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The Mad Rush
Friday, 2004 November 19 - 11:42 pm
Boy, with the way Republicans are fleeing from the Bush administration, you'd think there was a gay marriage happening in the Oval Office or something.

So first of all: good riddance to John Ashcroft. This guy has done more harm to American justice than anyone I can think of. Wasn't anyone else creepily reminded of Orwell's 1984 whenever he cited terrorism as a reason for intruding on privacy and taking away civil liberties? Now, Alberto Gonzalez isn't exactly a champion of the accused either, but at least his appointment here means he probably won't become a Supreme Court justice.

Next to go: Colin Powell, who some say was the only moderate voice in the administration. This doesn't bode well for those of us who hoped for a reach-across-the-aisle approach to Bush's second term. No, it seems what we'll get is Bush pandering to the conservatives who got him elected. Yee haw. Powell's replacement is Condoleeza "Puppet Mouthpiece" Rice, from whom we all expected so much better.

Now Bush is rumored to be oh-so-graciously offering Democratic Senator Ben Nelson the (ahem) powerful job of Secretary of Agriculture... which would conveniently increase the Republican majority in the Senate, when Nebraska's Republican governor appoints his replacement. Pretty sneaky, sis. Yeah, no one will notice that.

Bush might be better off giving a post to Arlen Specter, who has suddenly become the GOP whipping boy for his honest assessment that anti-abortion judge nominees would have a hard time getting past a Democratic filibuster. Now Specter has had to do some quick butt-kissing to get the judiciary committee chairmanship. "I have assured the president that I would give his nominees quick committee hearings and early committee votes." Dance, Specter, dance!

Finally, something I think speaks volumes about Republican hypocrisy. After skewering Democrats and insisting, ten years ago, that anyone indicted of a crime (a la Dan Rostenkowski) should not retain House leadership roles, Republicans are reversing themselves in order to let Tom Delay maintain his position as Speaker of the House, should he be indicted on campaign finance charges. Republicans are now saying they don't want to let politically-motivated prosecutors play the "politics of personal destruction". Uh, hello, Ken Starr, anyone?
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Comment #1 from Javi (Guest)
2004 Nov 20 - 3:34 am : #
i don't know what this says about how popular culture has shaped my perspective on politics...

...but i - personally - have spent the last two years waiting for colin powell to come to his freakin' senses once and for all, grab dubya from behind while he is gleefully nuking some innocent and drop him down a bottomless shaft.

life would be SO much better if - even on occassion -it imitated star wars.
Comment #2 from Ken (realkato)
2004 Nov 22 - 3:50 pm : #
I would be very happy if I had the opportunity to bulls-eye womp-rats in my T-16. I hate womp-rats.

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