[lbo-talk] RE: Ashcroft was too liberal?

[Gary Mongiovi]

This is a gift to the Dems if they have the stones to make anything out of it. Gonzales drafted the legal justification for prisoner abuse that embarrassed the administration when the Abu Ghraib news broke. Bush seems to be daring the senate Dems to make something out of it. They should, first because Gonzales is, if that were possible, an even more repugnant thug than Ashcroft, but also because the Dems can win this one: last time I looked a lot of Rebublicans were disgusted over the administration's complicity in the prisoner abuse scandal, and Gonzales's role in particular. Perhaps it's not quite a "slam dunk"; but if Bush is asking to have a chip knocked off his shoulder this soon after the election, the Dems ought to oblige him and see if they can recover some of their spine (such as it is).  

 
Gary  

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	Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:53:45 -0800 (PST)

	From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>

	Subject: [lbo-talk] Ashcroft was too liberal?

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	``President Bush has chosen White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to

	succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, sources close to Bush have

	told The Associated Press...''

	

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	Alberto Gonzales of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and US Patriot Act

	fame.. So does this mean Ashcroft was too liberal? I don't get it.

	

	CG

	

	

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