Eliot Spitzer for U.S. Attorney General

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Where the hell is Ashcroft??? Eliot Spitzer has been busting more coporate balls than Ashcroft has had cocktails. When it comes to policing our financial institutions Ashcroft is a joke. But you can rest tonight knowing that Tommy Chong is in jail.

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1. I'm with you.

The next DEMOCRATIC president, who will be elected one year from today, should name Eliot Spitzer for Attorney General!

[realFedUp]

2. I had this same thought yesterday

Let's get Elliot to clean up the mess in America.

[RandomUser]

3. No

If Edwards isn't on the ticket, I think he should be AG. Spitzer has gotten some good support for his stance against corporate fraud, but part of that was a bandwagon effect anyway. It was popular to do what he did after Enron. I would have been more impressed if he had done that before Enron.

Second, Spitzer caved in the Microsoft Anti-trust case. He joined some of the other states that decided to go for a settlement instead of standing firm with the other states that rejected a settlement and went the distance.

[realFedUp]

6. He's certainly done more than the SEC has...

THEY are supposed to regulate before corruption
takes place.

[RandomUser]

8. I agree

and I applaud him for his work. I'm not saying that the bandwagon effect in anyway negates the good he's doing. But I don't want someone who caved to Microsoft to be AG.

The Microsoft anti-trust case was a big deal during the Clinton Era, and Bush and Ashcroft abandoned it to neglect, forcing the states to hold firm. Spitzer didn't go the distance. The measure of a person is what they do when the right thing is not popular, not when it is.

[tjdee]

4. Eliot is my man! I'm fairly certain he's AG in 2004.

There's no one better.

As you said, he's making Ashcroft look like a lame duck in there.
Doing a great job. Definitely, definitely any Dem's #1 choice.

[Military Brat]

5. Elliot Spitzer has COHONES and Ashcroft has CRONIES

Thus the difference

[Jacobin]

7. He is GREAT

He's doing what the SEC should be doing but won't because of the rampant corruption in the Ashcrack Justice Department and the Smirk Administration

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

9. Spitzer has been going after corporate crooks like it's going out of style

Kudos to him, he'd make a great Attorney General, or President for that matter!