Of course portrayal of it will be through the jaundiced eye of the press
Isn’t it interesting what a difference 24 years makes in politics? Or, more accurately, what a difference as to how actions of Democrats are perceived by the liberal media compared to the same kind of actions taken by Republicans.
In 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was forced to resign because of the firing of 8 US attorneys who had been appointed by the previous Clinton administration with Democrats and media uproariously claiming it was because of “politics”!
Yet, in 1993, incoming AG Janet Reno fired all 93 Reagan/GHW Bush appointed US attorneys. Typically, protests from the GOP were readily dismissed by Dems and the media.
How do you think the firing of Obama-appointed US attorneys by incoming AG Jeff Sessions will be viewed?
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WASHINGTON (CNN) March 14, 2007 — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday “mistakes were made” regarding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and he accepts responsibility for the ordeal.
Gonzales said the lawyers should have been told why they were being fired and admitted the explanations initially given to Congress about the matter were “incomplete.”
“As we can all imagine, in an organization of 110,000 people, I am not aware of every bit of information that passes through the halls of justice, nor am I aware of all decisions,” he said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
“That is a sorry excuse,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said minutes later on the Senate floor.
Schumer said Gonzales should resign.
“Did the attorney general not know that eight U.S. attorneys were to be fired?” Schumer said. “If he didn’t know, he shouldn’t be attorney general, plain and simple. … The buck stops with the attorney general.”
No, it stops with the president at the time ,and on that score, once again proving Schumer is one of the most disgusting people in politics we remind readers of the following, via History Commons (by the way, nowhere in the CNN article did this bit of history appear):
–— Mar., 1993: “Attorney General Janet Reno announces that all 93 US Attorneys must resign promptly, allowing the Clinton administration to appoint its own prosecutors for the positions. All 93 US Attorneys are Republicans appointed during the Reagan and Bush administrations, and US Attorneys are routinely replaced after a change in administrations…” Related link here.
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Wonder what Alberto thinks about all this??
AP seems appalled that Trump and Sessions would be “so unprofessional”
— “Tim Purdon, a former U.S. attorney for North Dakota in the Obama administration, recalled that Obama permitted Bush appointees to remain on until their successors had been appointed and confirmed.
“The way the Obama administration handled it was appropriate and respectful and classy,” Purdon said. “This saddens me because many of these people are great public servants and now they are being asked to leave.”
—- ” Montana’s U.S. Attorney Mike Cotter said he received a phone call from Boente telling him “the president has directed this.”
“I think it’s very unprofessional and I’m very disappointed,” he said. “What happened today on Friday, March 10, that was so important that all Obama appointees who are U.S. attorneys need to be gone?” (Note: Now who do you think appointed the “disappointed” Mr. Cotter?)
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