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Would you like to see Orrin Hatch replace John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General?
KSL Radio ^ | 11/9/2004 | The Doug Wright Show

Posted on 11/09/2004 12:46:24 PM PST by JCEccles

KSL Radio "Unofficial" Online Poll

Q: Would you like to see Orrin Hatch replace John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General?

73% : Yes

27% : No



TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: ashcroft; attorneygeneral; cabinet; hatch
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To: JCEccles

No. He wants to be loved by the New York Times and is teddy Kennedy's "best friend".


101 posted on 11/09/2004 1:57:27 PM PST by YankeeFan
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To: milford421
I don't want to see Ashcroft replaced at all.

The rumor is, Ashcroft has had enough and wants to step down. I can understand that. He's been brutalized by the left.

102 posted on 11/09/2004 1:57:28 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: dennisw
Hatch is a flake.

Probably more truth to that than you know -- it's almost like an inside-Mormon-joke. Both Hatch and Flake are old-line Mormon names; and many of them are blood kin.

The thing I've noticed about Mormon politicos is that, as they get older, they tend to get more dovish, less punitive. But that may be an overgeneralization.

103 posted on 11/09/2004 1:57:53 PM PST by Migraine
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To: JCEccles
"Would you rather have him in a position to make new law of his own desire, or to enforce law of someone else's desire? He is the prime driving force behind the intellectual property rights initiatives that trouble you. Wouldn't you rather have him gone before he accomplishes his goals in this respect?"

You make a good point, that he would be out of the senate before he mangaes to get his legislation passed. But I am also worried about how he would enforce current laws as attorney general. I think the situation we have currently with the movie/music industry suing teenagers, is pretty unacceptable.

104 posted on 11/09/2004 1:58:01 PM PST by Oblongata
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To: Elle Bee

The point of this thread isn't whether we like or dislike Hatch, but whether conservatism overall would be better served if he leaves the Senate (and Senate Judiciary Committee) immediately.


105 posted on 11/09/2004 1:59:57 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles

No. Hatch is spineless and is influenced by questionable friends (Teddy Kennedy).


106 posted on 11/09/2004 2:01:51 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

You would rather that Hatch remain in the Senate, authoring legislation with Ted Kennedy and compromising with liberals on the choice of SCOTUS justices for two to eight more years?


107 posted on 11/09/2004 2:04:18 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles

Wasn't it Orrin Hatch that reported the U.S. had compromised Osama Bin Laden's satellite phone and were listening to his conversations.(Just before the war in Afghanistan) This was just after a high level security briefing, and was a MAJOR intelligence gaff.


108 posted on 11/09/2004 2:07:27 PM PST by mountaineer1997
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To: mountaineer1997

Good question. I don't remember which senator it was. Are you sure it wasn't "Leaky" Leahy?


109 posted on 11/09/2004 2:09:00 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles
"Q: Would you like to see Orrin Hatch replace John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General?"

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Not without a spine transplant!

How about Ann Coulter for AG?
110 posted on 11/09/2004 2:11:43 PM PST by RW_Whacko
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To: JCEccles

NOOOOOOOO!! NOOOOOOOOO!! NOOOOOOOOO!! and NOOOOOOOOOO!!


111 posted on 11/09/2004 2:12:53 PM PST by HungarianGypsy (Envision getting off your hippie butt and getting a job.)
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To: JCEccles

"The clearest suggestion of successful US monitoring of Al Qaeda communications?and the closest to the September 11 attacks?was the statement by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a conservative Republican with wide contacts in the national security establishment. He told the Associated Press on September 11 that the US government was monitoring bin Laden?s communications electronically and had overheard two bin Laden aides celebrating the successful terrorist attack. "They have an intercept of some information that included people associated with bin Laden who acknowledged a couple of targets were hit," he told AP. (Source: Associated Press, September 11, 2001, "World Trade Center collapses in terrorist attack," by David Crary and Jerry Schwartz)"


112 posted on 11/09/2004 2:15:04 PM PST by mountaineer1997
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To: JCEccles

I'd like to see Hatch retire. Joining him would be John McCain and a number of others if I had my way.


113 posted on 11/09/2004 2:15:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: RW_Whacko
Okay, you're looking only the second part of the issue. You need to consider the entire issue.

If Hatch takes over the AG slot, it will be for four years and he will retire from public service at the end of it.

If he doesn't take over the AG slot, then he remains in the Senate (and on the Judiciary Committee) for two and very possibly eight more years, authoring legislation with Ted Kennedy and compromising with liberals to put justices on the SCOTUS in the mold of Ruth Bader-Ginsberg (which appointment Hatch boasted of in his biography).

Which scenario do you prefer?

114 posted on 11/09/2004 2:24:48 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: DoughtyOne
I'd like to see Hatch retire.

This would have the effect of retiring him from the Senate immediately and from public service altogether in four years.

115 posted on 11/09/2004 2:27:02 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles

NEVER!! He's afraid of his own shadow and his lips are on Teddy Kennedy's arse! He'll also be writing LOVE SONGS....just like Janet Reno writing PLAYS and MOVIES!!


116 posted on 11/09/2004 2:27:48 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

See my post #114.


117 posted on 11/09/2004 2:29:09 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles
I don't want to see Hatch in any appointed position that requires verve and nerve.....no where, no how.

I hope the President doesn't start re-treading worn-out old wussies who are nothing more than walking mouths.

We need some dynamic new-blood type who won't fold like a deck of cards when the liberals start attack and smear pressures. Hatch should be appointed music professor at Brigham Young University.

Leni

118 posted on 11/09/2004 2:40:04 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: buckrat

DOUBLE NO!


119 posted on 11/09/2004 2:43:23 PM PST by Digger
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To: JCEccles
No.

Hatch pushed for a similar patriot act bill when Klinton was in office. Too statist.

120 posted on 11/09/2004 2:46:10 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("No time for losers, cause we are the champions...of the world!!!")
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