Would Bush dare put Ashcroft on the SCOTUS with an Recess Appointment...

[Junkdrawer]

Legally, if Rehnquist resigns (or dies), he can. But would he dare....

[roseBudd]

1. is Ashcroft even a lawyer?

[Junkdrawer]

6. He was the nation's Top Lawyer for 4 looooong years...

And no judge experience didn't stop Thomas - and rumor has him headed for Chief Justice.

[alittlelark]

2. I doubt it highly, I think they know a**croft is a hated man

I wouldn't be suprised if the admin. poisoned him when he was 'sick' they never really figured that out....

[rocktivity]

3. Does Ashcroft qualify to be a judge?

Not that he qualifed to be an attorney general...

GET THEE BEHIND ME, ASHCROFT!
UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!

:headbang:
rocknation

[dicknbush]

7. I don't think you need to be qualified.

You just need to be nominated then you need to be approved by the Senate. So Bush could nominate Bozo the Clown and if the Senate went along with it well that's it.

[Chimpanzee]

14. I'd surely trust Bozo over Asscroft any day of the week!

[John Q. Citizen]

4. It might work out well

if Ashcroft is sick and dying.

By the time he died we might be ble to replace him.

The scariest possibility is that Bush appoints a young healthy psycho who lives for another 50 years.

[BurtWorm]

5. Elizabeth Bumiller (if you can believe her) suggests that the Bushists

see Ashcroft as in it for himself, not a team player, a grandstander. That's why he's leaving probably. It was probably made clear to him that they didn't appreciate his constant spotlight stealing.

[Walt Starr]

8. An Ashcroft appointment would be bait to draw out the filibuster

then push through Estrada after the filibuster keeps Ashcroft out.

If Bush/Rove appoint Ashcroft, the logical move for the Democrats would be to step aside and allow it to sail through the confirmation process.

[tk2kewl]

9. Folks in this thread are missing the point

Whethere it is Ashcroft or someone else, if Rehnquist steps down and Bush makes an appointment during the Senate's recess, then there will be no confirmation hearings until AFTER the following Senate session.

http://www.thisnation.com/question/010.html

[Junkdrawer]

13. Give the man a cigar...

Bingo

[immoderate]

10. A recess appointment will cost the president a lot of his "capital"

Ashcroft is not suited by temperament to the bench and will be an embarrassment.

--IMM

[theboss]

11. A recess appointment has an expiration date

What would be the point?

[Batgirl]

12. could we dare hope?

According to Ashcroft's resignation letter, "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."

Yet in Sept Cheney was warning that we were in the deepest of deep shit-- "the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."

Having eliminated terrorism in only a couple of months, no wonder JA is now saying "my work here is done." Perhaps it's time for him to take his place on the Supreme Court (Superheroes of Christ) and get to work eliminating all of the other evils that threaten the fabric of our great theocracy.

[Chimpanzee]

16. "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror

has been achieved????"

Did that happen in the last week? I thought we were in grave danger of an attack at any minute. That's why they closed down that Ohio precinct, right??

What an intolerable asshole. Typical Bush propaganda. The people that voted for these devil dogs are dumber than a redwood stump.

[Triana]

15. bu$h will do whatever he damn well pleases...

...and no one will stop him. Unless WE do.