Sorry Jo,
Presidents get their own choice of AG, and they are more often political hacks as not. Google Ed Meese. And yes Bobby Kennedy took on the Mob when J Edgar denied there was anything like the Mafia in existence, but JFK didn't pick RFK because he was the second coming of Dick Tracy.

You don't like torture enablers as the top dog at Justice. I don't like torture enablers there either. But singling out lack of law enforcement experience given the history of giving the job to political operatives is just pissing in the wind here.

Gonzales already got tripped up on the law twice yesterday. Once by Specter re. the Patriot Act and library records, then by Biden (or Shumer, can't remember which) on what the Constitution says about judicial appointments (even though he had been briefed beforehand that he would be asked about it).

He also got caught not even listening to one of his own team when Lindsey Graham ended a long speech with a question and Gonzales was looking off into the ozone and didn't respond. Specter said there's a question, and Gonzales looked like a stunned mullet and had to ask that it be repeated.

What a moron. And a creep.

the key job of attorney general ricky ricardo will be to obtain the best mexican grass for preznit halo and his lovely wife lumpy. he don't need no stinking prosecutorial experience!

Appointing political cronies with no law enforcement experience as Attorney General seems to primarily the practice of Republican Presidents. Reagan's first Attorney General, William French Smith, had no law enforcement experience. Neither did John Mitchell, who of course turned out to be as crooked as his boss Tricky Dick.

Presidents get their own choice of AG, and they are more often political hacks as not. Google Ed Meese. And yes Bobby Kennedy took on the Mob when J Edgar denied there was anything like the Mafia in existence, but JFK didn't pick RFK because he was the second coming of Dick Tracy.

As mediocre as he was, Ed Meese at least had some law enforcement experience--he was the the District Attorney of Alameda Country, California in the 1960's.

RFK was Chief Council for the Senate Labor Rackets Committee in 1956.

The most terrifying thing about Gonzales is not his lack of experience or his specific support for the use of torture. It was his answer yesterday to the question, "Does the President of the United States possess the power to break the law?" His answer was, "Theoretically, yes."

Scary. As. Hell. Welcome to legal Disneyland, folks. Can we have John Ashcroft back, please?

Heh, Abu Gonzales, indeed.

The guy is a walking clone of W himself. Cept he's mexican. Even has the same fucking smirk. I wasn't aware that someones psychological dysfunction could 'rub off' onto another person.

Mot enjoyable part of the hearings: watching Lindsay Graham rip Gonzales a new asshole about 'being cute with the law as written by trying to get around it'. If you didn't know, Senator Graham - is a Colonel in the Air Force Reserve as a Judge Advocate General.

When it comes to matters military and military personnel, Lindsay always stands tall and firm for proper law, procedure and conduct of military men and women. He doesn't play the politician game. He might be worthless in most all other matters, but by God he stands up for our Bros & Sisters.

I will always respect him for at least that much. I surely can't say it for the rest of those gutless, worthless prick bastards in the Senate.

Blind loyalty to Chicken George is the only qualification one needs to serve in his administration. Condi Rice would have been thrown overboard on 9/12 otherwise.

Fair enough "Fair" Dave. But neither Meese or RFK were selected based on their resumes in Law Enforcement. Each was picked because they were political loyalists. You might ask yourself instead what was their LAST job before being tapped as AG. In neither case did it have anything to do with being US supercop. Being chief of staff to a governor or campaign manager for your brother means your boss was not exactly putting a premium on law enforcement experience when he put you in the top slot at Justice.

Packing the Appeals Courts with wackos? Reason for alarm and anger. Letting the President put his own choices in as Cabinet Secretaries? Something we wish the Republicans would have done when they were running the show in the Senate. Paging Lani Guanier.

Gonzales has no experience? What kind of racist, anti-Mexican thing is that to say?

/wingnut logic

This is the begining of the end for the Bush Administration.....they've managed to survive all the external assaults and keep the white house, but now they'll start to rot from the inside

Why are some of the senators who have vast experience as prosecutors on both sides of the aisle allowing this sham of an attorney and human being to be presented as the face of law enforcement in this country?

The very manly Alberto Gonzales has three things that most Attorneys General these days don't:

1) He is ready and willing to bury his face in the sacred crotch of God's Chosen Leader if asked to do so.

2) He's a Latino! Therefore, anyone who speaks out against him hates all Latino peoples.

3) His complete ignorance and disregard for the law gives him the guts to do things that would get lesser AG's fired.

Y'know the "we ain't Saddam" defense Bush used at Abu Ghraib, most Senators' reaction on both sides of the aisle are using the "at least he ain't Ashcroft" argument. And that's why this man will become the Attorney General of God's Chosen Leader, George W. Bush.

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Get him really mad and he'll go Ricky Ricardo on us. Imagine him going scarface off the White House balcony as well.

Bongzales is what AWOL calls him in private meetings. They live it up on skank commercial texican import and talk Enron.

Will Fredo get the office next to Ken lay? He has a sitting conflict of interest to preside over any Energy Task Force documents.

Hope the spooks lower the fucking boom on this rogue state White house. Nixon didn't tread water long on term number two.

Nothing in the U.S. media about this -- why?

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

A 19-year-old US Marine committed Òsuicide by copÓ rather than
return to Iraq, police said today.

Andres Raya killed one police officer and critically injured another
before being shot dead.

The gun battle erupted on the streets of the normally quiet
Californian neighbourhood of Ceres on Sunday night after Raya
apparently ambushed two officers.

After the initial ambush, police arrived at the scene in force. Three
hours later a second gunfight erupted, with dozens of shots fired.

Ceres Police Chief Art de Werk confirmed that Sergeant Howard
Stevenson, 39, was killed and officer Sam Ryno, 50, was critically
injured with multiple bullet wounds.

Police told the Modesto Bee newspaper that Raya appeared
determined to die rather than return to duty in Iraq.

ÒIt was premeditated, planned, an ambush,Ó said Mr de Werk.

ÒIt was a suicide by cop.Ó

Raya was finally gunned down as he ran towards a group of
officers, and apparently reached for a second weapon.

Raya returned to the US in September after spending seven
months in Iraq.

He used an assault rifle, similar to the one he was trained to use
in the military, for the attack.

Julia Cortez Raya told the newspaper that her son served in Fallujah.

She said: ÒHe came back different.Ó

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This is out at both atrios haloscan and on the Wes Clark support group threads...

Abu Gonzales is not only a worldwide symbol of torture - he was in charge of the investigation of Kerik that found nothing wrong! Even the mainstream media was able to figure Kerik out.

I'm assembling a Gonzales fillibuster collection, maybe you would like to add to it:

The Magna Carta
The Federalist Papers
The Constitution
The UN Declaration on Human Rights
The Complete (so far) Torture Memos, all 1,200 pages of them, including John Yoo's 34 page opus "The President's Constitutional Authority to Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them," September 25, 2001. This is the one that claims the President may deploy pre-emptive military force any time anywhere, on suspicion that those states are harboring terrorists. 34 pages later, it concludes that that in using his plenary power to use military force, the President's decisions are his and his alone and are unreviewable.

By the way, Leahy can't do it, he's got a sore throat.

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