Remember, “Plastic Fruit”? You know that fake stuff that replaced “Waxed Fruit” as a table ornament? It looks real, but it’s not and if you try to eat it, well….it’s fake!

My mom had told me that fake fruit was decoy to discourage flies. I don’t know about that, but in this trumped up reality show called the “Prosecutor Scandal”, one would have to wonder why the hugh effort over what amounts to “fake fruit”.

This editoral is an example of floating up “Fake Fruit”. First this from the Fort Wayne Sentinel.

“WASHINGTON – A former chairman of the Washington state Republican Party said Tuesday he talked with the GOP-appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle during the agonizing recounts in the 2004 governor’s race.

Chris Vance said then-U.S. Attorney John McKay made it clear he would not discuss whether his office was investigating allegations of voter fraud in the election. He said McKay cut off the conversation.

“I thought it was part of my job, to be a conduit,” Vance, who now operates a consulting business, said in a telephone interview. “We had a Republican secretary of state, a Republican prosecutor in King County and a Republican U.S. attorney, and no one was doing anything.”

Vance also said that he was in contact with the White House’s political office at the time.

Those conversations and others are coming to light as Democrats in Congress investigate whether McKay and seven other U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons.”

“For political reasons”…..and?

When in the history of US attorney terminations has it NOT been for “Political Reasons”? That’s the reason most are released – when they fail to serve the interests and needs of the President of the United States.

Note that in this case John McKay was failing to execute his duties in investigating suspected voter fraud, as was the case in New Mexico with David Iglesias. (More on that interesting twist later).

Moving on to this editorial in the Washington Post, “Time to go, Mr. Gonzales“:

“Ousting a group of top federal prosecutors isn’t some minor, inconsequential act. It’s the sort of thing that a responsible attorney general would be deeply immersed in. Gonzales’s depiction of his own marginality is the most damning evidence of his unfitness for the job.”

Oh really, like Reno was so deeply immersed in the firing of all 93 US attorneys – again unprecedented in history before or since – that she blamed it on Clinton?

Again, “Plastic Fruit”, nice to look at, but fake, and a decoy.

The fact is that this is a manufactured (only in the psychosis of those so infected with BDS they beat their dogs whom they’ve named “George”) ‘scandal’. There is no scandal, only fear generated by what Gonzales may be prepared to do as I eluded to here. There IS a reason that this thing is popping into overdrive. Just as the Plame Game was a manufactured scandal that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and produced virtually squat for those who orchestrated it, this is simply another bow shot. Because of the completion of several investigations involving leaks and other odds and ends, Democrats and MSM outlets are shaking fake fruit before the public in an effort to oust Gonzales and thus kill the threat.

Mark at Redstate nails it:

“So where exactly is the scandal? The CNN story reports that Miers sought the dismissal of all US Attorneys at the start of President Bush’s second term. The Department of Justice objected to this and, instead, recommended the removal of just eight. Rove apparently advised against removing all of the attorneys en masse.

The most prominent case among the fired prosecutors is that of the former US Attorney for New Mexico. He says he felt pressured to speed up his ongoing investigation into allegations against Democrats because he received phone calls from Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson, both of New Mexico. But, he doesn’t allege that he was pressured to find wrongdoing where there wasn’t any or pressured to make up allegations of wrongdoing for the benefit of Republicans. Both lawmakers categorically deny that they put pressure on anyone. Just because the prosecutor says he felt pressured doesn’t mean he was pressured. Bottom line, he dragged his feet and got canned.

Sen. Domenici recommended the former prosecutor for his job. Now Domenici is under fire for complaining about the prosecutor’s performance to the White House and the Justice Department. It seems a little too precious to me that United States Attorneys can be appointed based in part upon the recommendation of politicians and politically connected people in the district, but they cannot be removed for the same reason. Either insulate all Federal prosecutors from the political process, or accept that they hold political positions and will sometimes become the victim of political winds.

As for Miers and Rove, They are (were) the two closest advisors to the president on matters legal and political respectively. Of course they were involved in this. Of course they had recommendations, that’s in their job descriptions.

I ask again, where is the scandal here? Are we as Republicans and conservatives going to submit to the fact that there was wrongdoing just because the Democrats and the media say so? Rather, I suspect that this whole push by the Democrats is to make Federal prosecutors gun shy about investigating Democrats. There, I said it. It’s all political backside covering in my estimation.”

Again, the President of the United States doesn’t need a reason to fire a US Attorney. That’s what “serves at the pleasure” means for those on the left who forgot their psychosis meds today. If the boss is displeased, you’re gone.

No scandal – simply reality.