Comments on: “He…demonstrated a strength that I had never seen before”

By: kritter

kritter — Wed, 16 May 2007 01:48:11 +0000

My hope is that no one comes after that makes Bush look good!

By: CaseyL

CaseyL — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:21:01 +0000

Let’s hold off on the revisionism, shall we?

Ashcroft was a disaster as Attorney General. He cut anti-terrorist programs during the Summer of Threat (even as he stopped flying on commercial aircraft) to concentrate on pornography, then tried to blame Jamie Gorelick for his own malfesance. He started the theocratization of the DoJ. He brought suit against Oregon to try and overturn its Assisted Suicide law, and brought federal charges against sick people using marijuana for medical reasons.

That he now looks better than he did isn’t because he was better than we thought: it’s because AGAG is so incredibly much worse.

Like Bush makes Nixon look good. It’s not because Nixon was good. It’s because Bush is a whole universe of bad.

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:46:34 +0000

> I canâ€™t help but laugh that he
> lost to a dead guy though.

I’d laugh if Falwell beat Hillary Clinton in 2008.

By: Robert Bell

Robert Bell — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:41:19 +0000

Balkinization has the funniest take I've seen so far ...

By: egrubs

egrubs — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:02:02 +0000

I didn’t like him. I’m not sure I like him yet. But now at the least, I respect him.

I can’t help but laugh that he lost to a dead guy though.

By: Rambie

Rambie — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:19:41 +0000

Jason, agreed. I was more ambivalent toward him previously, but I’ll admit I have more respect for Mr Ashcroft after reading that article.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:08:04 +0000

new testimony reveals = testimony reinforces
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2005_12_25_archive.html
Firedoglake has a posting from 12/05 about this incident, it isn’t new, Comey was a man of conciuos and didn’t fit in with the Gonzo gang. If the Repuglicans could bring the Comey’s, Kuo’s and Fitzgerald back into power their party would have a chance.

By: Pete Abel

Pete Abel — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:50:53 +0000

Jason — Agreed. Entirely.

By: Jason Steck

Jason Steck — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:45:36 +0000

I wonder how many other people from the Bush administration might eventually be revealed as not nearly as evil as all the piranhas on the left have been insisting endlessly for the last six years?

Jus’ sayin’. People are rarely as evil as the extremists from both left AND right cast them to be. A lot of the Clinton people turned out to be not nearly as evil as the anti-Clinton obsessives cast them to be. Nowadays, it is BDS is that at epidemic levels. I predict that some of it will turn out to be just as hysterically overstated as the mid-90s stories about Clinton.