Is Ashcrofts resignation a pre-emptive move...

[Lostnote03]

....to take the heat off of the DOJ if/when the issue of vote fraud is challenged in the courts.....the GOP will need a less controversial AG when they squelch the investigations.....

[Jersey Devil]

1. Yeah, like Rudy

Would America's Mayor lie?

[caledesi]

3. Ya think? Here is a person who divorced his SECOND wife

and didn't even tell her in person of his intentions. It was all on TV. The temerity of this slug!

Then he takes his new girlfriend to Gracie Mansion where his wife and son live. He is disgusting!

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Geez, I agree. Rudy is bad news

Plus, he will either have to flip/flop on the issues of gay rights and abortion rights or he will never get backing from the evangelicals. I just don't see it happening, plus Rudy is pulling in some big bucks on the speaker circuit. Why tolerate the hassle of being the President?

[oddtext]

2. that's what i thought

perhaps he can't keep a lid on fitzgerald anymore in Plame and the fbi in a surmised vote fraud investigation.

i was also surprised that don evans left. how long has that bastard been with w? didn't he run his first campaign?

it's not unusual that these things happen when a prez is "reelected" but this is nt the most usual of preznintcies.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. Rumors of Ashcroft resigning came up pretty fast

I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but I'm wondering if Ashcroft wasn't willing to play a part in the "squelching". Yes, the man has weird view of civil rights, etc. with the Patriot Act and all, but backing up election fraud? That's some REALLY heavy shit for an AG. I don't recall his name being on the list of those most likely to not stay for a second term, like Rumsfeld, for example.

[mongo]

6. Ashcroft didn't perform to the fundies expectations

After all dancing is STILL legal.

Our next AG will be...(drum roll please...) BRUCE TAYLOR

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/interviews/taylor.html

Humble civil servant who has dedicated his life to government. Be afraid - very afraid.

You heard it here first, folks.

[demwing]

7. What are the chances of a future Justice Ashcroft?

shivvvvvver...:scared:

[Mandate My Ass]

8. If it was pre-emptive, he would have resigned before the election

as a signal that he is too partisan to carry out the functions he was appointed to perform.

No, I take this as a bad omen. He's getting ready to be appointed to SCOTUS or some post where his fundamentalism is even more detrimental to the Constitution than the prior one if that's possible.

[buckettgirl]

10. others in DU have said otherwise

I have seen it posted that Ashcroft can't be a supreme court justice because he didn't ever have experience as a judge. His life was politics and nothing else....they said that supreme court justices have spent lots of time as judges before being appointed there....
:shrug:

[annabanana]

9. I wonder if "Justice" (or whoever that statue is)

will be "freed" from her drapery bonds?

[chiburb]

11. My 2 cents: Yes! But for different reasons...

I think HE was the one who leaked Plame's name to Novak or others. If an indictment is coming down, better to put some distance between him and WH...

[Dancing_Dave]

12. Ashcroft was such a key figure in the 9/11 propaganda coup

On which the whole Bush Regime has been based.

He must have a reason to be getting out while the getting is good.

He must have reason to believe that something is about to give.