MSNBC Breaking: Ashcroft resigns

Just on MSNBC, Ashcroft has resigned, as has the Commerce Secretary Don Evans. More as it develops. If anyone has a link, please post it.

Update: He's apparently been wanting to resign for some time, but Bush wouldn't accept the resignation.

Another update, we've got linkage!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5498022/

I've been modding LBN for years now. The reflexes are honed. :evilgrin:

Wondering.

one good thing has come of this election mess.

You don't think Bush will appoint someone equally as loony? "When the Eagle soars.............."

sure! I want Ashcroft out as much as the next guy BUT I'm sure that he'll be replaced with someone just as fucked up. I'm not optimistic at all people. Please tell me why you are?

I'm scared as hell...

aghast at the protections actually offered by our constitution as John "Mein Furher" Ashcroft, well, outside of Feith, Cheney and a few other crazies, not one person I can think of could be worse. Ergo, any change must be better.

Those to the ultra-right of Ashcroft, well, even this brain-damaged congress won't approve.

unless,

Bush is truly the anti-christ and all those religious classes I snored through are coming back to haunt me.

I'm frankly afraid AshKKKroft is going to become an even more powerful figure in the "shadow government". shudder.

Too funny - (The singing part)

-P

Sorry to rain on your parade.

his resignation letter sounded like something from his bag of tricks -- the war on terror and crime has been accomplished -- or something like that.

perhaps there are similarities.

At least his penmanship is above board. Everything else, well. enough said.

Are they eating their own already? Are their resignations effective immediately?

and hookers. And stopping 'death with dignity'. And violating gag orders. And not investigating Halliburton. And haulin' the Ten Commandments monument across the country. And losing every terror related case so far.

They are very dangerous you know.

if tommy chong gets locked up :(

Fuck Asscraft

Probably just want to spend time with their families. Who's next is what scares me.

Who's the worst possible choice?

Falwell? Robertson?

Given Bush's other choices that one wouldn't surprise me.

Nothing would surprise me!

Fits right in with the Christian Reconstructionists' death penalty agenda: Kill homosexuals, blasphemers, heretics, witches, abortionists, idolaters, adulterers...nah, wait a minute--that'd be half the Republican leadership, huh? Never mind...

My money's on Rudy Giuliani. Gotta be some reason he's been kissing Bush's you-know-what lately!

Tired Old Cynic

:puke:

I guess he would be worse than Ashcroft, or at least as bad!

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The fundies fav prosecutor. Been an uppity-up in lots of the "religious " right organizations too.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/interviews/taylor.html

You heard it here first.

Zell. Miller.

:)

Hope he doesn't go to that tailor that sews bulges in the back.

Don't laugh - the man has ambitions and the best place to act on them is from OUTSIDE DC.

They're going to use Strom Thurmond's stem cells for Chief Justice.

And think of the damage he could inflict upon the nation in a short period of time.

And since the republicans, because of electronic voting machines, are now permanently in control of the government, they can just replace Ashcroft at will when he resigns or dies.

George doesn't do better. He only does worse.

Ashcroft was simply too dumb to be an effective henchman. They needed him for the fundie vote until now.

They are going to take their time until they can announce a replacement choice that will cause massive coronaries amongst as many dem voters as possible.

Ken Starr?

Smarter, meaner, and just as fundamental/sexually frustrated. After all, BFEE owes Ken for his work a few years ago...

(Oh, and, "Hi, all." Long time reader, first time poster.)

I like calico cats.

Don

calico cats? :mad:

No joke.

:eyes:

freaked out by their knowing glare and aversion to him.

Can we get an AMEN here?

:evilgrin:

But could we go from worse to worse?

AMEN! OH LORDY, AMEN!

If only he had thought of this four years ago.

now what will replace him?

on your way out.

another knife in the heart of most Black voters. We'll all cuddle up to him just like we did Clarence Thomas.

NT!

whose name has just escaped me.

Hell, credentials never matter to this bunch anyway ...


:shrug:


:hippie:

since you're right, credentials *never* matter to this bunch anyway... :)

n/t

It's a blatant move to take the edge off of some of the criticism aimed at the more extreme elements of Bush's administration. Ashcroft and his ilk aren't going anywhere. The fundies know that, otherwise they'd be rioting in the streets.

Let the EEEEEEAAAAgle SOOOOAAAARRRR!!!

It was just painful. Simply painful.

And the crisco! Don't know whether to laugh or scream!

Good one! :thumbsup:

His statement said something about wanting to use his "talents" elsewhere - why not a whole Ashcroft CD? Anything to keep him from Running With Scissors through the Constitution!

count on it

You know he's going to spend his free time bucking around Congress for the votes and confirmation. Count on it.

of breaking stolen election controversy and impending * impeachment...

Who says the RW fundies are the only ones who can pray... :)

GET THEE BEHIND ME, ASHCROFT!
UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!

rocknation
:headbang:

"Get thee behind me..."

-Paige

This is standard, many cabinet officials change for a second term.

Although I think Ashcroft is going to be considered for a judicial post, either SCOTUS or someething almost as high up.

Ashcroft is leaving because he is not in good health. Bush wants his SCOTUS nominees to be young and in great health. Ashcroft is pretty much finished in government.

There aren't that many dangerous crackpots out there that are on Ashcroft's level, but if there is one I'm sure the Bush administration will find him/her.

the damage has been done.

White House - AP Cabinet & State

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=10&u=/ap/20041108/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/treasury_official


White House - AP Cabinet & State

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department (news - web sites) official in charge of keeping tabs on the nation's financial markets, including Wall Street, announced Monday that he intends to leave his post at the end of December.



Brian Roseboro, the department's undersecretary for domestic finance, revealed his intentions in a resignation letter to President Bush (news - web sites). Roseboro, who has been with Treasury since 2001, was sworn in as undersecretary on April 16 of this year.

Bush would be responsible for tapping a new undersecretary, a nomination that would be subject to Senate approval.

The best I've heard this month

Oh! How I pray the Rummy the Dummy would be next!

What a jerkwad. Go away and don't come back!

david

Rick Santorum.......Gay hater extraordinaire....

http://santorum.senate.gov/

....shudders at the thought.

Oh, for those of you who still have a glimmer of respect for the ratbastard...watch the RNC clips of him and get back to me :)

Not that that's going to happen anyway.

I guess the best we can hope for is that his replacement is at least a little less uhm zealous. ideally it'd be some drinking buddy of Dubya's who just wants to sit on his ass and smoke ceegars.

The gay-hate agenda is afoot.

:)

My money is on Bruce Taylor - porno uber-prosecutor

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/interviews/taylor.html

eom

They have a majority, and they want to keep it.

Rendell would appoint his replacement.

about them putting in a neocon in who DOESN'T care about his image.

WTF? Isn't Evans an old family friend?

As I said above, they seem to have a higher turnover rate than McDonald's. Victory or no, old friends or no, I do believe that morale just isn't that great up in there.

Immediately, one hopes?

Does this mean Asscrotch can't block the FBI investigation into voting anomalies?

And interpret it the way our Founding Fathers would've wanted.

I guess I'm living in a dream world...the Bush admin. hasn't been doing so well in following the Constituion.

Sigh.

Bear those breasts of Law proudly for all to see!

:evilgrin:

Now we won't have Asscrack to kick around any more!

Bake

Hallelujah!

quit his day job.

even if they replace him with another smug sob, at least this odd fella is GONE


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HEY HEY HEY

LETTTTTTTTT THEEE EAAAAGLLLLE SOOOOOOOOOAR!!!!
And we pray your big ol butt gets hit by the exit door...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6446454/

<snip>
Ashcroft’s former deputy, Larry Thompson, is considered a likely successor, Republican officials have said.
<snip>

Aside from his nasty confirmation hearings, it seems like Asscroft has kept a fairly low profile. I know he was a proponent of the Patriot Act, but this was approved by a majority in congress and could have been filibustered by the senate dems. In terms of his actions as AG, Asscroft didn't seem to live up to his billing as the next coming of Hitler.

Thank god. Keep your "morality" out of my civil rights. I wish Ms. Reno's Parkinson's wasn't bad enough for her to step in.

Going to spend more time on that promising singing career, no doubt.

What the hell? I feel like I'm losing my mind. A little over a week ago, terrorism was the big concern. I guess we really kicked some ass in the last week.

OMG, no wonder he has to go. He fell "off message" and broke his crown.

What an irrational bunch these repukes be...and welcome to DU! :hi:

... and good riddance!

:evilgrin:

someone far worse. :scared:

Minnie is aluminum, a WPA artist's project.

I guess AsKKKroft's pancreatitis might be something far worse. He looks unwell. I thought it might be Calico Cat Scratch fever....

The GOP wants the African American #2 at Justice to move up, but some are saying it will be Holy Roller Danforth (former senator and minister, of Reagan funeral fame).

:shrug:

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!

How can someone not accept a resignation? He wasn't _allowed_ to leave? Is that possible? Or am I missing something?

-wildflower

When that is over, all bets are off.

Let the undraping begin.

the dominoes to fall,,,,, I hope!

God help us all

REPUBLICAN MARC RACICOT
Col. Oliver North became a controversial figure during the Reagan administration scandal known as the Iran-Contra affair. The scandal involved off-the-books efforts to fund the resistance to Marxian governments in Central America. The funding efforts became entangled in Oliver North's scheme to finance the operation with sales of cocaine in the United States.

Much of the operation coincided with the use of Arkansas airstrips in and around the small town of Mena. CIA operative Barry Seal was involved in the drug enterprise. After Seal was indicted, when the airstrips around Mena came under heavy surveillance, the southern smuggling operation was shifted to Canada and Montana. Barry Seal flew into the Canadian border area with Montana and North Dakota several times before he was assassinated.

The Seal flights were likely made to coordinate the new smuggling operation from Canada. Mike Huxtable, was helping with the flights through Canada, including both Chapeau airstrip in Quebec and another outside of Weyburn, Saskatchewan. The Weyburn staging area supplied "protected" landing strips in Sidney, Chinook, the Fort Peck Reservation, and Havre in Montana. Eventually hundreds of flights were made into Montana bearing billions of dollars worth of cocaine and heroin.

The safety of the illicit cargoes was protected by obtaining the co-operation of corrupt police and prosecutors in Montana. The coordination of involvement of the county attorneys in the scheme was managed by Marc Racicot, then in the Montana Attorney General's office.

Marc Racicot received payments for his efforts, which were deposited in accounts in the Norwest Bank of Helena. Marc Racicot took it upon himself to squelch investigations involving drug allegations against prosecutors in Sidney and Chinook. Many of the witnesses were intimidated and several died under highly suspicious circumstances.

http://www.copi.com/articles/montana/980505.html

Can't vouch for the source, but would you buy a used car from Racicot?

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6446454/

and if they move it again just go to the front page http://msnbc.msn.com and click the link for it.

Fuck this bogus Bush administration!!

Ewww... Is this from 4 years with the Bush Administration, or would he have been this ugly in any situation?

And that's a flattering photo.

My vote: this is the worst-looking Administration we have had in a long time (and I do remember the beauties from the Reagan era such as Schultz, Watt, and Gorsuch (Burford)).

I think it has something to do with your face revealing your inner soul (a Picture of Dorian Gray kind of thing).

That's why we have good lookin' folks like Barack Obama, Anthony Weiner, and Hilda Solis. :crazy:

nt

Ten (metaphorical, but still) bucks says the first official casualty reports come out of Falluja tonight or tomorrow morning - worse than expected.

Barely anyone reports it.

n/t

"Let the TIIIITTTTTTIES SSOOOOOOAAARRRR!!!!!"

but it looks like Ashcroft will be the next Supreme Court justice.

The next one won't be any better.

with pancreaitis he hasn't fully recovered. His voice is weak and he just doesn't have that "spring in his step." Somehow, when I think of Ashcroft, I don't see him as a guy with a spring in his step.

I would have loved to see Kerry's appointee as Attorney General tear down those curtains in the Hall of Justice.

now let's see the next dipshit shrub** finds to erode our civil liberties and dismantle the Constitution

so the rats are jumping off the ship early

Ashcroft, in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush, said, "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."

It was a brief outlining the different ways the Bill of Rights violates the Patriot Act.

Whew!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1351824,00.html

Ashcroft bows out claiming mission is over

<snip>
Mr Ashcroft, a hate figure among Democrats for his crackdown on civil liberties after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, has been unwell for some months, although he was thought a likely candidate for the chop in a reshuffle.

Mr Ashcroft, a former Missouri senator and governor, used a five-page handwritten letter to Mr Bush to claim victory in his front on the War on Terror. “The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,” he said.

Mr Evans is a long-time friend and former drinking buddy of Mr Bush who played a key role in his conversion to teetotalism and religion.

He ran a Texas oil and gas company before joining the Bush Administration, and managed Mr Bush’s first presidential campaign. His name has been linked with a possible vacancy in the US Treasury if Mr Bush decides to dismiss John Snow, the Treasury Secretary, but Mr Evans has made clear for some time that he wants to return to Texas after four years in Washington.

bwahahahaha!

My thoughts exactly!

I'M COMING FOR YA, ASHCROFT!!!!!

This will get worse! Why are you all so happy? It isn't as though this is a concession to us!

(punchline to an old joke, someone can probably fill in the rest)

to Brussels or Antwerp or Amsterdam - or wherever it is that they hold the war tribunals.

The Constitution is breathing a sigh of relief that this treasonous fellow is no longer in the Cabinet. Let's hope Bush appoints someone who actually cares about the law, and doesn't use 9-11 to take away personal liberties. One down, but we still have Rummy, Bush, and Cheney left to go.

Alex Hamilton
Impeachment by the People

....Wolfy!

How could I have forgotten that guy? What a piece of work he is.

Alex Hamilton
Impeachment by the People

and I thank you! Hasta la vista kiss my ashcrank!

:D

:dem: :kick:

on the way out.

On second thought, I hope it leaves a nasty bruis.

Worst. Attorney. General. Ever.

Until the next one, that is.

rcm

He wanted to spend more time with his stigmata.

the curtains hiding the naked breasts of the statue of justice will finally come down?

good riddance asscroft

Remember, there are still pending reports and other info that lay blame for the Bush administration's failure to take steps to prevent 9-11.

I wouldn't be surprised if those reports point to him as being particularly negligant..

...the mad scientist on the remote South Pacific island finally has the Hitler clone ready to replace Ashcroft.

I'm sure there's a far more evil nominee just down the pike, but for now, nothing but rose petals, hugs, and blow-kisses to Mr. Ashcroft on the occasion of his departure up out my life.

Don't let the door... you know the drill.

Lift the hood from the Spirit of Justice, and draw the drapes on John Ashcroft's reign of terror

Do you really think the Emperor will appoint someone who is LESS of a MONSTER, less LOYAL to the IMPERIAL FAMILY?

No, I believe that a "more Himmler than Himmler" is coming.

the Supreme Court of the United States of America...do you really think he'd give up that easy?