Spine, anyone?

Tristero looks at the Chimp's likely choice as the new AG nominee. Harry Reid is talking big, but personally, I think this nomination will follow the same script as the SCOTUS appointments:

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Let me put it this way. While countrywide disgust with Bush, Bushism, and the low-brow pandering of Republican shtick is, perhaps, at an all-time high, one should never misunderestimate the Democrats' remarkable skill at pulling the rabbit of defeat out of the most victorious of hats (or something like that).

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Indeed. One way or another, the next AG will be another in a line of thuggish, jackbooted, brownshirted, fascist administrators.

... If Olson is indeed the nominee, how he fares should be considered a decent harbinger for 2008. If they confirm him, hang on to that hat: It means that the top Dems have learned nothing and '08 is seriously up for grabs. But if the Dems can manage not merely to defeat Olson, but expose the extremism that he - and by extension, the Republican Party - embodies, well, that's a different story ...

T seems to have a bit of hope the Dems might be able to win one but if past performance is an indicator, I don't. Using the past as a guide, I think whoever gets the Chimp's nomination will be confirmed without much hubbub. I'm pretty much resigned to the status quo until the '08 elections are over.

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By the way, you know when the next terror attack on U.S. soil will happen? In the time between Election and Inauguration Days next year. Think 'national emergency' and 'war powers'. Think President Cheney.

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