POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS TO 'ESCAPE THE AXE': As Congress investigates the politicization of the United States attorney offices by the Bush administration, it should review the extraordinary events that took place recently in a federal courtroom in Wisconsin. "The case involved Georgia Thompson, a state employee sent to prison on the flimsiest of corruption charges just as her boss, a Democrat, was fighting off a Republican challenger. It just might shed some light on a question that lurks behind the firing of eight top federal prosecutors: what did the surviving attorneys do to escape the axe?" writes the New York Times. This case indicates that U.S. Attorney in Wisconsin -- Steven Biskupic -- went after the Bush administration's political opponents to avoid the Justice Department's hit list. In 2005, the Wisconsin state Republican party prepared a report for Karl Rove that attacked Biskupic for not going after voter fraud aggressively enough. Biskupic's decision to then go after Thompson, who was sentenced shortly before the 2006 election, was a boon to the Republican gubernatorial candidate in the 2006 election, who "ran a barrage of attack ads that purported to tie Ms. Thompson's 'corruption' to [Democratic Gov. Jim] Doyle." Last week, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Thompson "was wrongly convicted of making sure a state travel contract went to a firm linked to Gov. Jim Doyle's re-election campaign and freed her from an Illinois prison." The federal judges, acting with "unusual speed," "assailed the government's case" and said that Biskupic's evidence was "beyond thin." Two University of Minnesota professors "have compiled a database of investigations and/or indictments of candidates and elected officials by U.S. attorneys since the Bush administration came to power. Of the 375 cases they identified, 10 involved independents, 67 involved Republicans, and 298 involved Democrats. The main source of this partisan tilt was a huge disparity in investigations of local politicians, in which Democrats were seven times as likely as Republicans to face Justice Department scrutiny."How does it feel to be identified as a loyal Bushie now? It means you have no ethics, you put party before the law, you put party before integrity, you put party before honesty. You put party before your country, the citizens, your own oath of office.
A loyal Bushie is one who follows his master above all else. And look at where it got you.
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