A Window on a Man's Morality

[struggle4progress]

Alberto R. Gonzales' record raises questions about his fitness to serve as attorney general.

The Republicans' comfortable majority in the Senate means that Alberto R. Gonzales will almost certainly be confirmed as the next attorney general. With hearings on his nomination set to start today, many Democrats think the best they can do is wound Gonzales enough with questions about his notorious torture memos to disqualify him for any future Supreme Court seat. In the end, however, they will feel pressure to support him or face retaliation from Republicans.

They should resist. <snip>

No one now can doubt the enormous power the attorney general wields or the lasting harm the person who holds that office can do. Gonzales may not share his predecessor's zeal in hounding X-rated moviemakers or cancer patients who smoke marijuana, but as the president's chief lawyer, he has been every bit as reckless. <snip>

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-gonzales6jan06,1,5485839.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

[depakid]

1. "or face retaliation from Republicans."

Now, who thinks that there's ANYTHING that the Republicans COULD DO in "retaliation" that they won't do anyway? What's to fear?