Gonzales Eight... Signs of GOP Cannibalism

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