AG Ashcroft Retires, Gonzales New AG

[MarsKitten]

Well at least he's not batshit nuts like the last one. But hell he's just pro-torture But thats cool, we get a sane, pro-torture, anticivil rights former enron defense lawyer.


At if this guy actually brings any terrorists to justice we know he won't coddle them well, at least I hope they're terrorists but no one could ever be found guilty if there were innocent right?

[Curtis]

Please tell me that English is not your first language.

Pretty please?

[Yoshi]

You really need to stop quoting CNN and the Washington Post if you want to make accusations against conservatives. They are much the same way Bush described Kerry: "If there is a mainstream, [they] are on the far left bank."

[Mman]

You really need to stop quoting CNN and the Washington Post if you want to make accusations against conservatives. They are much the same way Bush described Kerry: "If there is a mainstream, [they] are on the far left bank."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999148/site/newsweek

Pretty hard to deny that.

[Diff-chan]

He was a lawyer for the Justice Department, and he wrote a legal brief. If he let his morals or ethics get in the way of what is supposed to be a purely legal brief, then hes not doing what he's paid for.

Its kind of like a defense lawyer defending an obviously guilty person... its his job.

He was doing his fucking job. Get over it.

[Mman]

I do not care if it is his job. I still have a right to dislike him over the actions he took, no matter if it was his job or not. Kind of the same way I can hate the bitch that gave me a parking ticket, even though it was her job.

[toxic]

Can you hate Janet Reno for botching her job?

[Tracer]

You really need to stop quoting CNN and the Washington Post if you want to make accusations against conservatives. They are much the same way Bush described Kerry: "If there is a mainstream, [they] are on the far left bank."

Doesn't Tony Blankley write for the Wash. Post? I guess he's an isolated incident.

[MarsKitten]

How i see the biases stack
CNN = slight left of center
NYT = left of center
WAPO = right of center
MSNBC = slight right of center

Fox News = definite right
NPR sans Juan Williams = definite left
Bush2 = hard right
Dean = hard left
Which of these is a mischarecterization?

Okay smart guy what's a mainstream right of center newspaper that can be counted as a credable source. I've always felt the WaPO fit that bill. Obviously not, should I be going to Fox News for a crediable reference source on events now?

[Stone]

CNN = slight left of center
NYT = left of center
WAPO = (right wing, are you nuts?) maybe slight left of center
MSNBC = slight left of center

Fox News = right of center
NPR sans Juan Williams = definite left
Bush2 = center right (Pat Buchanan is closer to Dean's analogue on the left than Bush is. Bush disappoints a lot of conservatives).
Dean = hard left

This is all based on an American version of the scale. By European standards Harold Dean should have been attending political rallies in black shorts.

Gonzalez should make a fine attorney general. He's also fairly moderate - this was not a choice designed to appease real conservatives - Bush made the choice because he trusts him. We'll see if he gets confirmed without much trouble. He's also the first hispanic attorney general.