Clinton did it, too, right? Wrong!

In an effort to downplay the scandal over the Bush administration's dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, a caller on Rockford radio this afternoon said Bill Clinton fired "93 federal judges" when he became president.

Wrong! For one thing, the president can't fire federal judges. What the caller really meant is that Clinton replaced all 93 federal prosecutors, which is routine when there's a change of political parties in the White House. The Bush people did that, too.

What's unusual about the current controversy is that Republican-appointed prosecutors have been cashiered during a Republican administration -- apparently for political reasons. The suspicion is that these prosecutors were too independent of political influence in doing their jobs.

For more on this matter, read this and this.