The Clinton defense

If all else fails, conservatives blame Bill Clinton. Its a sure sign they are in trouble.

Now they are claiming that he fired all the US Attorneys and it was an effort to protect a congressman from Illinois from being prosecuted. That isn't true and the congressman was prosecuted and sent to jail. New presidents always receive letters of resignation from prior political appointees. But - when the president fires a carefully selected group of his own U.S. attorneys in the middle of his second term for reasons that appear to be political, that's different from what Clinton (and Reagan) did. The difference is not in the rule that allowed Bush and Clinton and Reagan to dismiss U.S. attorneys -- which is that those appointees serve at their pleasure -- but in the reasons behind their actions.

As we try to find out why they were fired, the White House starts telling lies about it. Can't these people just tell the truth? Doesn't look like it.