Reply #38: I think that's just what they want.

[sofa king]

The Bush Administration's next-least-worst option now that AGAG is leaving is to do what they have done better than any corrupt American Presidency in the history of our country: leave the position unfilled and run it through a Bush-selected loyalist from within the ranks.

In the case of the Justice Department that's easy, since it's been thoroughly rotted from the inside out. The media is reporting that Solicitor General Paul Clement, a political lawyer through and through with a grand total of about six years of actual law and clerking practice (including his current job as the nation's most prominent practicing lawyer) and about ten years working for John Ashcroft and stealing elections, will be named Gonzo's acting successor.

Solicitor General seems to be an important post within the Bush Administration, being traditionally staffed by insiders who seem to know where the bodies are buried.


Edit: For those of you wondering how Clement got his job in the first place, just think it through for a minute: the job of Solicitor General is to argue cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the United States. Why wouldn't the Dems want a barely-qualified hack in that position? He's been doing our job for us by incompetently representing the hyperconservative legal position, and making Scalia, Thomas, and Scalito work overtime trying to drag their warped opinions out of his inexpertly crafted arguments.