something that seems to escape understanding by liberals: the President has absolute legal authority to appoint and fire federal judges and attorneys AT WILL, no reason is required (my next-door neighbor was a Federal judge appointed by Reagan, who was immediately fired when Jimmy Carter took office - a good thing, he was a hangin' judge on pot offenses) - also, when President Clinton fired ALL of the Federal attorneys upon entering the White House, not one complaint was heard from the Republicans (evidently, the hated Republicans were educated enough to understand the law, and knew Clinton was within his rights) - also, Reagan fired a bunch, Carter also fired a bunch - it is common practice, and had never been complained about before, it's just more of the same, tired, old 30-second soundbites, (that seems to be enough these days, to sway an election, an election by lazy, uninformed voters - and, that is a sad state of affairs :