When I first saw this at The New York Times, my first thought was “Please, God, no.” I assume this was startling to the slumbering deity, who had not heard from me in a while… But seriously, Jamie Gorelick as Attorney General? Surely Bambi’s got more sense than that.
The thing that most struck me about the piece was the following paragraph.
Carries as 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 accounting failures. She has also drawn criticism for her role at the Justice Department, in which she allegedly created an intelligence “wall” that hindered counterterrorism agents in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks. Conservatives called for her removal from the Sept. 11 commission, but her fellow members rallied around her and said critics were distorting her record. The criticism grew so heated that the F.B.I. investigated a death threat against her family, and President Bush had to intervene personally to stop the Justice 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. [emphasis mine -melo]
Gee… ya think?!? Why who in their right mind would even think to object to installing the woman responsible for keeping our foreign intelligence from collaborating with law enforcement and whose time at Fannie Mae saw a $10B accounting scandal? Heck, Duke even hired her to help it railroad innocent students who weren’t even indicted in Nifong’s sham case.
Peach of a gal, she is. But since she was #2 in Clinton’s Justice Department when she built her wall and she was knee-deep in the accounting practices leading to Fannie Mae’s bailout, are we supposed to see the possibility of Attorney General Gorelick as HOPE? ‘Cause an inept, embedded, Washington insider sure isn’t CHANGE.
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Bambi's Possible Cabinet, Jamie Gorelick
Former Clintonites is not the sort of change we were looking for and I hope Obama can figure this out. If we wanted Bill Clinton 2, we would have elected Hillary. In any case, I’m guessing that this is just wild media speculation although the local pundits have theorized that Gorelick might be the token sacrificial lamb that allows other, less distasteful cabinet choices to get a pass.
It would HAVE to be hope because it sure ain’t change. I hope she does a good job. Other things I hope for :
Charlie Brown kicks the football
Detroit Lions – Super Bowl champs
The network renewal of Arrested Development
Jack Black – supermodel
Riding my unicorn to my date with Kristen Bell
Any ideas on which will happen first?