The blogosphere, the mainstream media, and now the Senate are all abuzz over the Bushites firing eight U.S. attorneys last year, apparently for political reasons. Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary Committee will probably subpoena Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to answer questions about the firings. But what they really should be asking about is not the eight attorneys who were fired, but the eighty-five who were not fired. What did they do that let them keep their jobs?
Take a look at the record for the last six years, what the U.S. attorneys have been up to. If you count up all their prosecutions for corruption and divide them by political party, you find a curious thing: 80% of those prosecuted were Democrats and 20% were Republicans. This is especially curious considering that the Democrats have been out of power and therefore didn't have much influence to peddle!
So, Senators Leahy and Schumer, how about subpoenaing the other
eighty-five U.S. attorneys and asking them some hard questions about
their last six years?