JUST ANOTHER DIVERSION?

Yesterday, April 19, Attorney General Gonzalez appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend the firing of eight Federal Attorneys. I believe that Gonzalez and the administration had every right to decide whether to fire attorneys appointed by them and in whom they had lost faith for whatever reasons i.e., incompetence, sluggish work ethic (in my day it was called laziness) or simple lack of compatible moral character or political philosophy. The action by the Senates Judiciary Committee is, in my opinion, in response to the "sour grapes" of "poor losers" who lost their Federal job. They probably thought that once "in" they were above the fold and could not or would not be disturbed.

Questions have been asked as to the extent politics may have provided the motivation for the firings. It would seem to me that any person serving in any Administration should realize that they are serving within a political environment at the pleasure of the party in power. In my opinion, this is not an issue that the Country should become alarmed about. It strikes me that what we have encountered here is a group of card carrying Republicans who failed to impress their boss, right or wrong. Perhaps their work ethic or relationships more closely identified with liberal philosophies that did not bode well for their job responsibilities. Many registered Republicans are closely aligned to the liberal views of the Democratic Party and thus, it is easy for them to "cry foul". As the two parties have grown to be less and less individualistic and increasingly embrace similar views, it is difficult to differentiate philosophies.

I personally am getting tired of the politicians constantly nit picking at each other and using valuable taxpayer monies to criticize and create disillusionment with our President. We elected the President and the Congress to do a job, and it is time they did that for which they were elected and stopped playing politics with our taxpayer money.