282RA, you're correct that the fired attorneys issue is relatively insignificant when compared with the major blunders of the Bush administration. But let us not forget that Al Capone was put away for income tax evasion, not murder. If it takes the relatively minor issue of a few fired attorneys to convince a few thousand wheat farmers in Iowa that Bush is an arrogant SOB who thinks he's above the law, so be it. The Emperor's new clothes are becoming easier to see through and this issue is adding to their transparency.

Also, most executive actions can be defended as policy decisions. If a President has a choice to respond to a given situation by doing either A or B, and he chooses to do A which proves, a couple of years later, to have been a poor choice, he's guilty of a bad policy decision. But the firing of those eight US Attorneys cannot be seen as simply a bad policy decision. They were fired for the specific purpose of stifling ongoing or pending criminal investigations. That's not policymaking, it's obstruction of justice.