Letters to the Editor
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A brain, a heart, the nerve
Every president hires some friends he (so far he) likes and trusts, but this president's practice of cronyism fits the word's definition to a fare-thee-well. Alberto Gonzalez is a prime example--insufficient experience for his position, poor judgement, dishonest. Loyalty to the president who (along with Daddy Bush) has pulled him along and "made" his career does not qualify Gonzales to be attorney general. I guess that's now obvious to everyone.
It seems, though, that there also is a pile-up of what I'd call faith-based cronyism under Gonzales. Ashcroft got that ball rolling by kicking out many long-term, experienced lawyers to serve in the attorney general's office and replacing them with very young lawyers with one thing in common. They graduated from law universities such as Pat Robertson's. Graduating from a university that was founded to produce lawyers with certain religious beliefs and empower them to be "Christian soldier[s] marching as to war" (as the old hymn says) into our political and governmental institutions to "reform" them also does not qualify one to work as an attorney in our justice department.
Our justice department is a disgrace. It's just a political cluster you-know-what. This administration's got no brain and no heart, but it sure has a lot of nerve.