Ashcroft is baaaak...Why are we surprised

[serryjw]

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Less than three months after registering as a lobbyist, former Attorney General John Ashcroft has banked at least $269,000 from just four clients and appears to be developing a practice centered on firms that want to capitalize on a government demand for homeland security technology that boomed under sometimes controversial policies he promoted while in office.
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Attorneys general, while not always apolitical, have tended to avoid the role of "a hired gun selling his connections," said Charles Tiefer, a former deputy general counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives and author "Veering Right, How the Bush Administration Subverts the Law for Conservative Causes."

"The attorney general is very much supposed to embody the pure rule of law _ like the (Justice Department's) statue of `Blind Justice' _ and he's not expected afterwards to cloak, with the mantle of his former office, a bunch of greedy interests," said Tiefer, who teaches law at the University of Baltimore.
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"Ashcroft is, of course, one of the most knowledgeable people in the world in the antitrust and homeland security fields, and so it's natural that companies like Oracle and ChoicePoint would approach him."
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In addition to his lobbying work, Ashcroft is a law professor at Regent University, with campuses in Virginia Beach, Va., and Washington, D.C., run by televangelist Pat Robertson.
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See, He's a political whore during the day and a religious whore at night
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/jan/1275410.htm

[stellanoir]

1. puke

[marmar]

2. Regent University?

Is that one of those earn-your-law-degree-by-filling-out-the-back-of-a-matchbook colleges? ...
If there was one BushCo creep I never hoped to hear from again, it was Ashcroft! Who opened his crypt?

:scared:

[serryjw]

8. Unfortunately, NOT...I posted his before

quote.......
Regent University School of Law: Founded by televangelist Pat Robertson, Regent University School of Law was established in 1986 as a full-time, three-year law program. It gained full accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1996 -- the first religiously conservative law school to do so. Today, 500 students attend the school. Students come from 44 states, over 413 colleges and universities and numerous foreign countries.
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THIS is OUR problem...read the article.He is grooming RW legal nutjobs that will some day be on the High Court
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4632072

[marmar]

12. Yikes!

:yoiks:

[Canuckistanian]

3. I see no conflict of interest here.

No siree, not me.

[0007]

7. Hey, if Bob Jones University sez John is an okay dude, that's

cool. Ashcroft's next move is to sit on the Carlyle Group Board.

No problemo.

[Canuckistanian]

10. The Crisco Kid? Carlyle?

He's been a VERY good boy.

[buff2]

4. What are these greedy bastards planning to do with all the whore money

they are getting? Line their caskets with it so they can take it with them? Khrrrrrist. :argh:

[FreedomAngel82]

6. It does make you wonder

How much money does one need?

[kliljedahl]

5. The same guy who lost an election to a dead man?

Doin' a heckuva job, isn't he?



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[CrazyOrangeCat]

9. the very same . . .

he just won't go away . . .

[Scurrilous]

11. Let my net worth...

...sooooooooooar!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

15. .

:rofl:

[jazzjunkysue]

13. It's impossible to embarass these weasles. Ashcroft and Robertson!

Talk about birds of a feather. More like do-do birds.

[SoCalDem]

14. I am actually surprised that HE was not a SCOTUS nominee

:(