Michael Kinsley on the US attorney firings:

The trouble with this scandal, as a scandal, has been that - if you're going to be honest (and why not?) - there is not only nothing illegal about the president firing a US attorney. There is nothing even really wrong with it. Even if it's just to make room for a crony of Karl Rove. And I'm sorry, but I just can't see how firing eight can be heinous but firing 93 is perfectly OK. Nor can I see - if the issue is neutral justice - how firing someone from your own party is worse than firing someone from the other party. Much of the commentary on this story has seemed disingenuous about this: breathless revelations that the White House was involved in the decision, that it may have been (gasp!) political, and so on.

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