed 93 US attorneys shortly after taking office, and not a peep was made about it publically or in the press? It’s the president’s prerogative and part of his power to do so.</i> No, it doesn't matter. Nor did it matter when Bush did the same when he settled in for his first term. Nor did it matter when other presidents did so when they first took office. The issues with this particular set of dismissals come from how they were handled -- the attorneys were not given any reason for their dismissal, later, it was said that they were dismissed for performance reasons even though they all had good performance records, Gonzales did not fully disclose to Congress the circumstances surrounding the dismissals... This is not a partisan issue. People on both sides of the aisle are upset about it, and rightly so. Does it matter to anyone that Bill Clinton personally dismissed 93 US attorneys shortly after taking office, and not a peep was made about it publically or in the press? It’s the president’s prerogative and part of his power to do so.

No, it doesn’t matter. Nor did it matter when Bush did the same when he settled in for his first term. Nor did it matter when other presidents did so when they first took office.

The issues with this particular set of dismissals come from how they were handled — the attorneys were not given any reason for their dismissal, later, it was said that they were dismissed for performance reasons even though they all had good performance records, Gonzales did not fully disclose to Congress the circumstances surrounding the dismissals…

This is not a partisan issue. People on both sides of the aisle are upset about it, and rightly so.

]]> By: John Q http://aldacron.net/blog/2007/03/14/gonzales-made-a-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-257 John Q Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:48:58 +0000 http://aldacron.net/blog/2007/03/14/gonzales-made-a-boo-boo/#comment-257 Hmm, interesting. Does it matter to anyone that Bill Clinton personally dismissed 93 US attorneys shortly after taking office, and not a peep was made about it publically or in the press? It's the president's prerogative and part of his power to do so. Hmm, interesting. Does it matter to anyone that Bill Clinton personally dismissed 93 US attorneys shortly after taking office, and not a peep was made about it publically or in the press? It’s the president’s prerogative and part of his power to do so.

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