"the icing on the cake" (ranking nation's top prosecutor Fitz as "middling")

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The attorney purgers also wanted to give Fitzgerald a poor performance rating -- but then they realized they couldn't, because everyone already knew he was one of the top prosecutors in the nation, so it would make their scam obvious.

Mary Jo White, who supervised Fitzgerald when she served as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and who has criticized the firings, said ranking him as a middling prosecutor "lacks total credibility across the board."

"He is probably the best prosecutor in the nation — certainly one of them," said White, who worked in the Clinton and Bush administrations. "It casts total doubt on the whole process. It's kind of the icing on the cake."

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_03_18_atrios_archive.html#117439396179975106

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1. Imagine

Anyone in the bush administration ranking anyone else on performance.