beldar.blogs.com - 11/10/2008
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Visualizing Obama's victory | Main Sunday, November 09, 2008 No to Gorelick for AG The Democratic Party's ethical standards have now plummeted significantly below those which prompted Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards to joke in 1983 that "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in ...
nytimes.com - 11/10/2008
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nytimes.com —
As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack
Obama is relying on a small team of advisers...
who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of a new Obama administration. Following is part of a series of profiles of potential ...
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The New Team - Jamie Gorelick - Series
nytimes.com - 11/10/2008
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nytimes.com —
As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack
Obama is relying on a small team of advisers...
who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of a new Obama administration. Following is part of a series of profiles of potential ...
(more)
The New Team - Jamie S. Gorelick - Series
althouse.blogspot.com - 11/10/2008
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althouse.blogspot.com —
And provides this profile . Under the heading
"Baggage": Her work at Fannie Mae, which had to...
be bailed out by the government in September as part of a $200 billion deal. Ms. Gorelick left the company just as it was coming under attack for huge ...
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The NYT identifies Jamie Gorelick as potentially Obama's ...
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Obama: Who Would Be Good for AG? Hey, How About That Woman Who Erected the Wall Between the FBI and DoJ? That Sounds Good!
Patterico's Pontifications —
... Beldar says that “the prospect of Jamie Gorelick heading up the Department of Justice is worth filibustering, if anything or anyone is.” ...
Things Heard: e40v1
Stones Cry Out —
Pet peeves in English usage (HT: Mad Minerva)
Disaster at sea.
76 of them?
Of brilliant complex explanations.
Just say no.
Apologetically.
Maths teaching and what’s wrong.
Memory of a night.
Golly.
Orthodoxy in the ESV Study Bible.
The benefits of certain struggles.
Considering unemployment.
“I do not know” and getting it right.
On ...
Obama Considering Controversial Figure for Attorney General
PoliGazette —
... Gorelick is a controversial figure. Shortly after the report was published, conservative bloggers responded angrily, calling on the Republican minority in Congress to do everything in their power to prevent Gorelick from becoming the country’s Attorney General. If necessary, the filibuster should be used, these bloggers say. ...
The NYT identifies Jamie Gorelick as potentially Obama's pick for Attorney General.
Althouse —
... Department from releasing sealed reports involving her. Some conservative bloggers have already begun trying to derail Ms. Gorelick’s possible nomination as attorney general, pointing to her experiences at both Fannie Mae and the Sept. 11 commission.Unbelievably ponderous baggage! Oh, but conservatives have attacked her. Does that somehow cancel the baggage? A better question: Why haven't liberals attacked her? Beldar seethes: Short of appointing an actual member of al Qaeda, I cannot imagine ...
Change You Can Filibuster
damnum absque injuria —
... (h/t: Beldar ) I may just have my answer. According to the Times, one of the leading candidates for Attorney General is Jamie Gorelick, the single most culpable non-al-Qaeda member in enabling the September 11, 2001 attacks. Between her infamous “wall,” her inexcusable decision to serve on the very 9/11 Commission she should have appeared before, and her five-year stint at Fannie Mae, is there anything that has gone catastrophically wrong over the past decade that Gorelick hasn’t had a hand in? Maybe Gorelick’s not really in the running for the job, and the paper with a ...
Obama supporters regretting mistake already
USS Neverdock —
Hey, we told you so. "But the prospect of Jamie Gorelick heading up the Department of Justice is worth filibustering, if anything or anyone is. She's not "change you can believe in," she's "change guaranteed to cause even more cosmic calamities" because she's done that consistently in the past." Ann Althouse is having regrets. "I voted for Obama, as I'm sure my commenters are about to remind me, and I'm hoping for the best. He told me to hope! Please don't crush ...
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