No resignation from Mary Beth Buchanan

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It is commonplace and considered good form and decent human behavior for U.S. attorneys to tender their resignations when a new president takes office. That clears the playing field and allows the new executive to fill those slots with new appointees.

Mary Beth Buchanan is the U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh. Appointed by George W. Bush, she's hung her hat in that office since 2001.

Mary Beth Buchanan is not resigning. Filled with love for her country and because of her ardent desire to ensure the upholding of the laws of the United States, Ms. Buchanan said righteously, "It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time."


From all accounts U.S. attorney Buchanan is a hard-core Republican loyalist, and erstwhile supporter of prezident Bush. She is a "political" U.S. attorney, who according to Faiz Shakir at Think Progress, "has been criticized for bringing politically-motivated investigations and charges against politicians in western Pennsylvania."

Not only so, but she's the person responsible for hiring the incompetent and theocratic Monica Goodling, and has "had a peripheral role in the U.S. attorney scandal" working with Attorney General Gonzales regarding the political firing of U.S. attorneys who refused to cooperate with the partisan orders of the Gonzales' Justice Department.

Additionally, she's considered the government's bulldog with regard to obscenity and pornography.


All of this is old news and has been reported in numerous places. The most significant and amazing piece of information to come from Buchanan's office, however, is that this "political Bushite," a woman who has fit like a glove within the Justice Department of Bush, Ashcroft, and Gonzales, now indicates that she would consider "further service to the United States."

Repugnicans continue to amaze me. Evidently, Ms. Buchanan also is devoid of an inner ethical core. She is a horrendously partisan political appointee who has acted in a horrendously partisan manner during her tenure as a U.S. attorney; she refuses to follow protocol and resign her office; and yet she wants to work with President-elect Obama!

Why? And how could she possibly think that President-elect Obama or anyone else on the Obama team could or would trust her?

Put her out to pasture. Please!

Maybe she can give legal advice to Alberto Gonzales when he comes to trial for abuse of power.

There's more here from Daily Kos. The entire Shakir article at Think Progress is here.