WE HAVE A WINNER
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This guy should replace Alberto Gonzales as AG.
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We would also like to know your advice for somebody like my daughter, who's going to graduate in two years, advice that you would give a young person.
SEC. RUMSFELD: Advice for a young person. Study history.
confirmation hearing than my candidate, Rick Santorum.
You’re a persistent cuss, pilgrim.
John Wayne to Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
...and nominate Rick Santorum after Bolton doesn't get out of committee.
"...and each wasted evening is
a gross violation against the
natural course of your only life;"
-Charles Buckowski
make Santorum the nominee, then Bolton the recess appointment when the Santorum nomination is stalled.
I'll back the 'stache against the entire confirmation subcommittee, 3 to 1. 4 to 1 if they allow bicycle chains.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
I like John Bolton and am sure he would make an excellent AG. That said, he would never get confirmed and nominating him would only provide the Senate Democrats another opportunity to bash the President and the DOJ in front of countless TV cameras.
The best course of action is to let Gonzales continue to answer any and all questions Congress may have. I believe him when he says that nothing improper was done in replacing the USAs, and if he is allowed to present the facts openly the American people will believe him as well. If he resigns, Democrats will smell the blood in the water and continue to dismantle the administration piece by piece. His resignation, combined with whatever investigations Congress comes up with next will eviscerate any power the president still has, and severely damage our country.
His resignation would be proof of guilt and cause for more oversight investigations.
would be acknowledgment of the obvious -- incompetence. Increasingly, Republican senators are coming to realize that Gonzales should go for the good of the Justice Department and the administration.
Hatred of Democrats should not obscure reality. It is beyond me how anyone could have watched and listened to Gonzales over the past couple of months and think he should be allowed anywhere near a management position. His performance Thursday was mindbogglingly pathetic. I don't recall..., I don't recall..., I don't recall. The man has had weeks to prepare for Thursday's hearing and he sounded like someone who had recently emerged from a year-long coma -- with about a quarter of his brain functioning.
Senator Coburn has gotten a lot of respect on this site, and it seems like a good time for the diehards to wake up and accept Coburn's conclusion that Gonzales is a liability to the administration and the nation.
The president has less than two years left in his presidency. It's difficult to imagine the downside of replacing Gonzales with a highly respected, experienced person of outstanding reputation who could sail through confirmation and salvage the current mess at Justice. (I'm not going to attempt to name people who qualify, but saying there is no such person is absurd. There are plenty of Bush appointments that have been confirmed without major opposition.)
Governing responsibly is not synonymous with picking a fight. Suggesting someone like John Bolton for AG is. There was one thing Gonzales said Thursday that made real sense: it's not about Alberto Gonzales; it's about the Justice Department.
Save the department. Replace Gonzales.
You assume this is an either or situation: either he is corrupt or he is incompetent, but he cannot be portrayed as both.
It may be that we on the right now sense that like Harriet before him, Gonzales has exceeded his level of incompetence. But bk is correct, the opposition will not permit him to be excused for incompetence, they will take it as another sign of victory, and that their jihad against the criminal Bush who stole the election in 2000 must be pursued until his impeached and removal from office are accomplished.
This leaves us with a Hobbseian choice: Defend an incompetent in office to protect others who are competent from legally sanctioned slander, or replace the incompetent at the cost of others who are competent.
Not for AG, but as a candidate for POTUS.
chsw
Please, just once, can we have an appointment that's based on the professional abilities and qualifications of the potential candidates, rather than ties to the bushies, fundraising contributions, willingness to uncritically toe the party line or the degree to which the appointment will annoy liberals?
You know, the sort of appointment conservative administrations used to make when conservatives were conservatives.
(Actually, it's unfair to say "just once". I think SecDef Gates was a very good, expertise-based appointment.).
you should evaluate the candidate on his qualifications and professional abilities instead of the line of crap the MSM feeds you. Bolton has performed well in all the positions he has held, and even in his last appointment at the UN, he had the respect of his fellow ambassadors. He just couldn't get past the vitriol of Democrats scorned by people other than himself.
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This IS a joke, right?
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see right.
Without Chafee to get in the way he may have a better chance, even with the dems in charge. I use the term "in charge" loosely of course. The patients are occassionally in charge of the asylum, but still nothing gets done.