Tag: Mukasey

Lee Judge, the cartoonist for the Kansas City Star, sums up the Mukasey nomination with this brilliant cartoon.

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Saw this on Chris Suellentrop’s Opinionator blog on the New York Times and thought I’d pass along the link. Essentially, we have a conservative (Ron Dreher) who finds significant constitutional issues in Judge Michael Mukasey’s answers to questions on torture and executive power.

I say they shouldn’t vote for him, period. This country cannot afford an attorney general who believes that executive power should be expanded so greatly. I don’t care if the office sits vacant until Bush is out of office. The line has to be drawn by the Senate.

Read my Dispatches column tomorrow for my take (Hint: It is the same as Ron Dreher’s.)

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This analysis from today’s Times should give Senators voting on the Mukasey nomination pause. This is not about Bush, but about presidential power — I’d ask conservatives to consider whether they are prepared to hand the kind of executive authority they envision for President Bush to a Democrat. I think we all know the answer to that.

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