or is this another example of how Dems and the people in general are getting the "We are so bipartisaned!" treatment.

Or, 111 dimension chess (no typo on the number) where they're keeping them in place the better to investigate them?

Still, say wha'?

Reeks of Obama-style bipartisanship: No Repubs will be able to say he fired all the past administration's USattys.

Still, OMG.

Obama would not have gotten one percent in Iowa if we had known about this.

about five queasy moments today. Glad about Fitzgerald, but you have to wonder about some of the rest.

Seriously... don't you have to have, like, real lawyers to put in if you take even Regent-Law-School grads out?

competent-looking resumes, at the very least.

let me just say: i'm only the family member to some, and sex object of (non family) other, lawyers, but even *i* could come up with a list 50-1000 go-getting, 99.9%tile, experts in (fill in your policy geek-on area) law types to stuff the entire DoJ or any other element of the fed gov't with lobster food great legalists willing to do my bidding or the work of a newfound Populist Agenda. really, it's laughable easy to do. and bonus: when you hire the young, brilliant, and dedicated to their cause to a degree some would call 'obession,' you know what often happens? you get...results. and prosecutions. and even indictments.

we here all know what this is about. nothing to see here, Citizens. move along. never mind past malfeasance, law breaking, torture, etc. keeping the Village fat and happy and the party circuit just the way it is. isn't that what is most important? to us all?

ache just now, dearest O. but yes, i appreciate your snark. i'm also reading a history of some 18thc legalists before and after the revolution, between tiling projects. it's...illuminating, to say the least.

octopus, Mondrian, and peacock:

feh. they all suck. but such was last week. they’ll be fine in the shade beds.

Obama, not Bush, now seeking delay of Rove deposition:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_not_...

- read that article if you haven't done it yet, it's... interesting.

(heh, i wonder what Obama's 'progressive base' thinks about that one.
in fact, out of (morbid) curiousity, i think i'll go see what's happening on the DU and dkos... ~ )

have you ever read that children's book about the ikon the English kids made to give as a gift?
they used toffee wrappers for the colors.

Damn, wish I could remember the name. Read it in junior high, and it made me cry.

Not at Main DOJ or in the trenches, where they can be a big asset, but in US Attorney jobs. You need experience for a job like that, which includes legal decisions and managing hundreds of people and handling political/media issues. Lawyers are already notoriously bad managers. Inexperienced lawyers doing it? Bah.

Having said that, Eric Holder was the DAG and US Attorney in DC, he must know hundreds, if not thousands, of experienced, qualified lawyers. Same thing for the Obamas. Lawyers always know tons of lawyers. Not to mention the lists they usually get from Senators and the state bars for each USAO district.

Plus, each USAO should have an experienced First Assistant US Attorney who could run things in the absence of a political appointee for a few weeks or months. Entire Departments and agencies are being run that way. A USA is not usually indispensable and a bad one can do way more harm than simply having a vacant position.

Maybe you have a particular case, like in Illinois, where a USA needs to be kept on, but I doubt that's true for all of these districts. Most USAs (of either party) aren't anywhere near the level of Pat Fitzgerald.