Head "Jesus freak" out at Justice
Attorney General John Ashcroft and some other guy have resigned from Bush's cabinet (actually the other guy is Don Evans, but that's one of those cabinet posts nobody cares about and should probably be eliminated anyway.)
I'm not sorry to see Ashcroft go. I guess he was a competent AG, but his main selling point was his unfailing ability to whip liberals into a frothing, gibbering, mindless frenzy. Heh heh, that was kinda cool, but even such high entertainment can start to wear thin after a while.
The funniest thing about it was the sheer irony of it. Let's face it, had it not been for the shameless shenanigans the Democrats pulled in Missouri four years ago, John Ashcroft would be harmlessly whiling away his days watching "Veggie Tales" in the Senate cloakroom, rather than gleefully trampling on our precious civil liberties and covering naked statue boobies. (By the way, what did previous administrations think of the naked statue lady? Am I the only one with this mental image of Bill Clinton giggling and pointing at it each time he passed, sniggering, "Look! Boobies!"?)
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Nope. You're not the only one.
I don't have too much against Ashcroft.. maybe... I'll have to rethink that one... but that statue thing was just over the top.
Posted by: Amy | November 10, 2004 09:08 AM
i had an arguement a while ago with someon eover the statue thing, so i did some research into it. What i found was this: after Spet. 11 Ashcroft began having a lot of press conferences in the hall with the statues. Since these were often carried on network news the decision was made by mid level officials in the justice department to cover the statues, which cost somethign like 4,000 bucks every press conference. After a while those same mid level officials had the economical idea to cover them permanently at a cost of 10,000. The only news agency i found that reported that Ashcroft even might have konwn before hand was ABC news. I found no evidence that Ashcroft had a say in the decision, let alone had the stautues covered out of some religous belief. Just my $.02.
Posted by: Chris | November 10, 2004 01:26 PM