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So yeah. A bit delayed, but Gonzales stepped up to the plate at Congress and whiffed at the t-ball about 50 times. "I have no recollection, Senator" is a great line from a terrible Clancy movie. It is not something we want to hear dozens of times about something that has very little relevance politically. This has become a scandal from mismanagement politically. Firing or dismissing public servants is done all the time, even mid-term. Did we hear a great commotion and moves to inquiry when Rumsfeld resigned? No we did not. This type of thing goes all the way back to the first great Supreme Court case of Marbury v Madison. Public officials dislike it when they are dismissed without a good explanation, in other words, they are fired for political reasons.

Where this is a problem is that it smacks a bit of the Executive trying to manipulate the Judicial. That's nothing new either. But it is rather awkward. Another great line, paraphrasing, "What they want is a court that will behave like a toy in a magical kingdom. A court that will do what it is told." Now there is every right to appoint attorneys and judges to serve in a capacity consistent with our political ideology. But expecting them to rule and act in a manner totally consistent with it is not in any way a right of the executive. It seems bizarre to suggest that our intentions are to appoint constructionist interpretations to be judge and then to turn around and tell them what sorts of decisions you want handed down by handing down mandates to the attorneys on which sorts of prosecutions to seek most aggressively.

Anyway, it just seems consistent with the adminstration to appoint yet another bumbling fool to a position of authority. About the only semi-intelligent people appointed was Powell to State. And he is gone. Conservatives like the guy at Treasury, I don't. He's another ultra-Christian nutjob. I think least he recognized that there is a growing gap between rich and poor, but whether or not that's within his capacity to resolve is debatable. Condi is fine except she's a East Bloc specialist during a time when we need an Arabic/Persian specialist. Great choice there. Don't even mention "Homeland Security". What a joke that is. When there's so much turnover in the Cabinet, I have to wonder why. I suspect there's always alot of turnover, but to have only 2 people serve the entire two terms in any capacity is a bit strange. Maybe it would be easier if I had no memory of such things and just couldn't recall basic things like they do.