Bush's AG Problem

Larry Kudlow is right: last evening, the president did not actually give a rationale for why the eight targeted U.S. attorneys were fired. But Larry doesn't say the obvious: the reason they were fired was politics. No other reason makes any real sense. But Bush can't say that. And he can't say anything else persuasive. So he has tried to reconfigure this whole thing as a fight with the Dems. But not even NRO can swallow that. It's actually a fight with the Republicans - at least those Republicans who think the justice system should be more than a tool in winning elections. I have an image in my head of Karl Rove wondering how he got beat in the November elections, figuring that sleaze and corruption hurt the GOP, and wondering how to turn it back on the Dems. Without compliant U.S. attorneys, he cannot counter-attack. So he made a list and got them fired. Isn't this kind of activity routine for Rove-Bush Republicans? Isn't it, so to speak, right in front of our nose?