Ashcroft & Evans resign

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[USNA74]

Reporting that AG Ashcroft and Commerce Sec Don Evans have resigned.

[hershey]

Racicot is terrific no matter what he does.

[lentulusgracchus]

I want to see a nice pro-2a AG.

I don't think you'll get one.

Bush doesn't need the conservatives any more -- that was last week. It'll be all about his legacy now.

He doesn't care about RKBA: that big, fat hedge in the Emerson brief that conservatives hailed because it argued that RKBA is an individual right? Well, look again, because it also walked all over "shall not be infringed"; it specifically left the door open for tight regulation. If the language of the amendment is discarded, what's the difference between Ashcroft's brief and a Clintonoid one? The BATF still comes to your house in black BDU's and balaclavas to kick your door down in the name of State confiscation. So what if the operative theory changes a little, if you get the same result?

I expect Bush will roll over on 2A eventually. Then tell us it's the consensus.

Why do I think this? Because I think the regulation hedge in the Emerson brief was Bush's, not Ashcroft's.

[dead]

I would like to see Ashcroft give a message in tongues before he walks out the door.

Anything but a song.

[fidelio]

Asa Hutchinson to AG?

[LTCJ]

He was a good senator but a bad AG who was the leader in pushing for statist measures he actually fought as senator.

Yep. I get a bit queezy hearing talk of him on the SC. Given the choice of loosing Constitutional limits on goverment or an increased risk of fighting terrorists in the streets, I'll gladly take my chances toe-to-toe with Abdul. I know who's got the upper hand in that fight.

[Petronski]

[snicker]

[Tuxedo]

John Kyl would also make a fine AG, but the state is controlled by a RAT.

[Dog]

Agreed.

My second pick for the Supreme Court would be Miguel Estrada.......play smash mouth with the libs....ram him thru.

[RockinRight]

Well there goes Giuliani. Not that I am complaining.

[L,TOWM]

Lighten up. I am in about as charismatic a denomination as you'll find (FourSquare Gospel) and I thought it was pretty funny...

[jbwbubba]

Pryor is the one who took the 10 commandments out of the courthouse in Alabama. I know, "doing his job" still not winning any points with the religous right

[Brad’s Gramma]

I hope NOT!

[hobson]

Jack Welch would be a good candidate for Commerce Secretary.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, the nomination would have that virtue. I guess if we could guarantee enough emigration with renunciation of citizenship, death due to apoplexy or suicide and the like would result that we'd be guaranteed of flipping say two-thirds of the blue states next time, I might drop two of my objections.

(I'd still rather a younger strict constructivist, though.)

[Petronski]

Do you have a link to the Emerson brief? I'd like to give it a read, maybe over the weekend, to see for myself.

[JFC]

This is who I think will be the next Supreme Court Justice..
Ted Olsen...
EXCELLENT CHOICE....

[fidelio]

Why not, he was being talked about for AAG and SG.

[elizabetty]

Well, look on the bright side. Chief Justice of the United State Supreme Court John Ashcroft has a nice ring to it.

the Dems heads will explode

[Godebert]

"AG is a good spot for Rudy."

No....it's not. Julieannie would overturn Ashcroft's policy that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is an Individual Right.

Why would Conservatives want a Gay Agenda Promoting, Gun-Grabbing Abortionist as the Nation's top law officer?

[MissouriConservative]

Sorry, but I take my religious beliefs very seriously and do not take kindly to them being used in such a facetious manner.