The Crisco Kid slides out of town!
That's right, every lefty's favorite freedom-hating protofascist, John "Call me General" Ashcroft resigned his position yesterday as head of the US Department of Justice.
Some of the names being floated around as possible replacements are not exactly heartening (say, political weasel and former Montana governor Marc Racicot), but one is truly chilling: White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales. Gonzales is generally held to be one of the prime architects of the slippery (and probably ultimately erroneous) legal arguments that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those the President deems "enemy combatants." These arguments helped pave the way for the barbarities of Abu Ghraib.
C'mon, Dubya, even Grover Cleveland knew the rule that applies here: "A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out."
Some of the names being floated around as possible replacements are not exactly heartening (say, political weasel and former Montana governor Marc Racicot), but one is truly chilling: White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales. Gonzales is generally held to be one of the prime architects of the slippery (and probably ultimately erroneous) legal arguments that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those the President deems "enemy combatants." These arguments helped pave the way for the barbarities of Abu Ghraib.
C'mon, Dubya, even Grover Cleveland knew the rule that applies here: "A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out."
posted by The Malcontent at 9:41 AM
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