“Pressing Mr. Mukasey” The End of a Regime Moves the Last Few Ponds into their Place.
October 20, 2007
The American Justice Department is on fire in the N.Y. Times editorial. The ever popular Bush administration is placing the last of there ducks into office, and where ever the “Left” is you know the “Right” has a few questions. The author of this editorial posed a number of good questions that should be brought to Mr. Mukasey by the Senate prior to waving him through the pearly gates, handing him the hammer of justice and seating in the Attorney Generals chair.
The burden of being president is something that I would never like to experience myself, but I will be obliged to cast a few stones of my own at this administration. Citing this article will provide me with some high velocity ammunition that i will aim at Mr. Mukasey and the Bush administration.
After eight years of a fumbling administration, I find it hard to accept any one that Bush would recommend for any political seating. So i concur with the author in not wanting to accept a Bush nominee, but it is a fallacy of division by assuming that just because Mukasey was nominated by Bush that he would be just as bad himself. However, the real thing here is not Bush, it’s Mukasey, and to begin the assault I would like to cite the author on of a few of his questions for Mr. Mukasey. The author asked, “The senate needs to know what he intendeds to do to set the Justice Department right. Will he lead an investigation of the still-festering United States attorneys scandal?” Now that we’re getting some were I would like to ask a question myself. What would happen if the Senate asked him how he intends to solve the Black Water scandal. They are mercenaries-correct me if wrong but isn’t that against the law-fighting right along side our armed men and women in Iraq, and I’m sure that they are making double if not more than the enlisted fighters for “FREEDOM”!!! I know that in a capitalist nation the governments role is more like a cheer leader for the economy than it is for justice, and the Bush administration has their “POM POMS” and “HIGH KICKS” stomping to the “GO TEAM GO” cheer for a few team captains in their back pockets, but how long can we allow them to taint our nation’s name with their obvious disregard to the law. I apologize for that tangent, but dose that question not fall under the Attorney Generals jurisdiction? The author posed another good one that I hope that the Senate felt necessary to address, “How will he ensure that his staff’s loyalty is to justice, not to the president’s political team-especially since many of the top lawyers are “loyal Bushies” hired by the old regime?” If you think about it, Bush is simply placing people into position that hopefully wont ruin all of his hard work when he is no longer in office. I hope that this wont happen, but theirs only one thing that I can do help prevent this from continuing, and voting is that weapon. So I urge people to vote, and not allow this problem to continue any longer. It’s in all our best interests to be involved with what our government is up to. So get informed and make decisions, be them for the Left or the Right you need to be involved.
