In retrospect, the firing of James Comey as FBI Director happened about as fast as it was physically possible to make it go. Here's the sequence:

1. Congress did their best to delay appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. He was sworn in on Feb 9th, roughly three weeks after inauguration. Two weeks would have been typical.

2. Sessions proposed Rod Rosenstein for Deputy Attorney General. Given the highly politicized circumstances, neither Sessions nor Trump could move against Comey directly. They had to have a nonpolitical appointee evaluate Comey's conduct. Rosenstein has an excellent reputation, and would eventually be confirmed 94-6 by the Senate. But as far back as Mar 6th, Senator Blumenthal was vowing to hold up Rosenstein's confirmation, demanding that Sessions appoint a special prosecutor on the Russia file.

3. Rosenstein was finally confirmed on Apr 25th, a Tuesday. That's after SEVEN weeks of grandstanding and obstruction by Congress. Within two weeks he had taken over the job, reviewed Comey's conduct (including interviewing several former high-ranking Justice officials), and submitted a recommendation that Comey be fired.

4. Sessions endorsed and passed the recommendation to Trump, and Trump acted on it the same day.

This is lightning speed by Washington standards, and it was the only legitimate way that it could be done. For either Sessions or Trump to do it themselves would have cast a permanent shadow over the whole process.

If you look at this in context, it was competent, professional, and above-board. I expect further delays and grandstanding when Rosenstein recommends the new Director, and more Russia nonsense, and more tweets by John Podesta, but justice is coming for these freaks and it is coming very fast (again, by Washington standards).