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Get Well Soon, Attorney General Mukasey
November 21, 2008 11:36 AM
It may be worth pointing out that Attorney General Michael Mukasey is the third Bush Attorney General in a row to have a serious health episode.
In March 2004, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was rushed to the hospital to have emergency gallbladder surgery (You may recall the dramatic hospital scene where White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and White House chief of staff, Andrew Card -- objecting to deputy AG Jim Comey's refusal to reauthorize Bush's domestic surveillance program -- stormed into Ashcroft's hospital room to see if they could persuade the ailing AG to sign off).
Then of course, during the US Attorney controversy, Attorney General Gonzales appeared to have had a debilitating case of amnesia.
One ultimately fatal to his career in Washington, DC, at any rate.
-- jpt
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Yeah, working hard to justify violating the Constitution and breaking the law eventually takes its toll. As it should. Will Mukasey take this as a sign? I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: DVS | Nov 22, 2008 1:31:40 AM
Gee whiz the guy collapsed
Give him some air
Posted by: smith | Nov 21, 2008 1:42:24 PM
"Then of course, during the US Attorney controversy, Attorney General Gonzales appeared to have had a debilitating case of amnesia."
VERY WITTY, Mr. Jake!
Isn't it great to be getting rid of all these incompetent cronies?
Posted by: Jan | Nov 21, 2008 1:07:59 PM
Come Jake, instead of referring back to the US Attorney "scandal" as you call it, how about reporting that some of those US Attorneys were fired (like in NM) for their refusal to prioritize Voter Fraud in their cases. Gee, after what we experienced with your friends ACORN on Nov 4th and leading up to Nov 4th, wouldn't it have been nice to know our Government is on top of prosecuting those people that would prevent us from having clean elections? No, that's not the way you guys in the media think unfortunately. When Obama fires Patrick Fitzgerald do you think we'll even get a main stream story on it?
Posted by: disgusted | Nov 21, 2008 12:38:18 PM
Maybe it's the tsuris associated with the AG job itself that's causing all the health problems?
Posted by: chuck | Nov 21, 2008 12:15:41 PM
There is working, but in the case of the AG, it is working the person into the ground almost literly. I do not know the inner working of the department but it is very very clear that there is a most urgent need to share more work at the top. What aren't the assistants and deputies doing? Of course it could be the fault of the AG in keeping to much to close to the vest.
Posted by: Ranger Phx | Nov 21, 2008 12:05:17 PM
Obamas sooon to be AG will be in the same shape as the dirt on him is uncovered...again Obama surrounding himself with questionable character hmmmmmmmm Mark rich ring a bell?
Posted by: like it or not here I come | Nov 21, 2008 11:57:49 AM
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