Senator John Cornyn puts up an excellent op-Ed in today’s Useless Toady, called‘Good man’ follows the law
Says he:
“Judge Alberto Gonzales is an exceptional attorney, devoted public servant and good man of humble beginnings. His nomination to serve as our 80th attorney general — and our first of Hispanic descent — is an inspiring American success story.
Unfortunately, President Bush’s political opponents are attempting to use his nomination to score political points. Specifically, they condemn Gonzales for advising the president that, although every detainee deserves to be treated humanely, al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have no legal right to the numerous additional privileges afforded to prisoners of war under the 1949 Geneva Convention.There is one important problem with this criticism: Gonzales is right.
Can you imagine the howling and screaming going on if the Democrats came up with a Hispanic for Atty General (Fat chance) and the Republcians objected to him at all, much less where the facts are on the side of the nominee?
Similarly, for Dr. Rice; Postulate the very unlikely happening of Democrats coming up with a nomination for a black woman to be run State. Now imagine the wialing and gnashing of teeth and charges of racism that would be heard if the Republcains raised any objection whatever to said nominee.
But here we have two minority candidates… one’s nomination being held up on procedural tricks by a KKK member, who is a Democrat, and the other being objected to… stonewalled, in fact, when the legal facts are demonstrably on the nominee’s side.
One could logically charge the Democrats with racism. At the least one must observe that where the Democrats are allowed the choice, the advancement of the state of minorites in this country takes a back seat to Democrat political power.
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