Say No to the Yes Man
It takes someone special to fill the Attorney General shoes of John Ashcroft, but Alberto Gonzales is proving to be as divisive a figure as Ashcroft was. And it's not without merit--this is not some partisan hack job to deny the President one of his own sitting at the Cabinet table. Mr. Gonzales has had an extra-long legal hand in the fortunes of George W. Bush for some time (allegedly helping him to get out of jury duty for a drunken driving court case, where Bush's own DUI/DWI record would have become public), and it's become clear he's far more dutibound to the man than to the people he's serving. And the biggest examples of this are the legal briefs/papers he wrote condoning the use of torture under some circumstances and thereby going against the grain of widely held international law (aka, the Geneva Convention).

It's my hope that the Senate takes a stand on this vote and says NO to Mr. Gonzales. We're a better country than what he stands for, and the global community needs to hear that.