“at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”

“What do ya think Geo, Oxy or meth?”

“at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”

“at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President

Oh so who's bringing up Monica Lewinski now? LOL!”

“*snicker*”

“I thought he was bringing up Janet Reno.”

“OHHHHH...bacpac that was just WRONG on so many levels....

Remember when El Reno made the statement that she and Donna Shalala were going to tour the country in a minipick up and see the world...imagine being the poor hitchhiker picked up by them (LOL)?”

“at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

That's the mantra of the Bumbleya administration. Jon Stewart ran clips of a dozen or more administration flacks saying that. Hey, he's your boy. You oughta know what they're saying.

And XL-I812 certainly ought to remember it, because he's used in to excess. In fact, the Jon Stewart clip reminded me of ol XL.”

“No logic or ability to understand.
That's the mantra of the Geobeet.
LOL”

“The administration has to keep repeating it, cause the libbies are just too stupid to understand. Like me yelling at my kids, I suppose. If you keep repeating it, it will finally get thru to them that they are wrong. What part of that don't you understand? Just curious.

That's as opposed to the democrat policy of repeating a lie long enough and often enough and people think it's true.”

“The people that voted these people in last Nov. want to see 'checks and balances' and they'll get that, even if most of it is BS.”

“You guys crack me up.”

“Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) is a political epithet invented by American political columnist and former psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer in a satirical article to describe complaints raised against the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, and his administration, associates, affiliates and supporters, especially those who subscribe to conspiracy theories, or who allegedly oppose any initiative put forward by the Bush administration merely because Bush supports it. It is especially in use in the Blogosphere, and talk radio, as opposed to television commentary.

The term "Bush Derangement Syndrome" is usually applied as a derogatory term within the Blogosphere to imply that an opponent cannot be reasoned with or that complaints lack substance aside from anti-Bush hatred, due to the illogical connection to the charge.”

“Silly Dems and their foolish witchhunts....”

“

Why I Was Fired

_{By DAVID C. IGLESIAS
Published: March 21, 2007
Albuquerque}

WITH this week’s release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters.

Of course, as one of the eight, I’ve felt this way for some time. But now that the record is out there in black and white for the rest of the country to see, the argument that we were fired for “performance related” reasons (in the words of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty) is starting to look more than a little wobbly.

United States attorneys have a long history of being insulated from politics. Although we receive our appointments through the political process (I am a Republican who was recommended by Senator Pete Domenici), we are expected to be apolitical once we are in office. I will never forget John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, telling me during the summer of 2001 that politics should play no role during my tenure. I took that message to heart. Little did I know that I could be fired for not being political.

Politics entered my life with two phone calls that I received last fall, just before the November election. One came from Representative Heather Wilson and the other from Senator Domenici, both Republicans from my state, New Mexico.

Ms. Wilson asked me about sealed indictments pertaining to a politically charged corruption case widely reported in the news media involving local Democrats. Her question instantly put me on guard. Prosecutors may not legally talk about indictments, so I was evasive. Shortly after speaking to Ms. Wilson, I received a call from Senator Domenici at my home. The senator wanted to know whether I was going to file corruption charges — the cases Ms. Wilson had been asking about — before November. When I told him that I didn’t think so, he said, “I am very sorry to hear that,” and the line went dead.

A few weeks after those phone calls, my name was added to a list of United States attorneys who would be asked to resign — even though I had excellent office evaluations, the biggest political corruption prosecutions in New Mexico history, a record number of overall prosecutions and a 95 percent conviction rate. (In one of the documents released this week, I was deemed a “diverse up and comer” in 2004. Two years later I was asked to resign with no reasons given.)

When some of my fired colleagues — Daniel Bogden of Las Vegas; Paul Charlton of Phoenix; H. E. Cummins III of Little Rock, Ark.; Carol Lam of San Diego; and John McKay of Seattle — and I testified before Congress on March 6, a disturbing pattern began to emerge. Not only had we not been insulated from politics, we had apparently been singled out for political reasons. (Among the Justice Department’s released documents is one describing the office of Senator Domenici as being “happy as a clam” that I was fired.)

As this story has unfolded these last few weeks, much has been made of my decision to not prosecute alleged voter fraud in New Mexico. Without the benefit of reviewing evidence gleaned from F.B.I. investigative reports, party officials in my state have said that I should have begun a prosecution. What the critics, who don’t have any experience as prosecutors, have asserted is reprehensible — namely that I should have proceeded without having proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The public has a right to believe that prosecution decisions are made on legal, not political, grounds.

What’s more, their narrative has largely ignored that I was one of just two United States attorneys in the country to create a voter-fraud task force in 2004. Mine was bipartisan, and it included state and local law enforcement and election officials.

After reviewing more than 100 complaints of voter fraud, I felt there was one possible case that should be prosecuted federally. I worked with the F.B.I. and the Justice Department’s public integrity section. As much as I wanted to prosecute the case, I could not overcome evidentiary problems. The Justice Department and the F.B.I. did not disagree with my decision in the end not to prosecute.

Good has already come from this scandal. Yesterday, the Senate voted to overturn a 2006 provision in the Patriot Act that allows the attorney general to appoint indefinite interim United States attorneys. The attorney general’s chief of staff has resigned and been replaced by a respected career federal prosecutor, Chuck Rosenberg. The president and attorney general have admitted that “mistakes were made,” and Mr. Domenici and Ms. Wilson have publicly acknowledged calling me.

President Bush addressed this scandal yesterday. I appreciate his gratitude for my service — this marks the first time I have been thanked. But only a written retraction by the Justice Department setting the record straight regarding my performance would settle the issue for me.


David C. Iglesias was United States attorney for the District of New Mexico from October 2001 through last month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/opinion/21iglesias.html
last edited: 3/21/07 1:57:23 PM”

“Deranged........and strange.”

“Ok, if they were fired for political reason, so what? I don't know or care why they were fired. They could be fired because the had on an ugly tie. Again SO WHAT? It doesn't matter. Figure it out.

Separation of powers doesn't mean that congress gets to run the Executive Branch, it means President Bush does have to give in to them just cause they got their panties in a knot.
last edited: 3/21/07 2:03:29 PM”

“Yelling at the kids, huh?

No surprise.....”

“Its kinda the AT WILL work conditions...sorry dude you are gone.

Not like they had worked successfully through 4 administrations doing their jobs with frequent compliments (even roses from the a notoriously #&%!$y Co President which were hilariously take back only minutes later) and upon their firing they were trucked off site and unceremoniously DUMPED on the side of the road then had their reputations sullied all for a political hack to get their job.”

“Never yelled at your kids huh?”

“What am I hearing? It sounds like someone trying to hammer an old 33 1/3 vinyl LP into a CD slot.”

“You want our justice system to be politicized? Your chances of prosecution depend upon party affiliation/beliefs and what party happens to be in power?

You have to be kidding me, right?”

““You want our justice system to be politicized? Your chances of prosecution depend upon party affiliation/beliefs and what party happens to be in power?

You have to be kidding me, right?”
VioLiN
2:17:42 PM
3/21/07

Libby????
Where was Vile's tears then?
What a hypocrite.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!”

“What an a-hole.
LOLOLOLOL!”

““Never yelled at your kids huh?”
NoProb
3:08:32 PM
3/21/07

Not much at all.......I didn't have to.
They are all fine young men now who are my best friends.
And I've been married 25.5 years.
Good luck, Chuck!!”

“It's always been politicized. At least in my memory, Clinton fired 93 because they weren't his people. Where did you get the idea that it wasn't?”

“Oh don't be so hard on yourself Herr Vile.”

“LOL Vile shows himself to be the most Vile of hypocrites and that's all the little boy can come up with.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

MarkO is showing just how stupid he is again. But, what else is new.”

““Silly Dems and their foolish witchhunts....”
StoveStomper

“LOL Vile shows himself to be the most Vile of hypocrites and that's all the little boy can come up with.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

MarkO is showing just how stupid he is again. But, what else is new.”
StoveStomper

“No logic or ability to understand.
That's the mantra of the Geobeet.
LOL”
StoveStomper

Coming from the source - an engineer who lives on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and doesn't buy flood insurance - those are compliments. If you're a genius, I think we'll all agree we'd rather be stupid.

Jeez, follow your own advice and lighten up. It's funny, why ain't you laughing?

There, crack a smile. Give us a VBG and some LOLOLOLOLOL ...”

“"Give us a VBG and some LOLOLOLOLOL ..."

I'm have a shot of that Vodka, Bourbon and Gin..............Geo!”

“I think Stovie drank it all. Would you settle for byproduct of a bull???”

““You want our justice system to be politicized? Your chances of prosecution depend upon party affiliation/beliefs and what party happens to be in power?

You have to be kidding me, right?”

Then why do we never see you railing against the 9th circuit?”

“"Then why do we never see you railing against the 9th circuit?”
Nigal
8:14:17 PM
3/21/07

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals members are JUDGES appointed to sit on the bench for a period, possibly life.

The eight in question are FEDERAL PROSECUTORS.......oops, WERE.

Can anyone tell me the difference?
While all of these people are law school graduates, and lawyers, their jobs are different.
last edited: 3/21/07 8:10:55 PM”

“Poor bitter Geobeet.”

“Politics played a role in political appointments. Stunning revelation.

Uh, we are still talking about lawyers here aren't we? I haven't seen sympathy for lawyers like this since.... well, never.”

“I was pointing out Violin's displeasure with politicizing of judges. Yet he only seems to have a problem when the activist judges rule against his own political views.”

“That's called being a hypocrit, Nigal.”

“Hypocrite”

““Hypocrite”
MARKo
6:45:11 AM

Glad you agree, mArkO.”

“dictionary.com”

“LOL...it looks like the Democrat run congress will be the CONGRESS OF PORK AND INDICTMENTS.

You know for a crowd that rails about "Move-on" (granted that was for a rape case) you have never gotten out of the Watergate mentality.”

“It looks like the Dubya Regime is stuck in the Watergate Mentality alright.......secrecy and unethical behavior of an imperial presidency.”

“WHAHAHAAHAHAH...oh that was good...please tell me if you can who the members of the former Co-President's Health Care advisory board were???HMMMMMM????Oh wait that is not germain is it? Yeah she only WANTS to be president.”

“WASHINGTON — Six of the eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Justice Department ranked in the top third among their peers for the number of prosecutions filed last year, according to an analysis of federal records.

In addition, five of the eight were among the government's top performers in winning convictions.

The analysis undercuts Justice Department claims that the prosecutors were dismissed because of lackluster job performance.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070321/NEWS08/703210440”

“Serves at the pleasure............
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!”

“There's that wind-up doll again ...

at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President
at the pleasure of the President

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”

“So who's on the Gonzales Hit-By-A-Bus List?”

“Dance, Geo! Dance!
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!”

“Scratch one of you and the rest of you crabs start running around playing,'swing through the curlies'.”