I don't know if anyone has done this, but I noticed that the attorneys fired by Bush weren't done so for not being Republicans, but that they were insufficiently so.
By looking at their political contributions (via opensecrets.org), it's obvious that these guys were rank-and-file-Republicans. This is hardly surpising given that they were appointed by Bush in the first place.
These guys weren't just giving money to GOP-lites. Among others, the fired attorneys gave money to Rick Santorum and Don Young, and of course GW Bush. These are the last people you'd expect to go easy on corrupt Democrats, despite Bush's paranoias.
This might not elicit too much sympathy from us Kossacks, but it seems to me that Bush is essentially liquidating the GOP base for the sake of his extremist vision of the Republican Party. How much money do you think these erstwhile Republicans will contribute in 2008?
CONTRIBUTION HISTORY
CAROL LAM
Tom Campbell 1/3/2000 $1,000
KEVIN V RYAN
Rick Santorum 11/3/2006 $500
Pete Wilson 8/29/2006 $1000
GW Bush 10/24/2003 $2000
8/31/2004 $1000
8/5/1999 $500
1/28/2000 $500
DANIEL G BOGDEN- No Political Contribution History
DAVID IGLESIAS
GW Bush 4/25/2000 $250
H.E CUMMINS III
Boozman, Fay W III 6/4/1998 $500
7/30/1998 $400
Bush, George W 8/18/1999 $1,000
3/15/2000 $1,000
Dickey, Jay 5/6/1993 $500
6/18/1997 $1,000
9/18/1995 $500
10/31/2000 $250
10/26/2000 $200
8/12/1999 $250
Gramm, Phil 9/21/1995 $1,000
Huckabee, Mike 11/2/1995 $1,000
Hutchinson, Tim 5/19/1994 $500
12/8/2000 $250
12/8/2000 $250
Powell, William E 7/1/1994 $500
8/3/1994 $500
Republican Party of Arkansas
5/2/1997 $1,250
11/13/1993 $600
5/22/1996 $400
5/24/1996 $200
3/14/1995 $500
3/20/1995 $500
8/12/1995 $400
Thomas, Robert Grant
8/31/2000 $250
Wyrick, Phillip 4/21/1998 $1,000
10/29/1998 $250
Young, Don 3/25/1998 $250
PAUL K CHARLTON
Kyl, Jon 10/21/2004 $750
JOHN MCKAY (While as lawyer at Cairncross & Hempelmann)
Gorton, Slade 12/31/1994 $250
3/3/1994 $250
TOM B HEFFELFINGER
Boschwitz, Rudy 3/13/1999 $300
Grams, Rod 7/17/2000 $250
10/11/1999 $250
10/10/1999 $200
Bush, George W 3/2/2004 $500
8/2/1999 $750
Gutknecht, Gil 7/31/2001 $250