Bud Cummins Wonders

Do you remember Bud Cummins. He is the US Attorney in Arkansas who was asked to give up his job so Karl Rove's protege Tim Griffin could pad his resume. Of course, given his history Tim Griffin is probably unconfirmable as a US Attorney. Padding his resume takes him no where. Most of us have assumed that Griffin was sent to Arkansas to do a hatchet job on Hillary Clinton.

Bud Cummins wonders if his work investigating the Republican Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, son of the powerful Roy Blunt (R-MO), might have had something to do with his firing. Read the LA Times article and wonder too.

The problem with turning the DoJ into a nest of partisan hacks is that lots of people start wondering about the motivations behind particular prosecutions. Soon everybody wonders if all corruption charges are politically motivated. After these firings all Deputy US Attorneys and other professionals in the Department of Justice have to wonder if they are graded down for being straight shooters and if they are graded up for being "loyal Bushies."

Every US Attorney now knows one thing is for sure, the AG doesn't have his back unless he puts being a "loyal Bushie" ahead of everything else.