Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye When the Attorney General says the job is done, that's a really bad thing. All he needed to add to that sentence was "...to this point, but we must remain vigilant..." and 'blah blah' about keeping prepared and even stepping up. ****, even Bush was smart enough to say the job is never done.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye It is typical that a Surpreme Court Justice nominee needs to retire from one job before he starts another! IntheNet
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye Yikes. All we have to do now is dress Ashcroft up in a flight suit and get that banner out of storage.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye Dear God, Please, please, please, please, please don't let this be true. I know Jesusland would like it, but it would hurt Jesusland. Don't you love Jesusland? I do, and I want them to still have individual rights. Thanks MLSNHTOWN
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye Dearest God: Please ignore the prior prayer from MLSNHTOWN and grant Justice Nominee Ashcroft your grace! Amen! IntheNet
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye If he was nominated for the Sumpreme Court, it will get taken down (the Dems will fillabuster if it comes down to that) and any high profile nomination that fails is a body blow to the sitting administration. So if I was a Democrat, I would welcome Ashcroft's nomination as he will be defeated and it is far better than a getting a sleeper like Thomas on the bench (figurativly and literally speaking, of course).
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye White House counsel Alberto Gonzales is rumored to be Ashcroft's replacement. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...u=/ap/20041110/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_cabinet
I'm sure he's tired. He's also got medical issues to deal with. Had to have his gallbladder removed earlier this year. By the way, I think nominating Gonzales is a shrewd move by Bush.
Actually, Thompson would have been a lot easier and more popular politically. Now we're going to have a week of questions from the Judiciary about the legalities of torture. I guess that Dubya's looking to spend some of that "political capital" before Thanksgiving.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye Yeah, that makes sense. Replace the guy who thinks the Patriot Act was too weak with the guy who offered the legal argument for ignoring the Geneva Conventions.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye I'm not surprised you're backing Ashcroft for the Supreme Court, especially since the guy you'd normally support ("The Good Pastor") is pushing up daisies.
Yes, the Republican base was wholly motivated by jokes on an Internet soccer message board, the columns of Maureen Dowd, Jon Stewart calling Tucker Carlson a dick, and Tina Fey anti-Bush diatribes.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye From NYT/WaPo via Slate: Everybody fronts the resignations of Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans. Ashcroft has some health problems and Evans might run for governor in his home state, Texas. Bush praised both men. But one "longtime friend" of Ashcroft didn't buy the group hug. Ashcroft "was something to offer to evangelicals," the friend told the Post. The White House "used him, and now they're done with him and he's being tossed aside."
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye Also from the article I find it hilarious that Ashcroft reveals his paranoia of Big Brother watching him by saying he handwrote his resignation letter "so its confidentiality can be maintained."
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye Bit of a reach there. Wasn't he already working the WH when the Enron scandal broke? Yes, he did work for the law firm that handled the Enron case, but I haven't read anything to link the two. Maybe I just haven't dug far enough.
I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone of John Ashcroft's finest moment in the past four years: http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html (I couldn't only get the Windows PLayer version to work; you might have better luck than I did with the Real Player or Quicktime versions.) I hope our new AG can sing as well as Johnnie Ashcroft.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye I'm not worried about the lawyers who defended Enron after the scandal came to light. The lawyers who helped Enron cover up the scandal for so long, however, really bother me.