WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.
So at the end of the day, and dispite the Democrats election year stunt, Michael Mukasey makes it through the gauntlet. Rest assured, my friends, water boarding is going to come up as an issue in this election, once we get beyond the primaries. In the end, that’s what the objection to Mukasey was all about. The Democrats don’t have a great deal of force behind their arguments, so they use showboating, instead.
Michelle has the vote list, and more.
Memeorandum has lots of links on the topic this morning, though not as many as you’d think, given the conditions.
Since the Congress could have passed a law against Waterboarding, this is all just posturing. The Democrats among us are saving this topic for later, and don’t want it hit too hard, just now. In short, they are accepting this appointment as a tactical defeat… to create a weakness for later. That supposed weakness…. “torture”.
They had best tread carefully. The American people in my experience, do not regard that as a weakness. The tactic will backfire on them.
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