Thursday, November 11, 2004
Gutless, feckless Beltway Dems to give Gonsales free pass?
Back to business as usual! That is, losing.
Merciful heavens. If writing memos to try to justify rule by decree, torture, trashing the Geneva convention, stonewalling the Plame Affair, and pressuring the 9/11 commission (back) isn't "red hot confrontation," then what in the name of God is? The Constitution is burning, and these guys are fiddling and diddling!
Bush didn't pick Gonsales because He all of sudden turned from a vicious slippery little scut into a nice guy; He picked Gonsales because Gonsales would be more effective advancing his agenda than Ashcroft was. And that agenda, Senators Biden and Schumer, has nothing to do with the needs or the views of your base.
Further, in the Texas Clemency memos (back), there's plenty of material to show both Gonsales and Bush for the sloppy and lethal incompetents that they are.
The Democrats have to get used to the idea that the Republicans work all the time. The Republicans don't take time off because they got all emotional about the election. The Republicans don't take time off because, after all, the Senate isn't in session. The Republicans don't take time off because it's the holiday season. The Republicans don't take time off because, after all, the President just got elected and it's OK to give him some slack. The Republicans never stop, and since their goal is the destruction of the Democratic Party and all it stands for, it's really surprising, or not, that Schumer and Biden are so lazy and willing to go along.
Beltway Dems: Get a clue. Get to work. Start throwing some punches. Mark Bush up. You've got a base; start firing it up!
The guy who wrote a memo justifying Presidential rule by decree gets to be Attorney General? Tell me it's not a great country.
UPDATE And Vermont's Leahy dives in the tank. WTF?
Too bad there's no Club for Growth on the left to put a competitor into Leahy's district. That would get his attention.
And a useful Chronology of torture memos.
"I think he's a pretty solid guy," Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, said of Mr. Gonzales.
"There's a feeling that Gonzales is less confrontational that John Ashcroft and he at least tries to reach out," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said in an interview. "His style is not to throw down the gauntlet. So the White House has taken a step back from the red-hot confrontation that Ashcroft embodied, but we don't know how big a step back."
(via NY Times)
Merciful heavens. If writing memos to try to justify rule by decree, torture, trashing the Geneva convention, stonewalling the Plame Affair, and pressuring the 9/11 commission (back) isn't "red hot confrontation," then what in the name of God is? The Constitution is burning, and these guys are fiddling and diddling!
Bush didn't pick Gonsales because He all of sudden turned from a vicious slippery little scut into a nice guy; He picked Gonsales because Gonsales would be more effective advancing his agenda than Ashcroft was. And that agenda, Senators Biden and Schumer, has nothing to do with the needs or the views of your base.
Further, in the Texas Clemency memos (back), there's plenty of material to show both Gonsales and Bush for the sloppy and lethal incompetents that they are.
The Democrats have to get used to the idea that the Republicans work all the time. The Republicans don't take time off because they got all emotional about the election. The Republicans don't take time off because, after all, the Senate isn't in session. The Republicans don't take time off because it's the holiday season. The Republicans don't take time off because, after all, the President just got elected and it's OK to give him some slack. The Republicans never stop, and since their goal is the destruction of the Democratic Party and all it stands for, it's really surprising, or not, that Schumer and Biden are so lazy and willing to go along.
Beltway Dems: Get a clue. Get to work. Start throwing some punches. Mark Bush up. You've got a base; start firing it up!
The guy who wrote a memo justifying Presidential rule by decree gets to be Attorney General? Tell me it's not a great country.
UPDATE And Vermont's Leahy dives in the tank. WTF?
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying: "I don't see Judge Gonzales as being a controversial nomination -- at least not a lightning rod type."
(ABC via Froomkin)
Too bad there's no Club for Growth on the left to put a competitor into Leahy's district. That would get his attention.
And a useful Chronology of torture memos.
