Former interim U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin tearily announced Thursday that public service is, "not worth it." Griffin was named to replace Bud Cummins after Cummins was fired by the Bush administration along with seven other U.S. Attorneys.
Griffin addressed a lunchtime audience at the Clinton School of Public service Thursday, sometimes crying as he said he had no plans to return to politics. The Justice Department has drawn strident criticism from Democrats and Republicans for appointing Griffin and other replacement prosecutors without Senate hearings and is accused of inserting political partisans in those jobs.
Pardon us if we don’t have a gushing outpouring of sympathy for Tim. It is hardly possible that he doesn’t know what he’s been a part of. He was on the Bush/Gore 2000 recount team with Mark Hearne. He was in the Bush 2004 voter research group with Monica Goodling and Sara Taylor. It’s not possible that he doesn’t know he displaced Bud Cummins, a solid Federal Prosecutor [who thought it was worth it]. And when he bragged to colleagues that he didn’t have to get confirmed by the Senate, he must’ve thought it was worth it. And, by the way, there’s this business of "caging" that he seems to have been right in the middle of.
So his comment, "it’s not worth it" might be better stated, "he’s not worthy of it." No tears being shed here for Tim’s shameful behavior and early departure from public life. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out…
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