Perhaps you have not heard that the good Senator has been lobbying administration officials and senate colleagues for months now to slide into the AG slot. Badmouthing the outgoing AG would probably be counterproductive toward that end.

Still, I doubt the President will bite. Like other administration officials, Gonzales has hung around so long because the President prizes loyalty above competence. Although Hatch would likely be an easy confirmation, would he pass the President’s loyalty test?

It also seems weird that Senator Hatch would get himself elected to a sixth term, only to abandon it in its first session to accept a 16-month stint as AG. Perhaps the senate gig is getting old after all. Bear in mind that Governor Huntsman would have to appoint someone to fill Hatch’s vacated senate position. I worry about the Governor’s ability to select someone that would actually be good for Utah.

Perhaps you have not heard that the good Senator has been lobbying administration officials and senate colleagues for months now to slide into the AG slot.

Is he giving up his goal of a SCOTUS nomination, or does he think that becoming AG would help him in that goal? I hadn’t heard of his desires to do that, but it would explain his obsequiousness to the Bush administration throughout this whole fiasco.

Thanks for pointing out how useless our senior senator is, Connor (not that our junior senator is any better) :).

I hope that history will remember Attorney General Gonzales for his honorable service to his country…

Excuse me Mr. Senator, but I don’t recall…

In the spirit of Gonzales’ revisionist policy towards constitutional law, allow me to take the liberty of revising good senator Hatch’s comments about him.

I hope this works

“I hope that history will remember Attorney General Gonzales for his honorable (obedient) service to his country (president and party leaders), rather than for the absurd political theater (long overdue scrutiny) to which some critics (the Congress) have(sic.) subjected him. He has overseen the Department of Justice’s (Bush Administration’s) efforts to protect children (itself) from Internet predators (oversight), to combat Human trafficking (Rights), and to prevent the spread of meth (internal dissent) in our communities. (Justice Department)”

Ah, kooky Uncle Orrin … I never knew that shame was the first thing to go with senility.

When my lifelong, red-shirted Republican family members look at the floor in shame whenever his name is mentioned, it give me a ray of hope. Until election day when they keep sending him back to D.C.