Assuming Attorney Gen. Alberto Gonzales is asked to resign over the purge of U.S. attorneys, we would nominate the USA who is probably best known to the public: Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago, the special prosecutor who successfully tried Cheney aide Scooter Libby for perjury in the CIA Leak scandal.
Fitzgerald has all the qualities required to be attorney general in a GOP administration: legal knowledge and experience, political savvy and membership in the Republican Party.
He is only deficient in quality required to serve Dear Leader: he is not a loyal Bushie.
It’s this deficiency, however, that would make his nomination sail through the approval process in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Even so, there is some new evidence Fitzgerald may have whiffed on going up the chain in the Libby trial. Either he didn’t know about Karl Rove’s secret email system, or he deliberately failed to subpoena all of Rove’s correspondence.
Update: In the comments, Greg Bacon suggests another candidate who would definitely clear the Senate: former Sen. Fred Thompson. As Greg points out, we know he can play a prosecutor on TV.
- Topic: Politics
- Topics: U.S. Attorney Purge
Our Nominee for Next Bush AG: Patrick Fitzgerald…
Assuming Gonzales will resign soon, Pensito Review nominates US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to replace him as Attorney General. He’s not a loyal Bushie – although he may have whiffed in the Libby case by not demanding Rove’s secret cache of emails. …
Although they’d love to claim him as one of theirs, Patrick Fitzgerald is NOT a Republican. He once considered himself an independant but had his name removed from their list after learning Independant is an actual political party. Having him as Attorney General of the United States would be awesome – he plays everything close to the vest and keeps a tight clamp so much so that there were virtually no leaks during the trial of Scooter Libby.
NO! HE IS NOT OUT OF THE WOODS HE BACKED OFF AND DID NOT GET THE SNAKE ROVE AND LEAD IT ON UP TO THE OTHER CROOKS HIS IS NO AG AND DO NOT PUT HIM IN HE WILL SUCK UP TO BUSH AND THERE WE WILL GO AGAIN!
How about Fred D. Thompson? He’s a great DA, or does he just play one one TV!!!!!!!!