Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:34:20 AM
The chattering liberal media and their Democratic congressional allies are in a tizzy over the recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys by the Bush Administration. Critics of this decision fail to remember that U.S. Attorneys are political appointees who serve at the President's pleasure. It's not uncommon for presidential administrations who've been reelected to seek to bring in new blood for the second term in order to reinvigorate implementation of that administration's policies. This is what has happened in this case. Critics of this decision also forget that it's common managerial practice to regularly evaluate the job performance of employees and to relieve low performers of their duties if they don't meet organizational expectations. Given the Democratic Party's close involvement with organized labor, this is a difficult concept for these critics to grasp.
The most obnoxious of those critics is New York Senator Charles Schumer. I can't use the word that best describes Schumer in this forum but it has seven letters and rhymes with sinkhole. Schumer gravitates towards TV cameras the way vultures gravitate toward the corpse of a dead animal. He is a demagogue of the worst sort and he is one of the political leaders that contributes to a country's downfall such as those portrayed in Thomas Cole's series of paintings "The Course of Empire". This series of four paintings shows the rise and fall of nation states and Schumer's image can be found in the third of this series of painting's showing the empire as it goes through its death throes. I doubt Schumer has any substantive or positive legislative accomplishments to his credit.
I hope Attorney General Gonzales is not forced to resign over this Democrat hissy fit and also hope he has the courage to tell Schumer and his Democratic compatriots on the Senate Judiciary Committee to "shove it" when he goes up to testify before them on the Hill next week.