And Karl Rove popped up.
The chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party was quoted Saturday as saying he urged presidential adviser Karl Rove and one of his assistants to fire the state’s U.S. attorney.
McClatchy Newspapers reported that Allen Weh said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove, asking that he be removed, and followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.
“Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?” Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event.
From the same article: “There’s nothing we’ve done that’s wrong,” Weh told the papers. “It wasn’t that Iglesias wasn’t looking out for Republicans. He just wasn’t doing his job, period.”
Too bad they didn’t put that in writing. In fact Iglesias’ evaluation in the summer of 2006 was a positive review. No intimation of anything wrong, no slacking off on pace. If anything he had improved the office and was steadily pursuing more cases. Just not the Right cases.
Really, if you give someone a positive review less than six months before you fire him for not doing his job, you’re just being dumb. There’s a lie in there somewhere, and it doesn’t look like Iglesias is lying.
K
I believe that interfering in the legal autonomy of judges and independent prosecutors, specifically, making them dependent on the federal authority for their continued employment was one of our primary grievances against the King of England in 1776.
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Thomas–
Don’t you see? We’ve finally got our own home-grown king, not some Commie foreigner. And ours hates liberals even more than George III did!
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Do you think the Dems will have the stomach to impeach AG?
We really shouldn’t be surprised.
1) It’s ALL about politics
2) They think we’re stupid
3) IOKIYAR.
No, there’s no indication that Weh is trying to keep his story straight so as to keep his political masters’ hands clean.
None at all.
The hated and treasonous New York Times manages to get it right for a change.
AG Gonzales should resign.
(or possibly be “fired” for “poor performance”. Heh.)
Off-topic, Richard Jeni died, and while I don’t know too much about him, I do think he read Geoffrey Nunberg’s “Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhw8DFSGzvg
Jeni’s definitions:
far right: money-grubbing, greenhouse-gassing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, bible-thumping, missile-firing,
right-to-lifin, lethal-injection hypocrites
far left: bong-smoking, america-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites
centrists, middle, moderates: flip-flopping, fence-sitting, half-in, half-out, half-assed, non-voting-so-they-can-bitch-no-matter-who-wins
That is really sad.He was a truly funny man.
“Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?” Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event.
Every American who’s not one of the 30-percenters has been asking the same question about Karl Rove for some time now.
Not that any ‘Publican would have the manhood to admit to trying to obstruct justice, but theoretically this is all that is needed to subpoena Rove and put his lying arse under oath.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elayne-boosler/remembering-comedian-rich_b_43155.html
Elayne Boosler remembers Richard Jeni –
On religious wars, “You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend.”
Mike: Stop with the macho posturing. The Clinton regime fired every AG in the country.
End of story.
I know this will be a difficult concept to grasp, but I wonder if you can understand why that would be better. If every AG were fired it would obviously be without regard to party affiliation. In this case specific attorneys general are being targeted because they didn’t kowtow to RNC demands for accelerated prosecution of Democrats. Using the Dept. of Justice and the office of the Attorney General as a means to generate political attack ads is, um, bad.
I see, Rheinhard, firing them all is better than firing some.
You don’t why they were fired, but you can be sure that the Clinton regime had only the purest motives.
Riiiiight….
Frank, how is the project progressing?
Frank_D said…
He and I have begun to work on a big project with a techie friend of mine.
It could be a total dud, or it could be as revolutionary as the advent of the PC.
Hey Oliver! Did you fix your feed and finally get the image posted so that it no longers spews a page of blankness?
THANK YOU!
fd, just when did Clinton do all of this mass firing? Was it at the beginning of his term or terms? Was it randomly throughout his terms? Was it 1/2way through his term?
What Clinton did was at the beginning of his first term he asked for the resignations of all U.S. Attorneys and then replaced the Republican appointees with Democrats. In fairness, I believe it is typical for all presidents to request such mass resignations of holdover appointees.
The eight USAs who were fired last year WERE Bush appointees. They were canned because they wouldn’t use their office for partisan gain.
Five of the eight would have gone quietly into the night if AG Gonzo’s office didn’t also slam the USAs publicly.
There’s a difference between appointing along party affiliation, and appointing along party affiliation AND then firing because they weren’t partisan enough.
Or maybe we’re all safer from terr’sts with a Rove crony stepping up to take over a USA spot from an attorney with a 97% job performance rating…
Nobody has yet to explain how this is a ’scandal’ when the President can fire these USA’s for whatever reason he wants.
If he thinks they wear cheap suits, he can fire them. If he thinks they pick their nose too much, he can fire them. If he doesn’t like their choice of sports teams, he can fire them. It just doesn’t matter.
If Whitewater was a scandal, this is a scandal.
You’re right though, nobody has yet to explain how this qualifies. Lots of people have. Jimmmm, for one, right above you.
Ol’ Nothintoseehere Jay at it again.
I can see how firing public officials because they choose to serve the public and not the partisan dictates of the Republican party certainly wouldn’t qualify as a scandal in Jay’s extremist mind.
If Whitewater was a scandal, this is a scandal.
People were convicted of crimes in Whitewater Sir Charles.
You’re right though, nobody has yet to explain how this qualifies. Lots of people have. Jimmmm, for one, right above you.
Actually Jimmmm Cricket didn’t. Considering as I said that the President can fire USa’s for whatever he reason he chooses, it doesn’t qualify.
He talks about politics. So?
Do you think the 90+ attorneys Clinton canned in 1993 were booted because they were doing poor jobs? No. They were bounced for political reasons – namely that a Democratic administration was taking over and wanted to appoint their own cronies.
Yet, that’s not scandalous, but this is? Explain how that makes sense please.
I think Jay is intentionally playing dumb. There are crimes being committed that aren’t being investigated by partisan attorneys. Also, there are crimes that aren’t being committed that are being investigated. And the reasons? Partisan politics. THat makes for scandal.
There are crimes being committed that aren’t being investigated by partisan attorneys. Also, there are crimes that aren’t being committed that are being investigated.
Name them.
Specifically.
Let’s see we had Christie subpeonas Menendez just before the election.
Iglesias being pressured to investigate Democratic voter fraud.
McKay in Washington fired for not chasing supposed voter fraud in the Governor’s race.
Colantuano in New Hampshire dragging his feet on phone jamming.
Black being removed from the Marianas and Abramoff investigation.
There’s a few for you MR NothingtoseeHere.
Serving the Master and not the Public is job qualification #1 for the Bush Administration.
And for the record, the next president will probably fire (or ask to resign) every US attorney appointed by Bush. Just as all the Clinton appointees resigned and all the Bush Sr. appointees were asked to resign and so on. New administrations typically replace the US attorneys with their own appointees.
What is different is Bush firing his own appointees for non performance related causes and replacing them with cronies, many of whom have little prosecuting experience and most having no ties to the communities they are going to *ahem* serve. Also, it is likely most will not face confirmation. No scandal here.
Are we going to get to see Rove “Frog-Marched” out of the White House THIS time?
Cause we missed it that last few times you claimed it was going to occur…
Donald.
Rumsfeld.
et’s see we had Christie subpeonas Menendez just before the election.
So Christie subpoenaed documents in the course of an investigation. Wow. That never happens.
Iglesias being pressured to investigate Democratic voter fraud.
I know. A phone call is now ‘pressure.’ GMAFB.
McKay in Washington fired for not chasing supposed voter fraud in the Governor’s race.
You have no evidence whatsoever that this is this case. Pure conjecture on your part.
Colantuano in New Hampshire dragging his feet on phone jamming.
Oh I guess a felony conviction in the case is “dragging his feet.”
So you’ve answered nothing about the charges you presented which was:
There are crimes being committed that aren’t being investigated by partisan attorneys. Also, there are crimes that aren’t being committed that are being investigated.
And for the record, the next president will probably fire (or ask to resign) every US attorney appointed by Bush. Just as all the Clinton appointees resigned and all the Bush Sr. appointees were asked to resign and so on. New administrations typically replace the US attorneys with their own appointees.
Yeah. Exactly. For partisan political purposes. If it was simply about job performance, many US attorneys would not lose their jobs.
This is nothing more than just another made up scandal. Democrats and liberals have engaged in their typical displays moral outrage and the press lapped it up.
Wow, Jay sure shows his ignorance.
Christie issued subpeonas on a ridiculous investigation just before the election, an investigation that has since disappeared from radar.
Iglesias was pressured. By more than one Republican and removed from office.
McKay, same thing, pressured to start an investigation, fired after not doing so.
Colantuano in New Hampshire waited almost a year before opening the investigation and delayed prosecution until after the next election.
I can see how Jay, an avid Bush supporter would not find this to be a scandal. After all, serving the Master and not the Public is job qualification #1 for the Bush Administration.
Jay is the sort who would say there was no scandal when Nixon fired the special prosecutor AND the attorney general when the Watergate investigation started to heat up.
No, nothing fishy there… he was their boss, after all.
But those Clinton travel-office firings… now there’s a scandal!
Super-tool!
Or maybe no gun at all….
At no time were names added or subtracted by the White House,” Perino said. “We continue to believe that the decision to remove and replace U.S. attorneys who serve at the pleasure of the president was perfectly appropriate and within administration’s discretion. We stand by the Department of Justice’s assertion that they were removed for performance and managerial reasons.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_go_co/congress_prosecutors
See Jay02C, you should learn from Pedo. He simply demolishes the whole scandal by going straight to the source! When a Wight House Spokeswoman says there is nothing to see, there is nothing to see here at all. Now if he’ll just confirm it with a Rush Limbaugh quote we can all move on.