Money quote from Bud Cummins, long time Republican, former Bush-Cheney Campaign Arkansas attorney, Florida chad counter for Republican Party and Presidential Elector on why the US Attorney scandal is important:
CUMMINS: "Well I just think that it's important that every citizen can believe that federal prosecutors are operating in a neutral and non-partisan way. Well many of us were political before we got those jobs. We come to 'em through a fairly political process. But it's very important that we leave the politics out and give up that part of our lives while we serve as federal prosecutors. Because when you go and indict somebody and threaten to take their liberty away and their property—you know, that's a pretty serious thing. And—and the public has to believe that you're doing it for right reasons and not wrong reasons. Once something like this happens, and you let somehow politics get injected into substantive decisions of the Department, people have a perception that maybe there is a political component to other decisions you're making."
Full transcript here :http://www.pbs.org/now/news/311-transcript.html.