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that he's a slicker, smarter, and more high handed and contemptuous individual than any previous Bushevik AG.
The surprise is that this is a surprise.
I have a very hard time believing that Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, his primary proponents in the Senate, didn't know exactly what they were getting with Mukasey. And I have an even harder time believing he isn't exactly what they wanted.
A slicker, smarter, and even more contemptuous AG. That's what he appeared to be at his confirmation hearing -- to anyone who was paying the least bit of attention.
What may be a surprise is that apparently he wasn't this way on the Federal bench. Or was he?
Was there really no hint then that he was so disinclined to support the law and the Constitution? Or were his peculiarities on the bench considered to be in the mainstream of jurisprudence and therefore not worthy of comment? We've had so many years of right wing ideologues and monarchists elevated to the Federal bench that a ringer like Mukasey might not seem out of the ordinary at all any more, even though, as we see him in the AG role, his views and beliefs and actions are outrageous.
