Is Gordon Liddy Available?
If Mukasey goes down, why not just nominate the man we want, not just the man we think will squeak through.
Judge Michael Mukasey was supposed to be a “consensus” attorney general candidate. In September, he was touted as a “safe bet,” in part due to the supposedly warm feelings he engendered in rabid liberals Charles Schumer and Nan Aron.
Staunch conservative attorney and former solicitor general Ted Olson was reportedly passed up to avoid a long, bitter partisan fight. Paul Mirengoff rightly called it a “an act of preemptive surrender.”
So, what has offering a “consensus” candidate gotten the Republicans?
Nothing.
A guy who could hold his hand over a candle flame and eat rats, G-Man wouldn’t let a little waterboarding throw him.
Charles Schumer would soil his britches merely at Liddy’s entrance into the hearing chamber. That alone is reason enough.