The Pendragon's Hall

Ann Coulter hit the nail on the head this week. The Pendragon has been ignoring the hooplah over Bush's firing of several US attorneys because as always it is overplayed. But the fact of the matter is, Presidents are political creatures and them acting in a political sense is by no means illegal. US attorneys serve at the behest of the President and may be dismissed at his pleasure as well. I would think the Democrats would want to bolster this tradition on the off-chance they win the White House next year. Plus, it is also worthwhile asking what happened to Republican staffers when the Democrats took over Congress? I'd be willing to bet some of them were fired for being Republicans. And when Clinton came to office in 1993 he fired a whole slew of White House staff who'd worked there for years so he could replace them with his own hippy-go-free-free fruitcakes. What was that if not political patronage for his workers. It's true: in Washington being a Republican is now a federal offense, while being a Democrat excuses everything.