What About The US Attorneys Who Didn’t Get Fired?
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We all know about the Gonzalez Eight. But Krugman has an analysis of the conduct of all the other Bush-appointed US attorneys, the ones who went about their business in, um, the usual way:
They bigger scandal, however, almost surely involves prosecutors still in office. The Gonzales Eight were fired because they wouldn’t go along with the Bush administration’s politicization of justice. But statistical evidence suggests that many other prosecutors decided to protect their jobs or further their careers by doing what the administration wanted them to do: harass Democrats while turning a blind eye to Republican malfeasance.Donald Shields and John Cragan, two professors of communication, have compiled a database of investigations and/or indictments of candidates and elected officials by U.S. attorneys since the Bush administration came to power. Of the 375 cases they identified, 10 involved independents, 67 involved Republicans, and 298 involved Democrats. The main source of this partisan tilt was a huge disparity in investigations of local politicians, in which Democrats were seven times as likely as Republicans to face Justice Department scrutiny.
Note: this might be as good a time as any to say that I was only half-serious when I said this scandal was about the cancellation of the 2008 elections.
There you go again, offering facts and statistical data to put the science in political science!
What a perfect counterweight to Coultergeist’s BS.
(And thanks for remembering to put my by-line up on the last post.)
There you go again, offering facts and statistical data to put the science in political science!
…because, as we all know, reality has a well-known liberal bias.
And yet we’ve experienced a flood of Republican scandals, indictments and prosectutions. They’re so f*cking corrupt they’re caught even in a rigged game.
So f*ck you, Coulter (and I mean that only in the metaphorical sense – ewwwww).