Infinite Monkeys

Dick Morris is hardly a reliable source of analysis on an issue of right-and-wrong. He views absolutely everything through a political prism.

Tony Blankley, on both The McLaughlin Group and KCRW's Left, Right and Center did a good job explaining where the "right and wrong" of the issue can be found:

1. These are political appointees. The President has the right to fire attorneys for pretty much any reason, including their failure to adhere to broad priority-based assignments. In this example, if the attorneys were supposed to focus on voter fraud and failed or refused to do so, firing them is perfectly acceptable.
2. They administration can NOT lie to Congress about why attorneys were fired. If they did so, it is absolutely appropriate to hold them accountable for those lies.
3. If attorneys were instructed and/or intimidated to choose their voter fraud enforcements along political lines (i.e. prosecute Democrats more vigorously than Republicans) then this was not only inappropriate, it is likely criminal. If there is legitimate evidence that political intimidation occurred, Congress is absolutely right to investigate.

Of course, those who engage with the news media (and the media itself) "dumb-down" the issue so much that careful distinction among the above points (and others) tends to go by the wayside.

I think Morris is wrong. The fact that the administration is offering wishy-washy apologies doesn't make it look spineless about point number one, it makes it look guilty of points two and three.