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the abolition of the Department of Justice and remaking it from the ground up. It has been so thoroughly corrupted and politicized during the Bushevik reign that I don't honestly think it can be redeemed by putting a different head on its putrid and rotten body.
Holder has flaws like anyone else who comes from that melieu (let's not kid ourselves into believing that the corruption of Justice began with the Busheviks, ha ha ha ha) but he could be the right person to guide and oversee a complete redo of the Department -- if any such thing were being considered by the Obama Administration and the new Congress.
Risks are many; necessity may will out nonetheless.
Any preservation of the status quo will not fix things that have gone wrong at Justice.
So far, Obama seems to be intent on stabilizing and reinforcing the Big Picture status quo. "Change" is for the margins, if that.
So I'm not expecting much from Holder.
On the other hand, if the Rs are true to form, Holder won't get through the Senate confirmation process...
