David Iglesias
Carol Lam
John McKay
Kevin Ryan
Daniel Bogden
Margaret Chiara
Paul Charlton
Bud Cummins

These are some of the US Attorneys fired for purely partisan reasons even after receiving positive job reviews. Cummins was the one fired just to give Rove’s aide his office. We should insist to our senators that these names should be the only ones up for the AG position, simply so that whoever earns the job can, once confirmed, sit down across the table from Dubya and shout “HA HA” at him.

OldCoastie @ 6

Fran Townsend mentioned on MSNBC as a replacement.

For Gonzo or Joe Scarborough?

Tucker, too, needs to go back to journalism school. Put Alison Stewart in for Tucker, replace Scarborough with Shuster, and MSNBC steals the night away from CNN, Fox and CBS.

I know it will never happen, but a girl can dream, can’t she?

@ 45

James Comey for AG

not good enough. independent means someone who has never worked with or in the bush administration.

an outsider is needed.

Agreed and amen. If Bush nominated Comey or Fitzgerald, that would make me a little more than suspicious anyway.

dalloway @ 134

Could the deal have been this? Congressional Repubs will continue to back Shrub on Iraq in exchange for the resignations of Gonzo and Rove. Then they get to campaign on how the Dems forced them out because of “politics,” thus deflecting the “Republicans are a swamp of corruption” attack.

Uh… kind of hard to see how that one works with all of the corrupt Republicans still in office.

Plus, many of the Republicans wanted Gonzo out, so he could be a scapegoat. The only way this hypothetical “deal” would work is if it’s between the Republicans in Congress and Bush, with the Democrats not involved whatsoever. I just don’t see Bush making that deal with the goopers in congress. He wanted to keep Gonzales no matter what. He doesn’t like having his hand forced. My thought is that something very, very rancid was coming to the surface. That is the only reason I can see that both Rove and Gonzo stepped down in quick fashion – especially now, at the Katrina anniversary and the so-called Petraeus report coming out – it is to distract from something very nasty that is going to come out.

Little guys go to trial, to jail etc. These guys move on to cushy lobby shops.

Our system is majorly broken.

Accountability is looking at the past and paying the piper in the present.

Could the deal have been this? Congressional Repubs will continue to back Shrub on Iraq in exchange for the resignations of Gonzo and Rove. Then they get to campaign on how the Dems forced them out because of “politics,” thus deflecting the “Republicans are a swamp of corruption” attack.

Uh… kind of hard to see how that one works with all of the corrupt Republicans still in office.

Rumor has it that Leahy cut a deal at the WH and Chertoff will get the nod. See Mimikatz’ post at The Next Hurrah (and she cites Think Progress). I don’t have a good feeling about any of this. We needed impeachment to get the evidence and once again Congressional Dems seem to have fumbled the ball. But, in all fairness, I should stop gnashing my teeth long enough to see what actually comes next…

Why would Leahy do that? Leahy is in the driver’s seat. He doesn’t need to make big concessions. The congressional investigations have been fruitful, and the vast majority of the public is on the side of the investigations. The public doesn’t like the fact that the WH is ignoring the subpoenas. People know the WH has been hiding a lot.

Perhaps I’m just living in a fantasy world, and I have too much faith in Leahy. I just can’t see why he’d cut a deal to let Gonzales off the hook, when he already is reeling him out of the water.

I at least like that Joe Scarborough is calling Abu for the big idiot he is…

Scarborough’s a bellweather; FWIW, his disgust and frustration with Bu$hCo has closely tracked changing views among some of my Rep. friends.

I’d recommend this link at the ABA, a speech by incoming Am Bar Assn chair: New ABA President William H. Neukom: Insulate U.S. Attorneys from Improper Partisan Politics, placed online Aug 15, 2007.

http://www.abavideonews.org/AB…..amp;type=v

(FWIW: Neukom spent 17 years at Microsoft, including Executive Vice President of Law and Corporate Affairs at Microsoft.)

I think that FDLers would find this video quite heartening. Here’s hoping the ABA insists that Congress clean up the disastrous mess in DC. If you want to brighten your day, watch this exemplary discussion of the importance of justice, and its implications for the US, as well as the world.