Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Putting the dark lining in every fluffy cloud!

Pleased to see Ashcroft go? Alberto Gonzales is the presumptive replacement.
Pluses? First hispanic Attorney General.
Minuses? Um, well . . .
    ack
  • there's that part about how he thinks it's okay to ignore US law and our international treaties against torture (see the memo here about how the Geneva conventions don't apply).
  • he is the architect and defender of the Guantanamo policies that have been systematically repudiated by mutiple federal judges.
  • and I guess it might be subideal that Gonzales was a partner in the law firm that represented Enron
But all of this certainly fits in with the Administration pattern of rewarding those who commit crimes for them at any level.

Update: galiel over at kos thinks that the AG spot was a bone to Gonzales since they want to pass him over for the Supreme Court. Of course, his corollary is the one most feared by everyone sane the left: that the court seat is being saved for Ashcroft. [shiver]

Update 2:
a limerick for the nominee (via Body and Soul)

2 comments:

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