Letters to the Editor
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"Did -- does -- Mukasey really need this job? It wouldn't seem so. So what's in it for him to risk the respect of his peers for so little reward?"
Back to the discussion between bystander and Jack Hughes...
and my addition of political allies.
Why couldn't Mukasey also have been a victim of the WH's active listening program?
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why Mukasey wants the job
Did -- does -- Mukasey really need this job? It wouldn't seem so. So what's in it for him to risk the respect of his peers for so little reward? Does he actually believe what what he's saying here? Could he be thinking that no one of significance will notice? Who was he, who is he? Clearly I'm missing something in this story, but I honestly haven't a clue what it is.
-- William Timberman
Mukasey is very strongly anti-Muslim and pro-Israel. He believes that the War on Terror is necessary and good. I'm pretty sure he feels he is doing the Right Thing in fighting the evil guys.
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The who of it?
He's very close with Rudy (since the 70's) and Rudy was a favorite to be the nominee. Being friends with Rudy is bad enough.
Barrett in the Village Voice:
The Democrats who questioned attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey at his recent Senate confirmation hearing outdid one another in a frustrating effort to get the former judge to assert his independence from the Bush White House. With his predecessor, Bush pal Alberto Gonzales, finally forced from office, the senators were hoping for a nominee with fewer complicating relationships.
Fat chance. The question for Mukasey is not what he'll do at Justice for the soon-to-be- departing Republican president, but what he'll do for the putative next one, his lifelong friend Rudy Giuliani. Mukasey and Giuliani were young federal prosecutors together in the early 1970s and then practiced at the same Manhattan law firm, Patterson Belknap, where Mukasey returned in 2006 when he retired after 18 years on the federal bench in New York. Giuliani chose Mukasey to swear him in at his inaugurals in 1994 and 1998...
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0744,barrett,78212,6.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/washington/29giuliani.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Mukasey Papers Cite Giuliani Friendship
Nominee Recused Himself From Cases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202169.html
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so, the political class is amoral, corrupt, yes, evil!
so what? as long as the american public watches, cow-eyed, or just flips to the sports channel, this behavior works and it will just get worse.
the political class is all those things, because the under-class is too dim, ignorant or frightened to see the need for change.
no one can expect the republican party to call for democracy, but it is strange that a 'democrat' party is equally silent. yes, even 'saint' obama wants to be president a whole lot more than he wants to make significant change in the way things get done in the beltway
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Anonymust. I agree?
Comfort us.? You are not Salon's mom. Kitt has not sobbed hysterically yet.
Readers have not belched uproars of oh, ghastly hiccups. We admit bewilderment.
Matter-of-fact, and quite frankly, as Derbig Mooser admitted... Is the ER mental ward next?
Will the Attorney General of the United States tell the citizens where to get a waterproof donut?
We need to pack chocolate eclairs in a brown paper bag? Act incurious? Do we look gaunt? Oy!
As someone said today. They dreamed they looked into a mirror to see a burnt marshmallow.
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The Most Disturbing Thing
Mukasey not getting the facts or the law straight.
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Yikes, GC!
Salon's mom?! No way... childhood flashbacks of the old woman who lived in a shoe.
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Al Loomis
so, the political class is amoral, corrupt, yes, evil!
so what? as long as the american public watches, cow-eyed, or just flips to the sports channel, this behavior works and it will just get worse.
-- al loomis
What is the purpose of that sort of commentary? If it weren't for Glenn posting what he has posted today and other days I would know less than I know, and so would many other people. Should no one make any attempt to learn what is happening, who is responsible for it, and what can be done about it?
I'm learning to play banjo. I'm only as accomplised as the time I've so far been able put into it. I aspire to learn to play well. I'll do that only if I dedicate myself to spending the time that it will take to become more accomplished. And then I'll just keep on learning from there, probably for the rest of my life. Or, I could just not bother about it because it's too hard or some crap like that.
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Way, way O/T, but it's the week-end, right?
I felt like crying when I watched THIS.
Yes, I know, that makes me a girlie man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
Not sure which blog I initially found it on...
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Contempt -- a mental disease of many elites
...what's in it for [Mukasey] to risk the respect of his peers for so little reward? Does he actually believe what what he's saying here? Could he be thinking that no one of significance will notice? Who was he, who is he? Clearly I'm missing something in this story, but I honestly haven't a clue what it is. -- William Timberman
Mukasey is very strongly anti-Muslim and pro-Israel. He believes that the War on Terror is necessary and good. I'm pretty sure he feels he is doing the Right Thing in fighting the evil guys. -- Svensker
And as a respectable ultra-conservative jurist, he probably has about the same respect for the average American as our own al loomis above. One of the very few things that consistently underpins the worldviews of the conservatives I know personally is their very negative take on the capabilities of their fellow man -- intellectual capabilities, moral capabilities -- you name it. It's much easier to lie in public if you suffer from the bone-deep belief that most of your audience consists of a inferior sort of man.
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@LWM, from the last thread
You may not have seen this:
An interesting answer, LWM
Irrelevant to my point, really, but a good true answer nevertheless.
and this:
Since you're still here: I found the poem to which I referred:
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protestor to burn the flag.
- Father Dennis Edward O'Brian, USMC (often incorrectly attributed to Charles M. Province)"
Author: - Father Dennis Edward O'Brian, USMC
THIS is offensive soldier worship.