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Re: Bush the doof
What makes the Ashcroft hearings so interesting is that he, like his nemisis Jesse Helms, pioneered much of this "lets get the other guy because of his politics" attitude that he now suffers from.
The promotion of Judge White is a classic example. Ashcroft so corrupted the hearings for Judge White that every - read that as "every" - Republican member of the committe apologized for what Ashcroft did.
What goes around comes around. Let him fry in the same fat he created.
Will he be a good Attorney General? Hard to say. Little evidence, such as previous eqivalent histories is available. What were Nixon's AGs like before he 1968? There is your benchmark for AG corruption.
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