Mike--I'm sorry, Michael--Mukasey is a neofascist prick. If he'd been the opposite, he would never have been nominated for Attorney General in the Liar-in-Chief's administration. Under Mukasey, the Department of (In)Justice will continue to be a shithole of legal depravity.

The D.C. press represents the Establishment to Joe Sixpack, not Joe Sixpack to the Establishment.

... does she attend the "Magnate Middle School" in her community, or is she merely a standout locally?

Oh, by the way, he's also a Zionist.

After an extensive search and interviews with dozens of people, we can now reveal that Mukasey's favourite colour is black. As in Ops.

No word on whether or not he is an evil smoker. We'll keep looking.

Who the hell owns AP anyway? Rupert Moloch? Neil Buhs? A. Hilter?

Alberto Gonzales's loyalty was easy to understand: he and Bush were co-conspirators in their hard-right grab for power since years earlier in Texas. But Mukasey being such a lapdog and compromising whatever integrity he might have had beforehand seems different. Is he just that much of an ideologue, and finally has the chance to help push hardcore conservative "values" into the mainstream? Maybe. Or do Bush and co. have something on him...for instance, maybe he was Client 8. Otherwise, who would risk their personal and professional reputation to bolster the criminal policies of the most unpopular president of the modern era?

A stenographer on kneepads.

Glenn Greenwald, I have ordered a copy of your new forthcoming book from Amazon.com, I think it and all your other writings should be REQUIRED READING for the enlightened and informed American. I think it RATHER BIZARRE that sons and daughters of immigrants who came over to America to enjoy its freedoms not available in their countries of origin are WORKING TO CURTAIL & STIFLE THOSE VERY FREEDOMS IN AMERICA, THAT ACCEPTED THEM SO READILY! THAT'S _UCKING GRATITUDE FOR YOU, THESE UNGRATEFUL HYPOCRITES LIKE Mukasey SHOULD BE DEPORTED BACK TO THEIR REPRESSIVE COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN! THESE LAWLESS BLACKGUARDS like Mukasey, Gonzales, Ashcroft, Yoo, Addington, Bush. Cheney, Rice, Gates, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Hadley, Feith, Powell, Armitage, ALL Nazi-Fascist, Fascist-Nazi High War and Civil Criminals of Bushland Uber Allies PAST & PRESENT, MUST be CHARGED, TRIED & EXECUTED like the Nazi-Fascist, Fascist-Nazis were at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, the Japanese Postwar War Crimes Trials and ALL war crimes trails, THEY MUST BE PUNISHED, THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS FOR THESE MURDERING BASTARDS & BASTARDESSES! VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYETH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE & THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!!!!!

@Aycharaych, April 7, 2008 05:51 AM:

"I've raised the issue of the Hillary quote regarding she could envision a day when “you have to show proof to your employer that you’re insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,” numerous times on lefty sites and have yet to get anyone to reply to me in a rational manner."

Well, Aych, what I think Senator Clinton was trying to say was that she can envision the day when wage-slaves who don't have children with autism or some other pre-existing condition, compliments of the Croesusian vaccine manufacturers and their doctor-agents in the medical community, and who therefore can't get insurance for those pre-existing conditions, that that profitably insurable cohort will have to show proof of insurance to prospective wage-slave owners, who thereby will be relieved of a significant drain on their profits and consequent ability to make contributions to the campaigns of political visionaries of their choice.

Does that help you better perceive the senator's visionary health-care plan?

KR

Sen. Charles Schumer endorsed Mukasey before his confirmation hearings before the Judical Committee. Even when Mukasey failed to answer specific questions about torture and waterboarding, Sen. Schumer did not change his mind. I hope the voters of N.Y. hold Sen. Schumer accoutable for his endorsement of Mukasey.

@Kitt, April 6, 2008 08:05 PM:

"The desertion rate was much higher during the Vietnam era. The Army saw a high of 33,094 deserters in 1971 — 3.4% of the Army force. But there was a draft and the active-duty force was 2.7 million.

"http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-07-deserters_x.htm"

My best friend's brother-in-law, a B-52 Bombadier/Navigator, received orders in 1965 to participate, relatively safely, in the civil war in Vietnam. He assessed the danger to himself as small, but to the Vietnamese people on the ground, 35,000 feet below, as great.

War stats vindicate his assessment. Thirty-one B-52s were lost in Vietnam, in the course of flying 126,615 combat sorties. Over 1 million military personnel were killed in the war, ~6% of which were members of the United States armed forces, while estimates of civilian fatalities range up to 2 million. (See Wikipedia, et al.).

Rather than drop from a great height high explosive ordinance on civilians and/or on military personnel who had never attacked the United States, my friend's brother-in-law moved to Canada, thus obliterating forever any hope or prospect of his becoming President of the United States.

KR

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I was fired from a postal job. The orchards would not hire me to prune trees or pick apples in the seventies. The 10-point, disabled, or purple heart preference.... Was a attempt for a man-made law to be more Fair/Fare? Yikes. gads.

I became a Postal clerk and the union vice-president.

okay ~

One day a manager had bad breath. He violated personnel space. Management had a grievance with me? They said, "You wait!"

-Wait for what? kangaroo court.I slowly removed his fuzzy chin whiskers with a open palm of my hand hand. Breath stunk.

Management was not charged.

What was my offense? gads.

The false charge? Threatening.

Assaulting a Postal Supervisor!

A crime punishable by imprisonment.

Well. The short of it? I left the job and won. I did enjoy postal letter carriers. One whistled.

Mukasey was a staffer on the Giuliani campaign at the time of his nomination, working alongside such RW extremists as Norman Podoretz.

With that in mind, I find it more than a little confusing that Scott Horton, of all people, could ever have been convinced that Mukasey *might* be a reasonable choice for Attorney General.