When Amnesia Comes a-Callin'

I posted much of this as a comment at Next Hurrah a couple nights ago. The irk persists:

It continues to fester at me how delusional reality-averse rightwingers get away with trotting out the "attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President" twaddle, often trying (unsuccessfully, praise be) to use it to make the whole mess magically go away ("he can fire them without any reason at all, so there's no crime here").

How is this "pleasure" business supposed to have any traction at all when we apparently have inexperienced DOJ cub scouts managing the to-be-fired list and possibly acting as firing squad while AG and WH reps keep reading cue cards to the effect that the very same president was wholly oblivious to the entire affair?

For the sake of argument, let us say George has the right to fire a USA anytime for no or any cause he damn well chooses (not too different from common terms of employment in the outside world, come to think of it). How does that power turn up in the possession of a young green-behind-the-ears sprout at DOJ under circumstances where the self-advertised dumbest stump of an Attornery General claims what amounts to wholesale amnesia? Obviously we must conclude that a person with memory deficiencies like our little AG sycophant should not be holding public office, but we must not let him continue to take the heat here. There is serious crime to be found just up the street.