Familiar Face Reappears for Key Role in Nevada

LAS VEGAS — President Obama on Friday nominated one of the nine federal prosecutors controversially fired by the Bush administration to retake his old job.

The renomination of the former United States attorney, Daniel G. Bogden, to the post for Nevada, came at the urging of Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada and the majority leader.
Mr. Reid said in a statement that he supported Mr. Bogden because he was “a highly qualified and skilled lawyer who served Nevada well before being wrongly removed from office.” Mr. Reid’s spokesman, Jon Summers, said the senator was “trying to right that wrong.”

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One of the 9 prosecutors fired by the Bush administration, causing a war between Liberals and Conservatives, has just been rehired by the Obama administration. There are going to be 2 arguments here....

The hyperpartisan Liberal argument - Obama hired back an honest prosecutor who was fired for refusing to conduct witch hunts on Democrats, while giving Republican crooks a free ride.

The hyperpartisan Conservative argument - Obama hired the prosecutor to dis the Bush administration, which had fired him for being incompetent. Hiring a prosecutor who was fired for incompetence shows that the Obama administration is incompetent.

I suspect that the truth is going to be somewhere between these 2 extremes. This is where the rest of you come in. Where, exactly, between these 2 extremes does the truth lie, or does one extreme or the other represent the truth?

Article is here.

Well, just as when I say Bush could fire whom he wished, Obama may hire whom he wishes.

danarhea said:

The hyperpartisan Liberal argument - Obama hired back an honest prosecutor who was fired for refusing to conduct witch hunts on Democrats, while giving Republican crooks a free ride.

The hyperpartisan Conservative argument - Obama hired the prosecutor to dis the Bush administration, which had fired him for being incompetent. Hiring a prosecutor who was fired for incompetence shows that the Obama administration is incompetent.

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The answer is "Yes".

An otherwise decent lawyer who pissed off his former boss gets hired by the new boss, who delights in pissing on the old boss.

It was politics that got him fired and it was politics that got him hired.

As long as he's a decent lawyer, I'm not going to worry too terribly much about it.

Oftencold said:

Well, just as when I say Bush could fire whom he wished, Obama may hire whom he wishes.

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Yet another person who really doesn't understand how the dismissals were carried out -- never mind the ethics of why they were fired.

No, the powers of the President do not make him Head of Human Resource for the Executive Branch.

hazlnut said:

Yet another person who really doesn't understand how the dismissals were carried out -- never mind the ethics of why they were fired.

No, the powers of the President do not make him Head of Human Resource for the Executive Branch.

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Er....

U.S. Constitution said:

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

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Congress can check the President on appointments, but other than that, yes, he is the head of HR. Also, that would be the Judicial branch.