|
The weird thing about Ashcroft is his incomptence. Like, I hate his positions (for censorships, guns, government invading all sorts of privacy) but he has been utterly incompetent. Which is good and bad. On the good side, he hasn't fully exploited the Patriot Act and broken all the boundaries of civil liberties because of said incompetence. On the downside, America needs a good Attorney General and he ain't it.
You know how many terrorist convictions he has? It is (ironically enough, a French word) ZERO. While I don't think he should get those through the Patriot Act powers, he should be convicting people on terrorism charges as they do exist.
The other thing about him going is, he'll be replaced by Marc Racicot (pretty evil in his own way) or Alberto Gonzalez (you know, the guy who in anticipation of the Iraq War wrote a memo saying that the Geneva Convention protections against torture were "quaint.") Oy.
__________________
"You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say 'goats.'"
|