Preet Bharara and 45 other U.S Attorney's fired by Trump Administration

[cinyc]

Good riddance to all 46 Obama holdovers.  Elections are supposed to have consequences, and political appointees shouldn't serve in the next administration.  They simply cannot be trusted.

I've never been a big Preet Bharara fan.  He grandstands too much, like his political mentor, Chuck Schumer.  Any prosecutor worth his salt could tackle corruption in New York State politics.  Bharara's not special, except that instead of doing so quietly, he did so quite publicly.  Bharara's refusal to honorably resign, like the rest of the prosecutors asked to resign yesterday merely confirms my opinion that Bharara is a grandstanding hack.  Good riddance!

[cinyc]

Ideally, these posts wouldn't be political appointments.  At the very least, can't we merge some of these?  There's no good reason to have multiple districts for states such as Oklahoma and Mississippi.

Ideally, there should be more political appointments in the federal government, not fewer.  The civil service class is almost all Democrats.  Republicans have a harder time getting their agenda through because of them.  The fewer non-political appointees, the better.