And by the way, Rove has opened himself up for this by making public statements that the seven were fired for bad performance, which by the way there is no evidence of.

A second by the way Wavemaker, ranting about “partisian a**holes fishing for evidence,” does not contribute to the discussion on this matter. But, I guess that gives us a pretty good picture of why you can’t see anything wrong in what this administration has done.

His assertion that he got a call from Domenici asking about an ongoing criminal investigation is not an allegation and is not in dispute. Domenici confirmed that he made the call. It is a violation of Congressional ethics to call a prosecutor about an ongoing investigation (with the sole exception being if the Congressman has material information about the case). The larger issue, of course, is the way in which using the levers of government power to elect Republicans and defeat Democrats violates such basic tenets of our legal system as the impartiality of justice. Does this give the Senate the right to subpoena any Republican in the world? Of course not. Does it give the Senate the right to subpoena people in the Justice Department and White House who were involved? Absolutely.

You appear to overlook the distincition between evidence and allegation.

His “job approval ratings” or whatever are not evidence of wrongdoing. They are evidence of small-U “unfairness”, at least to him, but do not support claim of illegal conduct.

What I find amusing in Bush’s statement that “We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants” is this: wasn’t it a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants which got them into this mess in the first place?

Makes me throw up in my mouth, just a little.

Additionally might it be improper to claim that attorneys were being sacked because of sub-par performance when in fact they were being sacked because they were not loyal bushies. How about provided false information to the public and congress?

You want to quibble about pleasure of the president and illegality vs impropriety? Is this what you have been reduced to? This is what the public hated about Clinton and are currently dimissing the president as irrelavant for.

Look, I don’t know if it was illegal and neither do you. In our country, we believe in transparency because the image of impropriety is just as bad as actual impropriety. Congress is well within its rights to ask questions. Elections have consequences. In this case the consequences are consistent with the will of the people – to provide oversight to an incompetent and untrusted executive branch. Your comments about democrat corruption in this context are some kind of flight into fantasy and do not deserve a response.