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(Think Progress) Dumbass US Attorney in Pittsburgh: "I don't care who's President. I appoint myself to the next term." Yes, she's the one who hired Monica Goodling. Why do you ask?   (thinkprogress.org) divider line 118
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Diogenes [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 10:51:12 AM  
"It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time," she said yesterday.

But firing them all was just A-OK.

 
thamike 2008-12-05 10:55:24 AM  
"It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time," she said yesterday.

Pretend you work at The Gap. Would you rather resign or get hauled out by security at The Gap?

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 10:58:22 AM  
thamike: "It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time," she said yesterday.

Pretend you work at The Gap. Would you rather resign or get hauled out by security at The Gap?


Actually, the latter. If I get canned by The Gap I'm going out big!

/but I get your point

 
nardman [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 11:02:54 AM  
So he gets to fire her instead. I think that's fitting.

 
co-conspirator [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 11:13:17 AM  
She's also the twat that pushed the ridiculous case against Tommy Chong, and then made sure he went to jail by striking down the deal they brokered on a flimsy pretext.

She's a puffed-up, self-aggrandizing empty suit, and a "security" bully.

 
Lando Lincoln [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 11:28:32 AM  
Even US attorneys can be complete dumbasses.

 
Dead for Tax Reasons [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 11:30:19 AM  
i'm in charge here!

 
keiverarrow [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 11:32:00 AM  
dat biatch gon' be fired

 
JustinCase [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 12:14:18 PM  
Whatever happened to that one guy, I think a US prosecuting attorney in FL. He got busted in an airport in MI for showing up to have sex with a four year old. The scary part was that communication had been intercepted with the Mom, it wasn't a sting. Has he gone to trial yet?

/partial threadjack, still has to do with our US Attorneys.

 
BooBoo23 [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 12:24:41 PM  
nardman: So he gets to fire her instead. I think that's fitting.

And far more rewarding.

 
madmann [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 01:24:30 PM  
co-conspirator: She's also the twat that pushed the ridiculous case against Tommy Chong, and then made sure he went to jail by striking down the deal they brokered on a flimsy pretext.

Well, in her defense, he should have taken the reds. Anyone who has seen the show knows that behind the other two doors are narcs.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 01:35:06 PM  
Fark her. She's the one that set that whole Operation Pipe Dream crap in play that landed Tommy Chong in prison. Good jorb. Thanks for expending our government resources wisely and to the benefit our our citizenry's immediate protection...asshat.

/dave's not here, man

 
Peter von Nostrand 2008-12-05 01:36:40 PM  
I'm not sure she understands how the system works. She'll soon find out, I suppose.

 
mypalmike 2008-12-05 01:37:05 PM  
I expect a similar announcement from Bush any time now.

 
Knutebleh 2008-12-05 01:38:16 PM  
She looks like a guido.

 
michaeld5 2008-12-05 01:38:28 PM  
Dead for Tax Reasons: i'm in charge here!

I think you meant:
"I'm in charge here!"
kara.allthingsd.com

/In all fairness, vice president Bush was on an airplane from Houston.
//Someone had to take charge!

 
Shakespeare's Monkey 2008-12-05 01:40:02 PM  
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She's a dumbass.

/get that kitchen and bake me a pie, biatch.

 
demanton [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 01:42:14 PM  
Knutebleh: She looks like a guido.

I was going to say that she looks like an oompa-loompa attorney.

 
Bohemian 2008-12-05 01:42:43 PM  
Coont doesn't even begin to describe that woman.

I hope the first thing Obama does when he takes office is to fire her effective immediately and has her literally hauled out by security.

 
highendmighty 2008-12-05 01:43:03 PM  
If you get fired, you can collect unemployment. If she were to resign, she would not be elegible.

 
NanoHooker 2008-12-05 01:46:11 PM  
What a biatch.
Now, if only that stupid guy who set a $37 mil fire from a couple articles down was shooting near HER house... it would be a match made in heaven...

/yeah, I went there

 
rodeofrog 2008-12-05 01:46:14 PM  
This raises so many questions.

Number 1: While she's busy over this, who's cooking pie for her husband?

 
Seacrest 2008-12-05 01:46:32 PM  
I drive a Dodge Stratus!

 
The Why Not Guy [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 01:48:03 PM  
My, how things change in only a couple of years. Remember how "they serve at the pleasure of the President" was the big talking point from the Right?

 
matt2891 2008-12-05 01:50:07 PM  
Whatever. Stick around till Jan. 20th and get unceremoniously fired then. Suit yourself.

 
ifarkthereforiam 2008-12-05 01:50:26 PM  
She'll hang on until she is 'released' and then she will cry like a biatch about how persecuted republicans are. And the same righties who's mantra was "they serve a the president's pleasure' will eat it up.

 
Johnny Chicago 2008-12-05 01:50:33 PM  
Odd note: She was hired by U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan (herself a questionable choice) to work in the executive office of the US Attorney's office.

Buchanan was the one who got Tommy Chong 15 months in jail.

2 biatches 1 cup of hot steaming crazy.

 
yellow_shark 2008-12-05 01:51:19 PM  
She should probably start packing up her shiat...

 
urban_achiever 2008-12-05 01:51:49 PM  
nardman: So he gets to fire her instead. I think that's fitting.

I think this is exactly what she wants so that she can play the "poor me, they fired me unfairly because I am a persecuted Christian/Republican" card and use it as a springboard for a run for office.

 
Magorn 2008-12-05 01:52:43 PM  
co-conspirator: She's also the twat that pushed the ridiculous case against Tommy Chong, and then made sure he went to jail by striking down the deal they brokered on a flimsy pretext.

She's a puffed-up, self-aggrandizing empty suit, and a "security" bully.


Well its to be expected that the Harkonens would leave behind some die-hards and sabotuers to disrupt House Obama's take over of Washington.

I'm going to enjoy shoving the phrase "serve at the pleasure of the president" back down some folks throat in the next little while

 
immrlizard 2008-12-05 01:53:01 PM  
mypalmike: I expect a similar announcement from Bush any time now.

LOL That is exactly what I was thinking when I read the article.

 
Baskanavitch 2008-12-05 01:54:03 PM  
urban_achiever: nardman: So he gets to fire her instead. I think that's fitting.

I think this is exactly what she wants so that she can play the "poor me, they fired me unfairly because I am a persecuted Christian/Republican" card and use it as a springboard for a run for office.


I think that is exactly what she plans on doing. This coont needs to disappear. Painfully.

 
fasteddie199 2008-12-05 01:56:58 PM  
She is the lowest of the low.
A complete P.O.S.
DIAF

 
matt2891 2008-12-05 01:57:56 PM  
rodeofrog: This raises so many questions.

Number 1: While she's busy over this, who's cooking pie for her husband?


Jan. 19th: Her-"You'll have to fire me! Do you hear me Darkie-in-Chief!?! You'll have to fire me!"

Jan. 20th: Obama-"You're fired"

Jan. 21st: Her husband-"You. Kitchen. Sammich. Now. Don't tell me imma haffa choke a biatch!"

 
gt4pete 2008-12-05 01:58:03 PM  
I'll have my popcorn out on the 20th if she sticks around.

How much hubris can you possibly have to believe that you are sticking around for the good of the country when this exact same procedure has happened time and again without the country falling into disarray?

 
gt4pete 2008-12-05 02:00:37 PM  
yellow_shark: She should probably start packing up her shiat...

I think it'd be more fun to have security do it and then toss the box out next to her after she's already been flung over the front steps.

/If only they'd actually toss her out.
//Have to settle for a scowl and maybe some sunglasses instead.

 
SharkInfested 2008-12-05 02:02:57 PM  
More than that, she said she would consider working in the Obama administration.

HAHAHAHAHA - here's a Romero News Flash for you, darlin' - OBAMA DOESN'T WANT YOU WORKING IN HIS ADMINISTRATION!

/sorry, feeling shouty

 
Rodddxl 2008-12-05 02:03:38 PM  
ifarkthereforiam:
She'll hang on until she is 'released' and then she will cry like a biatch about how persecuted republicans are. And the same righties who's mantra was "they serve a the president's pleasure' will eat it up.

Or she'll get canned by Obama and quietly walk away and the righties won't say a thing just to show how retarded the left was when Bush canned some US Attorneys. There is a precedent for it.

 
SobrietyFighter 2008-12-05 02:04:25 PM  
incredimazing.com

What does this mean for us real people?

 
X-boxershorts 2008-12-05 02:05:03 PM  
Johnny Chicago: 2 biatches 1 cup of hot steaming crazy.

It's sickening, I know, and yet, we all feel compelled to watch:

Probably NSFW (not the video referenced previously) (new window)

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 02:06:16 PM  
Rodddxl:
Or she'll get canned by Obama and quietly walk away and the righties won't say a thing just to show how retarded the left was when Bush canned some US Attorneys. There is a precedent for it.


Keep saying that both situations are the same. It'll stop the pain.

 
highendmighty 2008-12-05 02:07:20 PM  
urban_achiever: nardman: So he gets to fire her instead. I think that's fitting.

I think this is exactly what she wants so that she can play the "poor me, they fired me unfairly because I am a persecuted Christian/Republican" card and use it as a springboard for a run for office.


If this theory has any merit, I think it would lean more towards the whole Bush/attorney firing uproar that was actually SOP, but the dems made it look like a scandal. She will get fired and then play "back-atcha."

 
highendmighty 2008-12-05 02:08:45 PM  
X-boxershorts: Johnny Chicago: 2 biatches 1 cup of hot steaming crazy.

It's sickening, I know, and yet, we all feel compelled to watch:

Probably NSFW (not the video referenced previously) (new window)


Nope. Gorgor's posts hit my limit of curious compulsion.

 
vox_Barfly 2008-12-05 02:09:21 PM  
This screams dumb in so many ways.

It's a lame pose to show the "Real Americans" aka Far Right wingnuts that she's a "Real Wingnut"TM too. Basically she's auditioning for a gig with the Palin crowd in 2012.

Does she really think she's going to outwit and/or humiliate a guy that basically came from out of nowhere beat the Clinton machine? Really? This should be mildly interesting to watch.

If you need $12 million and 2000 federal agents to take down Tommy Chong over a couple of bongs your doing it wrong. Very, very wrong.

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 02:10:57 PM  
highendmighty: She will get fired and then play "back-atcha."

And she'll be able to bring up the politically-motivated actions she refused to do to cause mean old Obama to fire her, just like in Bush's case...

 
etyer 2008-12-05 02:11:34 PM  
An open comment to everyone who doesn't know their head from a hole in the ground:

An attorney can be fired at any time by its client, for no reason whatsoever. That is a basic ethical principle in the practice of law. Whether the client is an individual or an entity like a corporation or even the government. U.S. Attorneys can be fired for political reasons and it is perfectly legal and ethical. It is common practice for new POTUS to fire the previous administration's attorneys. No questions asked. It is then up to the new POTUS to decide to rehire them, usually upon the advice of the new Attorney General.

So, in conclusion, all you dingbat liberals that think Bush firing the U.S. Attorneys was a scandal, IT WASN'T. And President Obama will do the same. Rightfully so.

 
hng [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 02:11:34 PM  
IXI Jim IXI: Rodddxl:
Or she'll get canned by Obama and quietly walk away and the righties won't say a thing just to show how retarded the left was when Bush canned some US Attorneys. There is a precedent for it.

Keep saying that both situations are the same. It'll stop the pain.


How are they different?

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 02:13:22 PM  
hng: How are they different?

What politically motivated task is she being fired for refusing?

 
HotWingConspiracy [TotalFark] 2008-12-05 02:14:43 PM  
She's fat and orange. That's grounds for firing.

 
X-boxershorts 2008-12-05 02:14:52 PM  
Highend...

The firing of a small handful of Bush Appointed attorney's, by Bush, in the MIDDLE of a Bush term, is what was so farking unusual about that whole gig.

And it wasn't the dummys in congress that started biatching about it first...it was the Bush appointed attorney's who let that cat outta the bag.

At first, congress didn't give a damn...but the Bush appointed atttorneys kept bugging them. So Congrass Asked the Bush administration 1 simple question.....why?

And instead of saying..."they serve at the discretion of the president"....no, the Bush administration made up some crapfest about performance. The Bush Administration LIED to Congress when asked a simple question.

As always, when it comes to the ideologically pure GOP apologists...they will continue to completely miss all the relevant points.

Sorry junior, that cat's already outta the bag and it AINT goin back in. No matter how hard you work at remaining ignorant.

 
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