Regarding Gonzales's ever more likely successor

[Kber]

1. Who would we want?
2. Who would we settle for?
3. Who are we afraid we'll really get?

'cause it's starting to look like it might happen.

[liberalnurse]

1. I want Patrick Fitzgerald

O8)

[SharonRB]

2. Yeah, but we'll probably get.....

Harriet Miers!

[Fresh_Start]

4. Reading about Fitz, I get the impression he'd

rather be a prosecutor than an administrator.

[coalition_unwilling]

23. I want Ralph Nader -n/t

[WI_DEM]

3. with this administration who we get next is rarely an improvement

Is Condi better than Powell? Is Samuel Alito better than Harriet Miers? Is Gonzales any better than Ashcroft was? No we'll get somebody just as bad or worse.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

7. Unfortunately I agree.

Chucklenuts would probably nominate that facist, John Yoo...

[Matariki]

21. And congress dems will argue against him, ask 'tough' questions, then vote him in.

[Frustratedlady]

8. But do you see what they all have in common and want to please?

Georgie!

[never cry wolf]

18. But THIS time they will have to be confirmed by a Dem Senate

And a Judiciary committee chaired by Pat Leahy.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Judge Judy?

Judge Reinhold?

[Fridays Child]

6. Would need to figure out who is the least treacherous, among B*sh's cronies.

[Jacobin]

9. Jeffrey Dahmer

no, wait. he's dead.

They'll keep looking

[leftofthedial]

10. Heinrich Himmler

[Kber]

11. In my dreams

Carol Lam - to make up for her treatment

In my nightmares - one of the 3 people they tried to get appointed to the Federal bench who were even too extreme for the last congress.

The real question is who I'd settle for. I just don't know enough to make an informed guess. I was naive enough to cheer Ashcroft's resignation.

[Ninja Jordan]

12. John Cornyn may be a real possibility.

[babylonsister]

14. Ugh, NOOOOOOOOO!!!! nt

[atommom]

13. Whichever crony is next in line to be rewarded.

[Rageneau]

15. When does Bob Ney get out of jail?

[spanone]

16. Whoever it is, you can bet this Congress won't rubber-stamp his/her ass into office.

but....I'm an optomist.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Whoever I want or would settle for is irrelevant

Bush would never appoint such a person anyway.

I'd rather just impeach Bush and Cheney now and let President Pelosi pick the next AG.

[onenote]

19. My bet: Bill Barr

AG from 1991-93 under Bush I; only 57 years old. Currently General Counsel to Verizon. They'll try to persuade him to give up his big bucks salary (stock will go into a blind trust) to step in for the next 20 months or so.

[Ninja Jordan]

22. Nice call.

[Kber]

24. Sounds like Barr might fit the bill nicely for these folks.

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/16/2007/1511

Partisanship at justice isn't new
March 15, 2007
snip

That fall, Edith Holiday, secretary to the Bush Cabinet, asked Attorney General William Barr whether he knew anything about such a referral. Although Barr knew nothing, he quickly sent an inquiry to the FBI. Weeks later, the president's counsel, C. Boyden Gray, posed a similar improper question to a top Resolution Trust Corp. official.

Those queries and hints from above created intense pressure on Banks to act on the Lewis referral despite his opinion, shared by the FBI, that her work was sloppy and biased. After Barr ordered him to act on the referral no later than two weeks before Election Day, he replied with a roar of conscience.

"I know that in investigations of this type," Banks wrote in a remarkable memo to his boss, "the first steps . . . will lead to media and public inquiries of matters that are subject to absolute privacy. Even media questions about such an investigation in today's modern political climate all too often publicly purport to 'legitimize what can't be proven' . . . .

"I must opine that after such a lapse of time, the insistence for urgency in this case appears to suggest an intentional or unintentional attempt to intervene into the political process of the upcoming presidential election . . . .

"For me personally to participate in an investigation that I know will or could easily lead to the above scenario . . . is inappropriate. I believe it amounts to prosecutorial misconduct and violates the most basic fundamental rule of Department of Justice policy."

[MiniMe]

20. Recess appointment anybody?

That would be my guess. He would put up people that he knows are unacceptable, and then appoint somebody during the next congressional recess.

[Parche]

25. FERRET FACE

Its going to be this guy...........brother ferret face........Jeb

[Hubert Flottz]

26. Joe Lieberman.

Edit...Kathrine Harris needs a job...