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U.S. Attorney General Resigns
willie3204 is one of many to mention that U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned. One of Gonzales' main opponents praised his decision stating that: "'For the previous six months, the Justice Department has been virtually nonfunctional and desperately needs new leadership,' said the Schumer statement. 'Democrats will not obstruct or impede a nominee who we are confident will put the rule of law above political considerations. We beseech the Administration to work with us to nominate someone whom Democrats can support and America can be proud of.'"
*yawn*
And he'll be replaced by another indistinguishable "long time friend of Bush."
At least Chertoff doesn't openly advocate torture... at least that I know of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
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Could someone explain to me what the big deal was with firing political appointees for political reasons?
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=saddam's+gen
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/17/opinion
Now, prove the flip side...that anyone in the Bush administration (besides Tenet, of course) actively lied with the purpose and intent of getting us into a war (ala Tonkin gulf) as opposed to simply being wrong when almost everyone else was wrong on the same data also. And when I mean almost everyone, I mean:
- foreign intelligence agencies (French, British, Russian, German, Italian, Czech)
- previous Clinton administration and US intelligence agencies
- Bush administration and US intelligence agencies
- Saddam's generals
- Ex-Saddam inner circle defectors
You had a lot of information coming out saying Saddam had WMD, was reconstituting his program. And you had his continual obstruction with UN inspections. There's a saying that goes...looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. Hindsight is 20/20.
Hardly. Bush's stance on immigration is not new; you also knew you were voting for a lazy incompetent in 2000 and a lazy incompetent Constitution shredding warmonger in 2004. No, the Republican party started verbally backing away from Bush when they realized that he was killing their election chances for a generation, nevermind that they backed him and his policies to the hilt. I say "verbally" because they still back him to the hilt on every issue except immigration.
Conservatism has failed America. Completely and utterly failed. Conservatives response to this fact is not to re-access their platform, but to claim that their conservatives leaders really weren't conservative:
Remember, Gore won the popular vote in 2000.
He also would have won the electoral vote in 2000 if there had been a statewide recount of Florida's votes.
With the electoral college system, living in a state that gets a low amount of votes (like Rhode Island) lowers the power of your own vote.
With the electoral college, the only votes that are fought for are those in battleground states. The rest of the country is lucky to settle for a visit from the VP nominee.
No he wouldn't have.
Yes, he would have.
The Dems of Florida recounted it three times
No, they did not.
The New York Times itself reported this.
No. What they reported was that if selective recounts had been done, is that Bush would have still won. If you keep reading, however, you'll see that under no scenario would Gore have lost a statewide recount.
Sorry, Bush DIDN'T steal the election.
Yes, he DID. Deal with it.