How dare she approve this man! You're exactly right. Anyone who responded the way he did cannot be counted on to be transparent and straightforward. He's smart too. That makes him more likely to know how to bend the rules just enough to avoid doing something obvious, something that might become public and cause outrage.

The party elected to protect the peasants has either lost or thrown away their pitchforks. I realize that we can't expect anything from the Tennessee "public servants" but I expected the Congress that more sensible states elected to put a hurdle in front of every move the administration made in order to begin cleaning up the mess. Instead many of them are going to bed with them.

What was in Bush's latest threat that changed their minds about Mukasey? Would running the country without an AG be worse than having another Gonzo?

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John Dean, one of the last honorable conservatives, offers a good perspective on this and Congress should listen him. Here and here, with excerpt from the former:

Since Judge Mukasey’s situation is not unlike that facing Elliot Richardson when he was appointed Attorney General during Watergate, why should not the Senate Judiciary Committee similarly make it a quid pro quo for his confirmation that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate war crimes? Richardson was only confirmed when he agreed to appoint a special prosecutor, which, of course, he did.

I'm starting to really grow uneasy with congressional Dems, though they're still infinitely preferable to Repugs (the modern GOP that got our country into such a mess).