William Kristol endorsing Michael Mukasey for AG. How's that for a red flag?

[Skidmore]

And this man is being referred to as a "consensus nominee?" Why are we hearing rumblings of approval already from Dems? Chuck Schumer apparently has gone on record with the honorable man mantra that so often precedes a rubberstamping of confirmations in this congress.


http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/121rpxqa.asp

Michael Mukasey to be Attorney General...
And conservatives should be happy.
by William Kristol
09/15/2007 6:22:00 PM


THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey is the leading candidate to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. President Bush is expected to announce the nomination as early as Monday.

Mukasey, 66, was nominated as a federal district judge for the Southern District of New York in 1988 by Ronald Reagan, and served until September 2006 with great distinction. Mukasey, widely viewed as one of the country's top trial judges, presided over important trials including the 1995 New York City terror trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven co-defendants, who were convicted and received lengthy jail terms. In an unusual statement, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, upon reviewing and upholding the judge's work, noted that Mukasey had "presided with extraordinary skill and patience, assuring fairness to the prosecution and to each defendant and helpfulness to the jury. His was an outstanding achievement in the face of challenges far beyond those normally endured by a trial judge."

Some of my fellow conservatives will be disappointed that the nominee won't be former Solicitor General Ted Olson. Olson would be a superb AG--and there is a case for nominating Olson, and inviting a Senate confirmation fight over issues of legal philosophy and executive power. There is also a case, though, for nominating an AG equally as first-rate as Olson, but one who'll be easily confirmed--and who will, I believe, come to judgments similar to Olson's on key issues of executive power and the war on terror.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Why in the world does he have anything to say about selecting an AG?

Fuck Billy and his stupid Philosophy...PNACer

[rateyes]

2. I'll tell you this: It doesn't matter who the nominee is...

the Senate better not think about confirming him without FIRST getting Harriett Miers and Karl Rove in public under oath without claims of executive privilege, or, in lieu of that, holding them in inherent contempt of Congress...as well as getting ALL the subpoenaed material in hand.

If Leahy doesn't make sure that happens, then he deserves all the ill will that a lot of Dems are feeling toward him right now.

[aquart]

3. Did Olson turn Bush down?

Remember, a law and order judge is EXACTLY what we want. One who is offended to the bone by BushCo tactics.

[Skidmore]

4. I don't believe Olson turned him down. It is my understanding

that there was an indication that there would be a problem with his confirmation by the Judicial Committee and * is tossing out a bone with a "consensus candidate" for the job. I am just as deeply suspicious of anyone that William Kristol would be enthusiastically carrying water for.

[OHdem10]

5. Krystol a Consummate Neiocon is acting as a NeoCon.

They are not knee-jerk conservatives. Foreingn Policy
is the area in which they have strong and unyielding
beliefs. War and Empirialism.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Why not just insist on Janet Reno or someone like her.

Republican's want to pretend that they will run the justice department in a fair and honest manner. They've had their chance. Why not insist that a Democrat can be just as fair and honest? If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear.

[whoneedstickets]

7. He's a conservative Jew...

So he's probably cut from the same cloth as Kristol, Lieberman, Wolfowitz.

I find it interesting that Schumer supports him.

[Skidmore]

8. Yes, I think you are on target, and Schumer lining up doesn't surprise me

at all.

[aquart]

9. "Probably cut"?

Yes, Jews are automatons with no individuality and no deviation from the Jew party line, right?

In other words, you know nothing about him and haven't bothered to find out. "Conservative Jew" tells you everything you need to know.

Tells me, too. But not about him.

[Dave From Canada]

10. Well said!

[whoneedstickets]

12. One neglected component of sterotypes....

..is that they are often accurate.

http://www.amazon.com/Stereotype-Accuracy-Appreciating-Differences-Science/dp/1557983070/ref=sr_1_4/104-6818285-7941504?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190068357&sr=1-4

It isn't rocket science to add together conservative, Jew, Kristol-endorsed and Regan-appointee and come up with Necon.

I notice you didn't offer any contrary evidence before you slung your insult.

I'll do you that courtesy before I sling mine....

Other info

"In 2004, he championed the Patriot Act when accepting the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence, and his remarks were adapted to an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5850_Page2.html

From Open Secrets:
MUKASEY, MICHAEL B NEW YORK,NY 10021
PATTERSON, BELNAP, ET AL/ATTORNEY
9/28/2006
$1,000
Lieberman, Joe


The AP noted that Brian Burch, president of a conservative Catholic-based advocacy group called Fidelis, started getting calls early Saturday from members of his group and other conservative groups who were worried that Bush was getting ready to nominate Mukasey. “His federal judicial record has been at times hostile to the issues that we care and have concern about, like abortion,” Burch said. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/12901.html

----

So, gives money to Joe, hard on defense, pro patriot act, perhaps a bit wobbly on social issue for the evangelicals and rw catholics. Sounds pretty much like the classic Jewish neocon to me. Sterotype confirmed.

Next time I won't waste time responding to knee-jerk, cry antisemitism-at-a-whim crowd.

[pampango]

11. Is he baiting us into being seen as attacking a nominee that some Democrats

including Schumer support? I am not sure that anyone here cares enough about Kristol's support for anyone.

If baiting us is the RW's strategy they should have Rove endorse Mukasey. ;)