Nope, nothing wrong here.

"In his remarks Tuesday, Bush emphasized that he appoints federal prosecutors and it is natural to consider replacing them. While saying he disapproved of how the decisions were explained to Congress, he insisted "there is no indication that anybody did anything improper.""

That's one of the things that's so frustrating about this guy. You don't really ever really know if he's being extremely stupid, ass-headedly stubborn, or is simply lying.

With each subsequent testimony and document dump, it becomes increasingly clear that the Administration wanted to use United States Attorneys as guard dogs for Republican politicians and attack dogs against Democratic ones. And that the USAs that didn't want to go along with that got pushed out and replaced with ones that did.

I suppose, it is possible that Bush doesn't see anything 'improper' about that... he did, after all, 'win' the Presidency. And these are all supposedly 'his' guys, that serve 'at his pleasure.' Which, to him and his circle of cronies might very well mean that they are supposed to do his bidding, no matter how nakedly political and partisan that is.

The rest of us here in America find it very improper indeed. Also disgusting. And more than a little frightening.

We might accept that people come into a politically appointed office with certain leanings and tendencies. And even understand if they allow these leanings and tendencies to affect them in the fringes of their duties... like if there's a very close judgement call to be made, their judgement might be nudged toward the direction of their leanings and tendencies. People, after all, are not perfect.

But this is a case that goes far beyond that. This is the sort of stuff that conspiracy theories and banana republics are made of. This is an attempt to stymie prosecutors from following a clear trail of wrongdoing and to send them down false trails for political gains.

That's a road that no American, Republican or Democrat, should want our justice system to begin going down. Not only does it make a mockery of the hard work that our country has done to preserve our laudable level of professionalism, but it sets a nasty precedent that could be used with the change of administrations.

Of course, that's in the long term. And if there's one aspect of Bush's personality that isn't tough to read, it's that he doesn't really give a fuck about anything any further out time-wise than his next brush-clearing vacation.