That’s It?

The White House either hired a bunch of incompetent U.S. attorneys to start with, or hired a bunch of competent U.S attorneys that were incompetently fired. ~Rahm Emanuel

Well, at least that’s a clear statement of what the stakes are.  They aren’t really very high now that we see them being laid out in a single statement.  If it is the former, how is it shocking any longer to find out that this administration chose people who were unqualified for their positions?  They almost always choose unqualified people (see Rice, Condi).  If the latter, how is it shocking that this administration bungled something so elementary and basic?  They very often bungle the firing of their people (see Brown, Michael; O’Neill, Paul; Rumsfeld, Donald).  The Democrats seem to think they can lower the public’s opinion of Mr. Bush, but it cannot go much lower before it begins hitting the bedrock of absolute loyalists.  These are partisans and “wingers” who will never turn on Bush, so there is really nowhere for this scandal to go.  Support for the administration can’t collapse much below where it is, and the only thing that will come of this is Gonzales’ resignation.  In other words, the covering up of the incompetent firing of incompetents will result in the resignation of an incompetent, and then that will be that.  What am I missing?