9/10/2005

16 Responses to ““No” on Gonzales”

1. Christ.

   That SOB’s contract is the highest value on the futures market right now.

   I hate you, Mr. President.

   Angry Clam (a7c6b1) — 9/10/2005 @ 6:01 pm

   
   

2. Sell short

   Paul Deignan (664c74) — 9/10/2005 @ 7:24 pm

   
   

3. Just the other day I heard Hugh Hewitt argue that while Gonzales would have made a shitty judge five years ago, he’d actually make a decent one today because the libs have pissed him off so much. Me, I’m not willing to bet the next 30 years on it, but it’s an interesting idea nonetheless. [FWIW, he also thinks there’s no real chance Gonzales will be appointed, so that that for whatever it’s worth.]

   The timing of this post kinda sucks. Between one post defending two reporters who were wrongly accused of racism and another attacking an Vdolt who is rightly accused of the same, I’m kinda burned out on posts about racism. Else, this woudl have been the perfect opportunity for a post of my own with a heading along the lines of “Patterico Opposes Hispanic Judge,” or some such.

   Xrlq (428dfd) — 9/10/2005 @ 10:14 pm

   
   

4. Xrlq,

   How about “Right-wing conservative blogger Patterico supports white Rehnquist, doesn’t support non-white Gonzales”. That sounds like a good headline to me.

   Leigh (3af625) — 9/11/2005 @ 5:48 am

   
   

5. Stuff like that is why I can’t take Hugh Hewitt seriously, and do not listen to his show.

   Angry Clam (a7c6b1) — 9/11/2005 @ 6:31 am

   
   

6. 1. #5 Angry Clam:

   Hugh Hewitt tries to be politically correct at times, and its bothersome.

   2. Patterico, that’s a very short brief – “No.”
   No more points of law or specific facts? (smile)

   David (822ea3) — 9/11/2005 @ 6:39 am

   
   

7. I’m aware. I’ve hated his radio show for years, though, also because over half of each show is “look what I read on the internet.”

   Newsflash, Hugh: I can read blogs too.

   The real question is who I can’t stand more: Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, or Bush for constantly floating Gonzales. I’m going with Bush, because Hugh only bothers me for three hours every weekday, and I can change the radio station.

   Appointing Gonzales screws me 24/7 for the next thirty years or so.

   Angry Clam (a7c6b1) — 9/11/2005 @ 6:49 am

   
   

8. How about? “Patterico and Clam nix Gonzalez, opens door for Dean”

   Lew Clark (6446c7) — 9/11/2005 @ 7:42 am

   
   

9. The libs may piss him off now, but by the time the hearings are over and he’s renounced the so-called torture memo a hundred seventy-two times, he’ll be totally neutered. Nothing against the man personally. I respect him. I just think there are a couple of hundred better candidates for the Supreme Court.

   Attila (Pillage Idiot) (471b7c) — 9/11/2005 @ 11:46 am

   
   

10. SCOTUS Watch: Gonzales NO!

    Patterico has it RIGHT.
    NO!
    Better choices.
    Flap handicaps a woman nominee to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor:
    Janice Rogers Brown

    Edith Clement

    Edith Hollan Jones

    Priscilla Owen

    Technorati Tags: Supreme Court, An…

    FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog (baa0b4) — 9/11/2005 @ 12:57 pm

    
    

11. My problem with Hewitt is his cock-sure optimism about everything. I stopped listening to his show after he predicted with certainty that Bush would be re-elected. The first Bush, that is.

    Xrlq (428dfd) — 9/11/2005 @ 4:57 pm

    
    

12. Hewitt is indeed optimistic, it comes from two sources:
    1. He grew up near Cleveland. If you have seen the Cuyahoga River go from a fire hazard to a river again you can hope for a lot.
    2. He is an OSU fan. The only good season is a national championship, so again you need optimism.

    Any failings he has comes from internal conflict caused by being an Ohio boy who went to “the school up north” for law school.

    MD in Philly (b3202e) — 9/12/2005 @ 5:34 am

    
    

13. John stewart put it nicely when he discussed the time that Bush said “and notice that i was looking at gonzales when I said all candidates.”

    Stewart said it meant that Dubya was going to pick Gonzales or that Dubya was being a total dick to Gonzales. What kind of guy is Dubya? the former, or the latter?

    actus (9982e6) — 9/12/2005 @ 6:11 am

    
    

14. I don’t know the context, but let’s say that Gonzales doesn’t want the job and has told the president that. (I hear that’s the case.) In that case, the president could just be defending his friend and tweaking Gonzales’s critics.

    Patterico (756436) — 9/12/2005 @ 6:38 am

    
    

15. “In that case, the president could just be defending his friend and tweaking Gonzales’s critics.”

    I don’t see how it defends him. I do see how its being a dick to someone.

    actus (9982e6) — 9/12/2005 @ 6:40 am

    
    

16. In my scenario, I see exactly the opposite. But I don’t know the context and you haven’t provided it, so it’s all pointless anyway.

    Patterico (756436) — 9/12/2005 @ 7:04 am