Sooner Than Later

Yesterday, Arlen Specter (R - Wingnuttia) intimated that we may have a new Attorney General (to replace the current rogue model) sooner than later.

If you look at TPM's helpful timeline, you see that the conspiracy -- oops! -- I mean the idea to fire U.S. Attorneys began in March 2005. Then you see that in December 2005, Specter's chief counsel "slipped a provision into the Patriot Act reauthorization bill that made it possible to replace U.S. Attorneys permanently without Senate confirmation."

Am I supposed to think that Specter didn't know what was going on? That his chief counsel, who, I assume, he supervises, just happened to make it easier for the administration to can U.S. Attorneys the administration thought unfriendly to their great and glorious Republican revolution? Was Specter negligent? Is he stupid -- or does he merely think I am stupid?

The Attorney General is not the only one with some explaining to do.