“I can tell you already he’s a better candidate than John Ashcroft!”, snaps Sen. Charles Schumer.
Where’s the love, Chucky? Where’s the love?
Bush Nominates Gonzales to Succeed Ashcroft as Attorney GeneralWednesday, Nov. 10, 2004
WASHINGTON – President Bush named White House counsel Alberto Gonzales as attorney general on Wednesday, picking the administration’s most prominent Hispanic for a highly visible post in the war on terror.
“His sharp intellect and sound judgment have helped shape our policies in the war on terror,” Bush said of the man who has served as the White House’s top lawyer over the past four years.
In an announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Bush outlined Gonazles’ story, a boy who grew up in a family of eight children in a two-bedroom house in Texas, and now is in line for a Cabinet post.
If confirmed by the Senate, the 49-year-old Texan would become the first Hispanic to hold the job as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.
Even before the formal announcement, one Senate Democrat liberal welcomed the appointment of “someone less polarizing” to the position. “We will have to review his record very carefully, but I can tell you already he’s a better candidate than John Ashcroft,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
He was the first Hispanic to sit on the Texas Supreme Court and has been Bush’s council for many years, including serving as the current White House counsellor. He holds center to slightly center-right views, and his judicial philosophy more constructionist rather than interpretationist.
This puts a right one up the old Dem wazoo. They risk alienating the Latino/Hispanic voting bloc if they try to block the nomination. I’m sure they’ll trot out those fellas from LaRaza, who’ll have an opinion, no doubt.
This puts a right one up the old Dem wazoo. They risk alienating the Latino/Hispanic voting bloc if they try to block the nomination. I’m sure they’ll trot out those fellas from LaRaza, who’ll have an opinion, no doubt.
If the dems didn’t block Asscroft, I’m pretty sure they won’t put forth a strong effort on this guy. If I was Bush, I’d be more worried about how this will affect my conservative base since it is coming out in the press on the same day as my plans to legalize illegal aliens.
I would imagine many Democrats will say this is a huge success, in that they were able to pressure Ashcroft out, and to get Pres Bush to nominate a much more moderate guy to replace him.
La Raza = “The Race”. Liberal Hispanic-American (there’s that hyphenated American thing again advocacy group. Similar to NAACP, Rainbow Coalition et al. Not bad guys, any of them. I just personally think that a small part of the problem with race relations in this country is that many of these groups might NOT want a condition to exist in which there are no racial problems.
It it did, they’d all be out of jobs
Tony (proud non-hyphenated Italian-Polish/American
advocacy group. Similar to NAACP, Rainbow Coalition et al. Not bad guys, any of them. I just personally think that a small part of the problem with race relations in this country is that many of these groups might NOT want a condition to exist in which there are no racial problems.