…and good riddance.

Our beloved Attorney General, may his name and memory be forgotten, just resigned; he won’t serve a second term. No word yet on his future plans or his successor (a matter which concerns me deeply – Gonzalez, the current White House counsel and architect of various plans to thwart the Constitution, has been described as a likely candidate, and the others likely to be even worse) but I certainly won’t be sad to see him vanish.

Alas, a bit longer until he formally leaves office, so I can’t legally state what I think of him quite yet. But I’m thinking it.

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On November 9, 2004 at 15:02 troglodyteking said:

may his name and memory be forgotten
Actually, I think it should be exactly the opposite – may his name and memory be long remembered as an example of what should not be.
And to think I was happy when he was appointed because he was supposed to be a champion of states rights, small government, and Founding-Father-type freedoms. Boy was I wrong.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:02 troglodyteking said:

may his name and memory be forgotten
Actually, I think it should be exactly the opposite – may his name and memory be long remembered as an example of what should not be.
And to think I was happy when he was appointed because he was supposed to be a champion of states rights, small government, and Founding-Father-type freedoms. Boy was I wrong.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:06 zunger said:

Hmm… you may have a good point. But I suspect we’ll have more than our share of villains even without his example, and the most his memory will be used for is as a beacon to his ilk.
I never knew he had this reputation you mentioned; the one I knew about was as a religious nut. Interesting…
On November 9, 2004 at 15:06 zunger said:

Hmm… you may have a good point. But I suspect we’ll have more than our share of villains even without his example, and the most his memory will be used for is as a beacon to his ilk.
I never knew he had this reputation you mentioned; the one I knew about was as a religious nut. Interesting…
On November 9, 2004 at 15:12 merovingian said:

There’s the frightening possibility that this is a maneuver to get him on the Supreme Court.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:12 merovingian said:

There’s the frightening possibility that this is a maneuver to get him on the Supreme Court.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:13 britgeekgrrl said:

Short of resurrecting Geobbels, how could they find someone WORSE than Ashcroft?
I really hope we don’t find out….
On November 9, 2004 at 15:13 britgeekgrrl said:

Short of resurrecting Geobbels, how could they find someone WORSE than Ashcroft?
I really hope we don’t find out….
On November 9, 2004 at 15:15 zunger said:

Dear gods, I hope not. But let’s hope that the rumors that he’s leaving due to health reasons are true – that should keep him out of politics for a while.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:15 zunger said:

Dear gods, I hope not. But let’s hope that the rumors that he’s leaving due to health reasons are true – that should keep him out of politics for a while.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:15 zunger said:

*beats you for tempting fate*
On November 9, 2004 at 15:15 zunger said:

*beats you for tempting fate*
On November 9, 2004 at 15:17 britgeekgrrl said:

Good point. A thousand apologies.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:17 britgeekgrrl said:

Good point. A thousand apologies.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:22 stonemirror said:

They’ve got a better chance of getting a Kodiak bear thorugh the Senate than Ashcroft.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:22 stonemirror said:

They’ve got a better chance of getting a Kodiak bear thorugh the Senate than Ashcroft.
On November 9, 2004 at 15:27 zunger said:

I would rather they got a Kodiak bear through the senate.
(Frankly, given the way our Congress has been behaving lately, loosing a bear in there may not be entirely amiss – but that’s another matter altogether.)
On November 9, 2004 at 15:27 zunger said:

I would rather they got a Kodiak bear through the senate.
(Frankly, given the way our Congress has been behaving lately, loosing a bear in there may not be entirely amiss – but that’s another matter altogether.)
On November 9, 2004 at 16:13 aaangyl said:

Naw, them Kodiak bears have reputations as lefty tree-huggers. Maybe one of them Kenyan lions…
On November 9, 2004 at 16:13 aaangyl said:

Naw, them Kodiak bears have reputations as lefty tree-huggers. Maybe one of them Kenyan lions…
On November 9, 2004 at 16:17 stonemirror said:

They aren’t hugging those trees: they’re sharpening their claws on ’em.
(Where are the “People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants” when you need ’em, eh?)
On November 9, 2004 at 16:17 stonemirror said:

They aren’t hugging those trees: they’re sharpening their claws on ’em.
(Where are the “People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants” when you need ’em, eh?)
On November 9, 2004 at 16:22 troglodyteking said:

Well, he had that too. But as governor of then senator for Missouri he was known as a conservative of both the social form and the economic and anti-federal type. Then he lost the 2000 senate election, as the incumbant in the south and a Republican, to a dead guy. I am not joking. It was quite amusing.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:22 troglodyteking said:

Well, he had that too. But as governor of then senator for Missouri he was known as a conservative of both the social form and the economic and anti-federal type. Then he lost the 2000 senate election, as the incumbant in the south and a Republican, to a dead guy. I am not joking. It was quite amusing.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:23 adoor said:

i think this is tragically offset by the projection that colin powell will resign. so goes one of the last relatively sensible voices in the west wing.
rumsfeld is also expected to go, but i think they’ll just replace him with ms. rice, which would make history, sure, but would also involve handing the bush war machine to it’s biggest proponent.
sigh.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:23 adoor said:

i think this is tragically offset by the projection that colin powell will resign. so goes one of the last relatively sensible voices in the west wing.
rumsfeld is also expected to go, but i think they’ll just replace him with ms. rice, which would make history, sure, but would also involve handing the bush war machine to it’s biggest proponent.
sigh.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:23 troglodyteking said:

Nay, the Republicans would call the lion ‘unamerican’.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:23 troglodyteking said:

Nay, the Republicans would call the lion ‘unamerican’.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:25 zunger said:

Oh, I remember… and then got the Attorney-Generalship as a consolation prize.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:25 zunger said:

Oh, I remember… and then got the Attorney-Generalship as a consolation prize.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:26 zunger said:

Eh… Powell was doomed to go from the start; he was always very much an outsider, and being a sensible voice had very little influence. Rice probably won’t get SECDEF, though; she doesn’t have the experience for it. She’s made noises about wanting to go back to Stanford. But I’ve heard rumors about Wolfowitz for that post…
On November 9, 2004 at 16:26 zunger said:

Eh… Powell was doomed to go from the start; he was always very much an outsider, and being a sensible voice had very little influence. Rice probably won’t get SECDEF, though; she doesn’t have the experience for it. She’s made noises about wanting to go back to Stanford. But I’ve heard rumors about Wolfowitz for that post…
On November 9, 2004 at 16:36 johnnybrainwash said:

I vote for a chimpanzee.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:36 johnnybrainwash said:

I vote for a chimpanzee.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:38 stonemirror said:

Bush fan, eh?
On November 9, 2004 at 16:38 stonemirror said:

Bush fan, eh?
On November 9, 2004 at 16:38 thorfinn said:

Presumably Powell is going due to not being a fundamentalist christian nutbag… As for sensible, well, he is the fellow that created the situation that led to the My Lai massacre back in Vietnam. I don’t get the impression that he’s behaved much better since. He just shows up as sensible next to a bunch of loonies.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:38 thorfinn said:

Presumably Powell is going due to not being a fundamentalist christian nutbag… As for sensible, well, he is the fellow that created the situation that led to the My Lai massacre back in Vietnam. I don’t get the impression that he’s behaved much better since. He just shows up as sensible next to a bunch of loonies.
On November 9, 2004 at 16:39 stonemirror said:

Yeah, what the hell do you think you’re doing, outsourcing the carnivores we toss into the Senate chamber, huh?
On November 9, 2004 at 16:39 stonemirror said:

Yeah, what the hell do you think you’re doing, outsourcing the carnivores we toss into the Senate chamber, huh?
On November 9, 2004 at 16:41 zunger said:

Not in Georgia…
Personally, I like the poster I saw a few days ago: “Vote for Guy Fawkes – the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions”
On November 9, 2004 at 16:41 zunger said:

Not in Georgia…
Personally, I like the poster I saw a few days ago: “Vote for Guy Fawkes – the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions”
On November 10, 2004 at 00:13 tyrsalvia said:

Oh, good luck. He’s likely to be the next Supreme Court appointee once Rhenquist kicks it.
On November 10, 2004 at 00:13 tyrsalvia said:

Oh, good luck. He’s likely to be the next Supreme Court appointee once Rhenquist kicks it.
On November 10, 2004 at 08:27 grandmoffdavid said:

I vote for a bald eagle. That way, if they try and fend it off when it’s trying to claw their eyes out, they’re unamerican.
On November 10, 2004 at 08:27 grandmoffdavid said:

I vote for a bald eagle. That way, if they try and fend it off when it’s trying to claw their eyes out, they’re unamerican.
On November 10, 2004 at 20:06 efng said:

you evil,evil man. You scare me.
Alot.
They can’t make him 2 of the Justices,can they? Thank GOD they don’t believe in cloning.
On November 10, 2004 at 20:06 efng said:

you evil,evil man. You scare me.
Alot.
They can’t make him 2 of the Justices,can they? Thank GOD they don’t believe in cloning.

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