Gonzales for Reid? Quoting WaPo Op-ed columnist David Broder:
President Bush’s highly developed tolerance for egregious incompetence in his administration may have met its supreme test in Attorney General Gonzales, who at various times has taken complete responsibility for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and professed complete ignorance of the reasons for their dismissal. This demonstration of serial obfuscation so impressed the president that he rushed out to declare that Gonzales had “increased my confidence in his ability to do the job.”
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But Reid’s verbal wanderings on the war in Iraq are consequential — not just for his party and the Senate but for the more important question of what happens to U.S. policy in that violent country and to the men and women whose lives are at stake…
Instead of reinforcing the important proposition — defined by the Iraq Study Group– that a military strategy for Iraq is necessary but not sufficient to solve the myriad political problems of that country, Reid has mistakenly argued that the military effort is lost but a diplomatic-political strategy can still succeed.
The Democrats deserve better, and the country needs more, than Harry Reid has offered as Senate majority leader.
Whadday say?
Thank you for your policy of denying the use of foul language in the comments section. I am, therefore, constrained in my response to this article concerning Senator (a disgrace to the title) Reid. How many ways can one say “traitor”?
Can we also trade McCain for Lieberman?
Reid can be, conceivably, censured/disciplined/removed from the Senate for his actions. And he’s accountable to his constituents (my mother-in-law in NV loathes him).
We have no such relief from Gonzales. He’s accountable to one person. We’re stuck with him.
Here you go USAF, let me show you how it’s done.
If Gonzales had any stones, he’d indict the Michael Foxtrot. Reid is not just a traitor, and a lightweight. He’s corrupt too. Take him out in the parking lot, and rub his face in the gravel.
The Las Vegas paper had an article about how Reid and Sen Ensign (Nevada’s Republican Senator) have a non agression pact. Both have agreed not to attack the other, on the premise that it helps them get state business done. Evidently some state Republicans are very upset about it because they see the opportunity to unseat Reid the same way that Daschle was unseated. Ensign defended the agreement saying it was what was best for the voters. He also noted he’s got plenty of other Republicans who can do the work.
For what its worth, I agree with Broder’s column. Both Gonzales and Reid have led poorly in their respective areas.
I find “small beer” only in his columm.
Gonzales just fired some friggin employees..big deal.
IMO, Reid is just helping to paint his entire party into a corner re Iraq. I don’t need a pencil-necked liberal like Broder to point out the obvious. Personally, I hope Harry keeps sticking the ol’foot in thar… I don’t want him to stop.
What’s blog-swarming? Netroots?
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007386.htm
BTW- did you hear my local stooge and Pelosi flunky, Steny Hoyer make the ridiculous comparison of GW to George Custer yesterday? What a buffoon…
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