Should we oppose Mukasey because he refuses to acknowledge that this Admin approved torture?

I think we should, but you must realize that no BushCorp nominee will acknowledge that water-boarding or anything else BushCorp has authorized is torture. If they did then they would be required to take action against the torturers.

Hell I am willing to oppose each and every person BushCorp nominates.

Impeach Cheney first.

...Aspects of his record, however, are troubling. As a judge, he was too deferential to the government. In the case of Jose Padilla, who was accused of participating in a dirty bomb plot, he ruled that the president may detain American citizens indefinitely as “enemy combatants.” His dangerously narrow reading of the Constitution was rightly reversed by a federal appeals court.

In a 2004 Wall Street Journal op-ed article, Mr. Mukasey denounced the “hysteria” of Patriot Act critics, and lashed out at the American Library Association for trying to protect patrons’ privacy. He also made the dubious claim that based on the structure of the Constitution, the government should “receive from its citizens the benefit of the doubt.” And writing in The Journal this year, he promoted the truly awful idea of a separate national security court that would try suspected terrorists...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/opinion/18tue1.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

NGU.

Its track record clearly demonstrates that it will do anything, say anything, and deny everything to advance its crooked agenda. It's the citizens who are supposed to get the benefit of the doubt, Judge Mukasey. That whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing?

ABC News actually had a visual that Mukasey nomination could be in trouble, which really shocked me. I'd really like to see the Democrats shoot another lousy nomination down, for a change.

his nomination. I count only four Democrats committing to voting no. Doesn't sound like "in trouble" to me. ABC is just trying to scare the repukes into supporting Mukasey.

This is an impeachable offense and I think should at the very least by run up the flagpole.

because he showed himself to be a bushie. and supported all he did.

I am with you!

but understand that we'll get a recess appointment for X-Mas.

abominable.

A president needs to choose the best he can find to fill appointments.

If someone like John Danforth is available, why would any Republican president choose a shitheel like Mukasey? There's a world of difference in our not being crazy about Danforth and feeling that Mukasey is little better than Gonzales.

A President Gore or a President Kerry would have chosen someone highly qualified to sit in their Cabinets, and would never have the problem of being on their third excruciatingly bad AG pick.

...which day-job blog post can be read in its entirety here, ahem...

http://www.johnkerry.com/2007/11/1/just-say-no-mukasey



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This past September George W. Bush, the President of the United States — a position that, prior to his ascendancy at least, was generally seen as also being the nominal leader of the free world — nominated Michael Mukasey to replace his deposed crony Alberto Gonzales as U.S. Attorney General.

Mr. Gonzales, as you may recall, resigned his office under a dark cloud of accusations that included mendacity, arrogance, incompetence, and consistently putting partisan politics before public policy.

More to the point, in hearings before Congress Mr. Gonzales displayed a stubborn insistence on protecting the expansion of arbitrary presidential authority without accountability, and he repeatedly refused to condemn the use of extreme interrogation techniques like waterboarding as illegal and immoral actions that violate our best values and traditions.

And now this morning George W. Bush, the ultimate Roadblock Republican, the Obstructionist-in-Chief, petulantly accused Democrats of emboldening the terrorists and putting America’s security on the chopping block should they fail to confirm Mr. Mukasey’s nomination, thus leaving us without an Attorney General at a time when we are perched on the brink of a nuclear World War III in the Middle East. And so forth.

Mr. Mukasey, as you may recall, in hearings before Congress has displayed a stubborn insistence on protecting the expansion of arbitrary presidential authority without accountability, and he has repeatedly refused to condemn the use of extreme interrogation techniques like waterboarding as illegal and immoral actions that violate best values and traditions.

If this was the plot of a Tom Clancy novel, it might be fascinating to read but nobody would think it could ever happen in America. Unfortunately, this isn’t fiction. It’s real life, coming to you courtesy of the single most mendacious, arrogant, and imperialistic administration in our nation’s history.

Not surprisingly, Senator Kerry has no intention of allowing Mr. Mukasey to be confirmed as U.S. Attorney General:



Also not surprisingly, seeing that their choice for another complicit AG is in danger of being turned down, the Roadblock Republicans have turned to their minions in the media and their spokesbots in the conservative blogosphere for a full-court press in defense of Mr. Mukasey’s nomination. Their standard combination of obstructionism and obfuscation has managed to muddy the waters for many of their viewers/readers, leading liberal blogger and longtime Democratic activist Casey Morris to boil it back down to a more concise clarity in this post from the Democracy Cell Project website:




We agree with Casey Morris that allowing Mr. Mukasey to become the next U.S. Attorney General would be just all kinds of wrong — and so do Senator Kerry, Senator Kennedy, Senator Biden, Senator Durbin, Senator Whitehouse, and an ever-growing list of other Senators and Representatives who believe that it’s high time to rein in the Bush administration’s rampant excesses and kick the Roadblock Republicans back to the curb where they belong.



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