There really was a simple answer all along

The latest semi-meaningless tidbit is that Sen. Domenici may have had something to do with the firing of one of the 7 or 8 US Attorneys that were pink-slipped, because Petey was unhappy about the slow pace of a corruption inquiry implicating Democrats in his state just before the '06 elections.

I don't recall who in the administration originally announced that the group all were fired for performance-related issues, but he's the person who needs to be let go for incompetence. The answer was, and should always be in cases like this, that US Attorneys are appointed by, serve at the pleasure of, and may be removed without cause by the President, and he has chosen to appoint others to those posts. Note the full stop at the end of that last sentence -- it's really the key to the argument. For all the talk of expanded powers and unitary executives, these guys often just don't really grasp that "because I say so" is sometimes the complete, right answer.