Shorter Right-Wing Blogosphere

"Rotation in office is the same as firing people for refusing to use their power to shield Republicans and indict Democrats."

Lemme 'splain. No, let Kyle Sampson 'splain, after all, he's the one that orchestrated this purge:

...once confirmed by the Senate and appointed,U.S. Attorneys serve for four years and then holdover indefinitely (at the pleasure of the President, of course). In recent memory, during the Reagan and Clinton Administrations, Presidents Reagan and Clinton did not seek to remove and replace the U.S. Attorneys they had appointed whose terms had expired, but instead permitted those U.S. Attorneys to serve indefinitely under the holdover provision. (Underscoring in original.)

Clinton removed all the US Attorneys and replaced them with his own because that's kind of what you do when you're the President. He didn't keep on Dick Cheney as Secretary of Defense either. And I might add, Clinton got Senate confirmation for each and every one of those prosecutors.

Removing all of the attorneys at the close of the first term would have been unprecedented, but fine. Writing up an enemies list, and picking off those attorneys who aren't sufficiently perverting justice by using their offices as an arm of the Republican Party, that's a whole other kettle of fish.

(Incidentally, good for Jay Carney for admitting that he was completely wrong about this scandal from the beginning and that the blogosphere "was the engine on this story." Unlike the pundit class in Washington, we don't give the team who has systematically trashed the Constitution and destroyed any sense of justice and fairness in the political system the benefit of the doubt)