You may recall how at the beginning of the current Presidential administration, Senate Democrats made a whole lot of noise failing to stop the nomination of Attorney General John Ashcroft. This provided a useful diversion from their failure to stop the nominations of Gail Norton, Anne Venneman, Thommy Thompson, Paul O’Neil and many more! (To be fair, it should be mentioned that Democratic opposition did temper one solitary cabinate nomination, giving us a slightly less awful Labor Secretary than Bush originally planned.)
Instead of using their power of fillibuster against Ashcroft, Daschle’s gang made him promise that his days as a segregationist, anti-abortionist, wrong side of the civil war, gun nut were over. Ashcroft swore to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would defend the laws of the United States as they stood, regardless of his personal views.
Now Ashcroft has publicly sided with the NRA and against the United States in a pending court case. As one Georgetown law professor, Samuel Dash, puts it, “This act of disloyalty to his client, the United States, constitutes an impermissible conflict of interest.” Gun control advocates have filed ethics complaints with the Department of Justice, the White House, and the appropriate Court.
In a related story, when they posted this AP article, I decided the NRA couldn’t be all that bad.
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