>>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.<<

Bush is not going to be put away. We don't send presidents to prison. If he gets out of office without being impeached, he got away with it. No one will bother with him after that and it seems that's exactly what the democrats want--for Bush to make it through his term and leave and I say that it is UNACCEPTABLE!! Even if Cheney becomes president, so what? Talk about a lame duck. And with his health he'll sit one day as president. Bush needs to be impeached and cheney with him to send a message to future presidents that they are on a short leash.

>>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.<<

It won't convince them. They'll support no matter what he does. In their eyes it's just a liberal commie plot to destroy the greatest president we evwer had--one appointed by god. Consequently, I don't care what these people think and don't care to try and convince them of anything. They can go sulk in a corner and go join the Klan for all I care. We need to take care of some very unfinished business.

We can throw the rest of right wing agitators/true believers into the fire after we get rid of the head sonofabitch. We do need to purge this country but let's start at the top and work our way down.

>>The Emperor's new clothes are becoming easier to see through and this issue is adding to their transparency.<<

If you haven't seen that since at least 2004 then you're not going to start seeing it now. The very fact that bush is offering to let them testify in closed sessions without being under oath should outrage the public--he wants them to be able to lie without consequence--and yet, where's the outrage?

>>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.<<

Obstructing justice has been this adminstration's policy from day one and they're still in power. It's a waste of time. I hate Gonzalez but he's just a sad, stupid, pathetic Bush ass-kisser and I don't consider him worth the waste of energy it will take to oust him. We need to ousting someone else right now.