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On the Ninth Day of Christmas John Cornyn Gave to Me...

Nine Fired U.S. Attorneys

When embattled former US Attorney Alberto Gonzales showed up on Santa's Naughty List this the year for lying to Congress and the media over the controversial firings of US Attorneys for purely political reasons, Senator John Cornyn downplayed the scandal: "I don't see what the hubbub is about relieving eight US attorneys of their job." [CQ Transcriptions, 3/20/07]  Rather than respond substantively, or even take the growing scandal seriously, Cornyn went on to dismiss efforts to investigate the firings as "basically a political witch hunt." [ABC News, This Week, 3/18/07]

The only problem was, the investigation actually found witches.  Lots of them.  A whole coven, in fact.

Gonzales is long gone, and the latest witch to be removed is John Tanner, former chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, who was responsible for politicizing the division and threatening to purge states' voter rolls to suit Republican agendas. 

But John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Ethics Committee who overtly champions open government, couldn't be bothered to look into this scandal that undermined the American system of justice.  Cementing his status as a purely partisan hack and naughtiest of all Republicans, Cornyn refused to recuse himself from the investigation of a fellow Republican Senator accused of improperly influencing the dismissal of one of the US attorneys.

As you open your gifts this Christmas, be grateful that John Cornyn is not your Santa Claus, since by now all the elves and reindeer would've been fired for not working hard enough to carry out a radical Republican agenda.

 

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