It's a Crime

The ability of the Bush Administration to frame an issue is beyond reproach. All politics aside for a moment, this is truly a skill honed to a fine edge by its practitioners both inside and outside the White House. If there were not so much at stake, it could even be called a marvel. In my mind, it's certainly something the historians will cite as a hallmark of these eight years...long after we're all gone.
The current uproar over the firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys has been countered with three standard answers from the right wing, each designed to reframe the argument:
-- Those are political appointments--they serve at the 'pleasure of the President'
-- Thus, no law was broken
-- Clinton did it too
(Yes, that last one is pretty much a standard response to anything, and a proven winner in that it never fails to distract the media).
However, the real issue has nothing to do with politics. The point is not what Bush did--but why he did it. And when you fire a U.S. Attorney for refusing to pursue political opponents on charges he does not think are justified...or when you fire another for pursuing charges against political cronies who she does think warrant presecution...that's called obstruction of justice.
And it's a crime.

diderot