The Bush Shakeup

BPSCG said:
Hmmm.

So here's Ashcroft, trying to make an announcement about dealing with terrorists. Meanwhile, photographers acting like a bunch of 15-year-olds are writhing around on the floor trying to get an ironic shot.

(...whisper...) "Hey, man, knock it off - he's talking about the Justice Department taking down a bunch of terrorists."

"Who cares, man? I'm getting a great tittie shot!"

Regardless of how puritanical you might or might not be, how long would you put up with this juvenile behavior?

IMHO, he should have simply barred the photographers involved from future press conferences as being too disruptive.
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Or simply required all photographers to take pictures from designated areas that would preclude the possibility of an "ironic" shot. I'm sure that a deft public relations person could've even made such a move seem like a normal occurence.
 
By the way, Ashcroft was the first to go -- any speculation on others and their replacements?
 
Well of course Powell will (at long last) leave. For four years, Powell, an "affirmative action" appointee (does anyone but me remember the Barrack Obama-like media hype for him when he was appointed?) has been the weak link in the Bush cabinet. Usually, he represented the entrenched internationalist State Department to the president, instead of (properly) the other way around.
 
Patrick said:
Well of course Powell will (at long last) leave. For four years, Powell, an "affirmative action" appointee (does anyone but me remember the Barrack Obama-like media hype for him when he was appointed?) has been the weak link in the Bush cabinet. Usually, he represented the entrenched internationalist State Department to the president, instead of (properly) the other way around.
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Sometimes it's actually good for a president to not be surrounded by "yes men" who won't point out flaws in policy.

Amazing coincidence: Patrick doesn't like the black man in the cabinet! What are the odds?
 
Patrick said:
Well of course Powell will (at long last) leave. For four years, Powell, an "affirmative action" appointee (does anyone but me remember the Barrack Obama-like media hype for him when he was appointed?) has been the weak link in the Bush cabinet. Usually, he represented the entrenched internationalist State Department to the president, instead of (properly) the other way around.
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Out of curiousity, Patrick, are there any blacks in high places you do have respect for?
 
Out of curiousity, Patrick, are there any blacks in high places you do have respect for?

Sure - Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts. But what if there weren't any I had respect for?

Liberalthink: it is required that there be a certain "quota" of blacks in high places you have respect for.

Rationality: respect is given to those who earn it, regardless of race, and if that means all whites, or all blacks, something in between, let the chips fall where they may.
 
Re: Re: Reno

aerocontrols said:
Originally posted by nightwind
and the relentless pursuit in her past of a person who in my view was obviously a victim of false accusations of abuse, made me have a very negative attitude towards her in some respects.
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Never heard about this, I don't think.
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Try this:
Grant Snowden was a police officer, named North Miami Officer of the year in 1983, whose wife had provided day care in their home for 15 years. Under relentless pressure from Reno's office (he was prosecuted a second time, after the first case was thrown out) Snowden was railroaded on spurious charges of sexually abusing a four year old and her 6 month old brother. Key to the conviction was the testimony of self-styled child-abuse experts Laurie and Joseph Braga (she had a PhD in speech, he in education)whom Reno installed in the D.A.'s office, complete with a special interrogation room for small children, from whom they elicited preposterous charges. Snowden was given five life sentences and served twelve years. Thanks to the well known efforts of the Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz and the unsung dedication of attorney Robert Rosenthal, a federal court of appeals finally overturned Snowden's conviction in 1998.
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Link:
 
The Associated Press story reports something that other news sources also mention:
For instance, Gonzales publicly defended the administration's policy — essentially repudiated by the Supreme Court and now being fought out in the lower courts — of detaining certain terrorism suspects for extended periods without access to lawyers or courts.

He also wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human rights groups, which said it helped led to the type of abuses uncovered in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
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It has been speculated that Gonzales would have difficulty receiving Senate confirmation for a Supreme Court seat because of his pro-torture memo.

If Gonzales gets confirmation for the position of Attorney General, there is a better chance that he could also get confirmed for the Supreme Court.

So if Gonzales passes his first Senate test, look for Gonzales to be named as a nominee when there is an opening on the Supreme Court.
 
Grammatron said:
Based on the end of the first page and the second page of that article I don't think I like him.
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Same here.

His pro-torture position really disturbs me.

I've read about him before, and I've never liked the guy.
 
Gonzales also is a former partner in the Houston law firm Vinson and Elkins, which represented Enron.
 
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