Well the prosecutors are political appointees, and serve at the pleasure of the president, you know like rumsfeld did.  Most things I’ve seen was that they were not following with the administrations policies in prosecuting the law.  So they were fired, like rumsfeld should have been, but he was following administration policy.  I haven’t heard of any of them being right in the middle of any major investigations before being let go.  That is a precedent you know for the attorney replacements.  And that is something left out by those deranged at Bush, when pointing out how Clinton had Reno fire all of them.  Several were right in the middle of investigations, any guesses on which political group they were looking into on actual crimes?

This really is a scandal without anything scandalous besides the administration again screwing up in PR.  And now the dems are hoping to pull another ‘Scooter’ out of this.  That’s getting people to talk under oath, and having them remember things differently.  You decide one is telling the truth and the other lied about events so you put them on trial for perjury.  And you wonder why Gonzales’ aid would want to take the 5th in that witch hunt.

I’m pretty much avoiding that whole side of it.  There’s nothing to be gained by trying to prove that the Administration went after these 8 for not being loyalists - even if they did exactly that, it;s not illegal or even unprecedented.  Sleazy?  Yeah.  But it sounds a lot like inside the beltway politics to me.

But the porn angle caught my attention - firing a couple of them because they don’t support Gonzalez’ obsession with eradicating porn indicates a heavy Far Christian Right influence in decisions that should be, at the very worst, political.  To make them based on some Christian ideal of a morality that has never existed in all of humanity is scary to me.

People fuck, and people like to watch people fuck, and if you don’t, then don’t watch it.  End of discussion.

I totally agree the president can fire who he wants, when he wants for any reason he wants. Its his party, and if he don’t want you at it, Austa baby!

The problem is we need a new description for our (and by “our” i mean most of us who sound off here on Jim’s site) political position. Not liberal, for god’s sake, and not conservative either. Libertarian doesn’t quite cut it for me cause they are kinda anti-religion. The whole notion of “South Park Conservatives” ie strong on Defense, small government, low taxes, while keeping the government out of our personal lives is one I embrace. But does it have a name?

Not really...I’ve been kicking around the idea of trying to start a website based around the idea that we - those of us that are fairly hawkish, would like to see less federal government yet are socially liberal in many ways - are neither red nor blue, but rather purple.

A group blog maybe?  Anyone have any interest in perhaps trying to do something like that, where we would focus on libertarian-esque, purple-party issues?

Yeah but its even the president’s policy of being fairly anti-porn so even if you don’t agree its still in his policy and he still has the right and legitimacy to fire them, no matter how wrong he is.  He can keep his hands off my porn too.

And just to keep with religious right nutty people out there, do you remember the Virgin mary bleeding out her ass episode of south park that some catholic group got pulled?  Well they just re-aired it, so take that people with no sense of humor.

I dunno, I’d definitely like to be involved, but I’m not exactly good as a public face, am I? Heh. I’ll probably just be a reader/commenter again.

The problem is we need a new description for our (and by “our” i mean most of us who sound off here on Jim’s site) political position. Not liberal, for god’s sake, and not conservative either.

Actually, I’d love to relclaim the term liberal, because today’s liberals are anything but.  And they’re starting to shun it for “progressive”, so there’s an opening.

A group blog maybe?  Anyone have any interest in perhaps trying to do something like that, where we would focus on libertarian-esque, purple-party issues?

Sign me up.

A group blog maybe?  Anyone have any interest in perhaps trying to do something like that, where we would focus on libertarian-esque, purple-party issues?

I think this is a great idea personally. I could definitely help get the word out once the site is up and running. I post on/browse on plenty of forums who might find such a site intriguing

I’d be glad to participate. I especially like the keeping of government out of our personal lives, as one might expect.

I’d love to relclaim the term liberal, because today’s liberals are anything but.  And they’re starting to shun it for “progressive”, so there’s an opening

UGH the term “Progressive” makes my head hurt. It seems that if your not one of them, your against progress and want to go back to olden times. 

Although I do like that idea, but Liberal has been tainted by their attitudes and actions. But I’m all for the Purple Party.  But it sounds kinda like we want Prince to be Prez..

I think that would be a good idea, Jim.

You might want to stay away from purple though.  People might say that you’re a wee bit lavender.

It seems that if your not one of them, your against progress and want to go back to olden times.

Well, hell, they’ve already got Democratic, to make it seem like if you’re not one of them, you had democracy.

“Hate”, even.