The White House is already backtracking on saying Harriet Miers had the original idea of removing them all. Now memories are hazy, and nobody is sure who's idea it was.

This is still a case of the democrat's Pavlovian response to Karl Rove. Sorry. Thats all.

If you where talking about Gonzales you might be right, the scandal was brewing for several days before Rove's name was associated with it.

My read is that that Congress started out irked at Gonzales for taking advantage of an obvious loophole in the PATRIOT act to bypass the normal Congressional approval.

But once they began to investigate it became clear that this was a big problem. Six officials removed from office might not seem like much, but US Attorneys are major officials and are supposed to be free from political influence. It is very rare to remove any before their term is up, except when a president takes office when tradition allows him to accept the traditionally offered resignations from any and all.

Plus, it appears that several of those removed from office where removed for prosecuting Republicans or refusing to prosecute Democrats. And that is major league contemptible behavior.

Jay