Americans rest so easily knowing that Attorney General Eric Holder heads up such a stellar Justice Department, as witnessed by its failing to take the default judgement in the Black Panther voter intimidation case and by his condemnation of Arizona’s recent immigration check legislation without even reading it, that it makes perfect sense the request to appoint a special prosecutor to look into allegations made by Representative Joe Sestak that the White House offered him a job to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Arlen Specter is being stonewalled. 

“We assure you that the Department of Justice takes very seriously allegations of criminal conduct by public officials,” Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich told [R-CA Representative Darrell] Issa in a letter. “All such matters are reviewed carefully by career prosecutors and law enforcement agents, and appropriate action, if warranted, is taken.”

Weich said a special prosecutor won’t be needed because the Justice Department “has a long history of handling investigations of high level officials professionally and independently, without the need to appoint a special counsel.”

It makes perfect sense to have those who would likely be involved in what is an impeachable offense do the investigation of wrong-doing, doesn’t it?  Rather like the mother of the school bully being called into the principal’s office to make the decision as to whether or not her child sucker-punched another child.

And it’s just another day in Chicago….