Bmaz has written a great post about the coming right wing war against Eric Holder for AG. She cites how Rove has already rallied the troops and they are preparing for some grand old party style pearl clutching.

Bmaz and Looseheadprop have been leading the way in recognizing the risks that Holder is not quite the Attorney General we need to solve the simple problem of restoring the rule of law. It’s not like the lack of the rule of law lends great credence to the argument (made presciently from Paul Rosenberg at Open Left) that America is a failed state or anything…

Anyways, if Rove is to win this battle (what, democrats folding, I don’t believe it)…wouldn’t it open a gigantic opportunity for Obama to permanently end the Blago connections and general "corrupt Chicago politician" talk for the rest of his administration with a Fitzgerald appointment?

Other massive political assets this move would hold include:

1. It would be a message to our CIA agents in the field that he has their backs, and Obama could argue that this is the way a president really "supports our troops".

2. It would reignite the memory that it is the Republicans so corrupt that they committed what even George H.W. Bush defined as treason.

3. It is EXACTLY the kind of bipartisanship with the sort of Republicans who act in good faith that democrats should be engaging in.

4. It opens the door to explain how the Bush administration has been anything but tough on terror as evidenced by how they outed a CIA agent actively working to prevent WMD proliferation in the Gulf for political ends.

5. It opens the door to explain the domestic propaganda campaign that had engulfed the American people in regards to WMD in Iraq—which would compound his message of why he never bought the argument for war in the first place about a million fold.

And, perhaps most importantly:

6. IT SENDS A SIREN CALL ACROSS THE VILLAGE THAT SHILLING FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN WAYS THAT ALMOST GET CIA AGENTS KILLED IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE! Bringing the Valerie Plame story back with all the grizzly details about media complicity would be a permanent trump card to any beltway insider who was in on it. Any establishment figure involved in the defense of Scooter Libby—any—would permanently have their license to criticize Obama’s patriotism removed. If not, Obama could end their political or media career by spelling out the grizzly details of their complicity.

This post has so far been about the political benefits to Obama for making such a move. However, the results for the country would be even more incredible. Wouldn’t AG Fitzgerald press conferences be cathartic enough to actually convince our country (including bloggers like ourselves) that we truly have nothing to fear but fear itself?

There is not a person in the country that has more of a working knowledge about how the GOP media industrial complex works–and the damage it can cause–than this man. He knows it from the inside in ways patriots like ourselves could only dream.

With the post at AG and a proven track record of demanding accountability REGARDLESS OF PARTY, who knows what this hero of a prosecutor could do!So…if the democrats, like usual, capitulate on this one, it might just not be so bad.

After all, doesn’t Obama want to spend his political capital elsewhere, and shouldn’t he be enticed to open the floodgates of political capital by appointing this man to AG instead?