Posted by
lge on Monday, March 26, 2007 1:24:31 PM
I hold no brief for the trumped-up piece of political theater which is the Democrats' feigned outrage over the firing of U.S. Attorneys.
But I also hold no brief for Alberto Gonzales or any of President Bush's other affirmative-action appointees. To me, such selections were the first sign he was going to stab Republicans, and indeed the country, in the back -- the way he trimmed his sails in making appointments, in order to cater to Affirmative-Action advocates.
Thus we have Rice the buck-toothed school marm. What an insult it is, to send that nonentity to deal with foreign governments, and what an insult to this country! Talk about "gravitas" -- she has so little gravitas, she's like Upsydaisium, the anti-gravity mineral made famous by Rocky and Bullwinkle.
We the people deserve to have the best appointees -- not the best black, or the best female, or the best Hispanic. To choose otherwise is to betray the country. When Bush announces beforehand that he's going to choose a female as the next Supreme Court justice, that's a betrayal. What is he -- psychic? He knows in advance that the best person for the job will be a female? And then when he chooses the janitor, or stock clerk, or whatever Harriet Miers was -- that's criminal (figuratively speaking).
At least he didn't choose Harriet Miers as head of all forces in Iraq -- whew!
Gonzales, with that weenie-whiney voice of his, is nobody's idea of a compelling Attorney General. He's only some people's idea of a Hispanic who can semi-plausibly be put in a prominent position, to appease Hispanic pressure groups and Fifth Columnists. Appeasement of professional minority groups and betrayal of the country -- that's the Bush method of appointment.
We need people of stature in government more than ever before. And what do we get? Fatuous half-assed minority weenie nonentities. Poor U.S.