I’d like to inject a positive statement about our, uh, is this an “effective date” reignation in advance, or is he gone today? Is he our former or our soon-to-be former AG?
…anyway, John Ashcroft may be the finest singing Attorney General ever. I believe we will see him next on American Idol.
Of course he did. Leaving aside the HUGE issues of the Patriot Acts, worthy of threads of their own, His office provided bogus legal cover to many acts the Bush administration has taken in contravention of international law. There were a whole series of legal opinions memo leaked that the White House had to disown almost the moment they became public knowledge. They understood completely that the legal reasoning behind them would not stand serious public scrutiny.
You know, thinking back on it, I don’t think I ever had much to say about John-Boy, save that I thought him kind of a buffoon. Could you have me confused with some other devilishly handsome polymath with a rapier like wit? Rather a pity, that, to flatter someone who’ll never know…
Don’t even joke about that. I’m afraid if someone says it three times it will come true. [sub]Candyman! Candyman! Candyman![/sub]
I’m sure Bush will reach across the aisle and unite America with a Democratic AG… Zel Miller.
No. Rabies is fatal.
Here’s time number two: Bush is going to nominate John Ashcroft to the Supreme Court
(FTR, I don’t really believe he will, I’m just playing with fate or something)
You watch your ass.
Wasn’t that Ashcroft’s job?
Well, I’m giving first place to Ashcroft’s “We’re all safe now! thanks to ME and BUSH!” quote, but this one takes second place, from Don Evans, our beloved Commerce Secretary:
“These past four years have brought great progress in strengthening America’s national security and economic security, and advancing the global march to peace, prosperity, and freedom.”
Note to future departing cabinet members: Please, please employ better speechwriters. As in, ones that will write a speech in light of the actual events of the past four years, and not cause the average U.S. citizen (er…change that to average intelligent being) to laugh out loud.
ashcroft is out! and Rummy is up next! yay!
i hope…
fuck ashcroft, argh…
I don’t believe for one nanosecond–hell, make it a femtosecond–that Bush is insane enough to appoint John Ashcroft to the SC. However, if he does and IF the nomination is approved by the Senate, I’m going to simultaneously tremble with terror and say I TOLD YOU SO to the Bush voters.
As bad as Ashcroft is, he’s no Ed Meece.
Got that right! I despised Ed Meese and his entire family. I hate Meeses to pieces!
(All right, I’m definitely going to Hell now…)
Not if I had a condom made from all the rubber in India.
Tuckerfan, that one made me laugh. I’m going to have to remember to use that phrase. Thank you.
Here’s an unsettling possibility – what if GWB wants to appoint Alberto Gonzales as the first Hispanic AG? Do you suppose that fucker could actually get confirmed? I really don’t want an Attorney General who thinks that rules against torture are quaint technicalities.
Finally, our long national nightmare begins to end.
Course, Rudy’s almost but not quite as bad.
Anyone else hear a spontaneous outburst of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy upon hearing about this? Just me, then?
Don’t let the door hit you in your fleshy, facist ass on the way out, you freak.