Now, come on. I think it's a fun and snarky little dig to wonder about whether Bush will make Mukasey available to "liberal" groups but if it were the other way around, would we expect Bill Clinton to vet Janet Reno before, say, Focus on the Family?

...is that the conservative groups will probably get more honest answers from him than the U.S. Senate.

No, godammit, we would expect Clinton to vet her before the representatives of the American people: the United States Congress.

But of course, the Bushies don't consider anyone who voted against them to count, at all.

Is Mukasey blowing the whistle on anything the Bush Administration has done that is truly unconstitutional. I have a little conspiracy theory of my own that the reason the Bush WH is so secretive is that they have been breaking the law (or at least REALLY stretching it) and they know it.

Well, we all have our fantasies.

We would if Focus on the Family represented the party in control of both houses of congress and the sentiments 65%-75% of the American people in polling since before the last midterm election.

Citizen-X ... You're exactly right. What kind of sweet, evil deals are these people making with the new AG? Mukasey should be in front of all the people for these questions.

Where are the followup questions that these W.H.P.C. babies always fail to ask?

"Why? Why wouldn't Mr.Bush give "lefties" the same opportunity? Isn't this very situation why Fredo is no longer the A.G.?"

Then after her stumbling answer:

"What, are you suggesting that the new A.G. represent only the "right wing"? Isn't that what got Fredo in trouble in the first place?"

"Why hasn't the president learned from the last debacle that the A.G. is supposed to represent ALL americans not just the personal rantings of the current occupant?"

Pass the baloney...

I have no problem with this. See, since impeachment appears to be off the table, the best we can hope for is to so thoroughly disgrace and discredit the entire Repugnant Party before the 08 election so they're electorally wiped out by voters. Then, of course, starts the task of kicking the shit out of the Democrats, but that's another thread.

But with the GOP goal in mind, I can't think of much that's more effective than turning the reins of government over to the batshit-crazy fundamentalist Xtian wing. Let them choose their presidential candidate based on whether he would allow gays to marry at a time when more people are concerned about losing their homes. Let them vet the AG nominee at a time when soldiers continue to meet death in Iraq for no good reason. Let them make the GOP even more of a laughingstock than it already is (a big sloppy thank-you foot tap to you, Larry Craig!).

Then when the Dems mop the floor with them in 2008, we can listen to them whine for another 40 years while they wait for Karl Rove's illegitimate son via a jackal to grow to manhood and remind them how to win elections again.