Cutting through the billowing fog

Of blathering rightwingers desperately trying to obfuscate the facts, I give you Josh Marshall:

Okay, enough. The president fired US Attorneys to stymie investigations of Republicans and punish US Attorneys who didn't harass Democrats with bogus voter fraud prosecutions. In the former instance, the evidence remains circumstantial. But in the latter the evidence is clear, overwhelming and undeniable.

Indeed, it is so undeniable the president hismelf does not deny it.

Now we need to start chanting 'rule of law' and hire somebody like Kenneth Starr, right?

Update: TPM Muckraker notes that a certain U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan, who was a total 'Bushie' yet had many complaints about his competence:

Ryan only was added to the list in early December, after a federal judge warned the Justice Department that she was "going to ask members of Congress to get her a copy of the blistering evaluations the department had done of Ryan earlier that year." The emails strongly suggest that Ryan was fired in order to prevent that from happening.

Just let that sink in. In the only case where there was a strong case for firing, the DoJ had to be extorted to do it.