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RUSH: All right. Here\u2019s a headline I didn\u2019t think I would see. It\u2019s not a news story. It\u2019s a headline<\/a> I didn\u2019t think I would see: ‘Bush Gives Gonzales Support, Mounts Counterattack.\u2019 Now, what the story is is this. ‘President George W. Bush offered embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ‘strong backing,\u2019 the White House said today as the administration mounted a counterattack aimed at quelling the controversy over the firing of eight federal prosecutors. Bush made an early phone call to Gonzales to express his support, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. ‘The president reaffirmed his strong backing of the attorney general\u2019 and there is no truth to reports the administration is looking for a replacement for Gonzales, she said. The president urged Gonzales to fight efforts to force him out, said a Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, what this is about is this story from the Politico<\/a> that was posted at about 6:30 last night by Mike Allen, ‘White House Sounds Out Gonzales Replacements — Republican officials, operating at the behest of the White House, have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions. Among the names floated by administration officials are Michael Chertoff of homeland security and the anti-terrorism coordinator in the White House Frances Townsend.\u2019 She\u2019s a babe, but I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s qualified for this. ‘Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is a White House prospect as well. So is former Solicitor General Ted Olson, but sources were unsure whether he would want the job.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So the White House has mounted this comeback. ‘No, no, no, we\u2019re not asking anybody to go out and find replacements. If we wanted to we\u2019d do it ourselves anyway. Why would we ask Republicans to find replacements out there?\u2019 Bush has now mounted a counterattack on all of this. Bruce Bartlett<\/a> has a column at Human Events.com, saying this is much ado about nothing, and he cites some of the efforts of Harry Truman and FDR to influence justice department activity and so on. Of course the Democrats would simply say, ‘Well, that\u2019s so long ago.\u2019 Besides, the Drive-Bys are going to ignore that because it\u2019s Democrats. Democrats are allowed to do this. Democrat presidents can fire all 93 US attorneys — with cause, without cause, in the middle of investigations — in the middle of corruption investigations! They can do that all day long and nobody is going to complain. The Drive-By Media\u2019s big guns will circle the wagons. The Democrats are not going to criticize themselves. But you go back and you look at FDR and Harry Truman, it\u2019s so long ago, to cite the fact Democrats have done it, too, which just means that the recitation of the Clinton firings is not sticking out there, apparently. <\/p>\n

However, our old buddy Clarice Feldman <\/a>at American Thinker, one of our favorite blogs, has a piece just posted called: ‘Selective Amnesia on Firing US Attorneys.\u2019 She writes thus: ‘A common media trick to get editorial opinion into apparent news stories is the use of outside ‘scholars\u2019 to argue the writer\u2019s point for him. So, I was not astonished to read this about the Gonzales kerfuffle in the St Louis Post- Dispatch: ‘ Several former U.S. attorneys and legal scholars say the timing of the Bush administration\u2019s replacement of top federal prosecutors is not only atypical, but also a threat to the impartial exercise of justice. ‘The sanctity of that position, in terms of that position being immune from any kind of pressure from the administration or Congress, has been the hallmark of the U.S. attorney process. It\u2019s been the hallmark of the federal system of justice,\u2019 said W. Charles Grace, a former U.S. attorney for Illinois\u2019 southern district.\u2019 The article doesn\u2019t say which administration Mr. Grace served in .This is not surprising . When using this trick to squeeze opinion in a news story by using an outside ‘expert\u2019, the writer rarely discloses the expert\u2019s bias, usually Democratic.\u2019<\/p>\n

Her point is the author, the writer, is already a big lib, but to cover his own liberalism and to get his own opinion in, he will go out and find an expert who will echo his own sentiments, which is not hard to do. There are a lot of liberals out there. Of course when a writer does not disclose the expert\u2019s bias, you can bet that it\u2019s usually Democrat or liberal. So Clarice Feldman Googled the name W. Charles Grace, and she found that ‘he was a U.S. attorney in 1998 which suggests to me that President Clinton appointed him, and he appointed a lot of them, having fired every single US Attorney when he took office, and 30 more subsequently during his eight year term in office.\u2019 Did you know that, folks? In addition to the \u201993 bloodletting of 93 US attorneys, he fired 30 more in the course of his two years. Did you know that? Nobody made a big stink about it. <\/p>\n

Now, ‘while the number he replaced was astounding, his immediate Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter, replaced at least one during the middle of his term of office. ‘As Republicans rubbed their hands in glee, the Carter Administration last week found itself trying to explain away a skein of presidential lies. In a letter to Justice Department investigators looking into the firing two weeks ago of Philadelphia\u2019s Republican U.S. Attorney, David Marston, Carter last week corrected a misstatement he had made during a nationally televised press conference on Jan. 12. Republican congressmen saw an opportunity to duplicate last summer\u2019s damaging controversy over Bert Lance\u2019s financial peccadilloes, and to lay siege again to what was once the President\u2019s pride: his credibility.\u2019 It was Carter\u2019s own fault. During his campaign he rashly declared, ‘All federal judges and prosecutors should be appointed strictly on the basis of merit without any consideration of political aspects or influence.\u2019 &hellip; Carter\u2019s problem was that he didn\u2019t tell the truth – several times – about his role in removing Marston. And it came out that he had been asked to fire Marston by one of the targets of an investigation, Rep. Joshua Eilberg of Pennsylvania. Nevertheless Carter went ahead and fired Marston. It got worse. Marston had notified a Justice Department official that Eilberg was a target.\u2019<\/p>\n

So Jimmy Carter also replaced a US attorney in the middle of his term — not Carter\u2019s term, but the US attorney\u2019s term. Now, one of the things they\u2019re saying about Bush, ‘Well, you gotta let these guys terms expire,\u2019 and the guy in Arkansas\u2019, by the way, did, Bud Cummins. ‘You gotta let these terms expire.\u2019 So Jimmy Carter did it. Some hell was raised, but not much, of course. Jimmy Carter was a good Democrat. The Drive-By Media has always been liberal-Democrat. So we have much ado about nothing here when you get right down to it. Actually, there may be something cooking here but it would be, once again, renegades in the Department of Justice trying to sabotage the administration either for their own personal gain, advancement or what have you, or just general politics. But Bloomberg News is reporting that Bush called Gonzales, ‘You hang in there, buddy! Don\u2019t cave into this. We\u2019re going to mount a counterattack, and we\u2019re not looking for your replacements.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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