The list of 5 for Attorney General

[underpants]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5724.html

White House aides have narrowed the possibilities to five finalists, according to the official: Michael Mukasey, Theodore B. (Ted) Olson, Laurence H. Silberman, George J. Terwilliger and Larry D. Thompson.

Michael Mukasey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_B._Mukasey
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/michael_b_mukasey/index.html

Theodore B. (Ted) Olson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Olson
Olson was part of the Arkansas Project<1> <2>, which aimed to damage and end the presidency of Bill Clinton during the 1990s. He was confirmed as Solicitor General after majority Republicans refused Senator Leahy's call for committee inquiries on Olsen's Arkansas Project involvement.<3>.

Olson successfully represented presidential candidate George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore, which effectively determined the final result of the contested 2000 Presidential election.


Laurence H. Silberman
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Laurence_Silberman
Laurence H. (Larry) Silberman, a senior judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is listed among the "Top Contenders"<1> to replace Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales "whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress". Gonzales resigned August 27, 2007,<2> and will leave office on September 17, 2007.<3><4>

"Several Democrats and legal experts said Silberman would have difficulty winning confirmation because of his political resume — including overturning Oliver North's conviction and discrediting Anita Hill during Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings," NewsMax reported August 28, 2007.<1>

Silberman has been identified as "a long-time, right-wing political activist closely tied to the neo-conservative network that led the pro-war propaganda campaign."<5>

"As a former Reagan advisor, Mr Silberman took part in a meeting between top Republicans and Iranian government representatives during the 1980 election campaign, when the Carter administration was trying to negotiate the release of American hostages in Tehran. Judge Silberman and two aides who took part in the meeting later claimed they had rejected the Iranian offer of a deal and did not even remember the name of the Iranian representative. But the meeting was never reported to the state department, at a time of high tension in the US-Iranian relations."<6>

George J. Terwilliger III
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_J._Terwilliger_III
Terwilliger was "a leader of President George W. Bush's legal team during the Florida election recount." "He was an advisor to the Bush-Cheney Transition and counselor to designated cabinet and other prospective appointees."<1>


Larry D. Thompson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Thompson

[dipsydoodle]

1. I wouldn't have go beyond three

Curly , Moe or Larry

[Eurobabe]

2. Or Manny, Moe and Jack.

The PEP Boys.

[Totally Committed]

3. My guess is iti'll be Olson, so they can use his wife's death on 9/11

to keep the Democrats in line during the confirmation hearings.

TC

[Justitia]

10. yeah, he was so broken up over her death, that's he's already remarried to wife #4 -eom

[JDPriestly]

4. Slim pickins'

All part of the vast right-wing conspiracy from way, way back.

[MessiahRp]

5. I tell him and his extremist nominees to fuck off...

Then I never allow the Senate to go into any real form of recess. We have this asshole over a barrel on this and he can't and won't compromise a single bit to put a moderate nominee on the table.

Fuck him.

This is the Attorney General's office we're talking about here. I think we've bent over enough on the courts and other nominees. I expect he and FOX NEWS will whine and bitch about how the Democrats are mean but Clinton never even got close to as many of his nominees fr the courts or the cabinet confirmed by the Republican congress.

Now we just need a Democratic Party that won't cave easily. Oh and a Senate Judiciary Committee with members who aren't naive fools (looking at Feinstein the Appeaser here).

Rp

[autorank]

6. Franklin's the ringer - used to run subprime lender Providian. n/t K*R

[Warpy]

7. Yeah, they're all horrible, but that's the only possibility

because this bunch will only appoint loyal extremists.

The Senate will confirm any of them, even Olson, between the Blue Dogs and the GOP.

You didn't really think we'd get any improvement over Gonzo, did you?

[underpants]

8. The confirmation hearings should be great spectacle

any of the nominees will have to answer to the long list of outrageous doings by this administration.

But you are probably right-they probably already had someone okayed or Gonzo wouldn't have stepped down.

[sandnsea]

11. Have to get out of committee

That's on Leahy, iirc. I think they're going to have to come up with someone reasonable, although Bush will probably just do a recess anyway.

[napi21]

9. Sooo, what would happen if the Dems on Committee vote each one

of these nominees down, and NONE of them get out of Committee? I'd LOVE to see that! I think it's possible too. There are a lot of strong though Dems on the Judicial Committee of the Senate.

[peacetheonlyway]

12. RIGGING ELECTIONS appears to be the only consistent

job requirement for the new attorney general.

perhaps now I know why election integrity activism has been my #1 political activity.

[Ninja Jordan]

13. Terwilliger and Thompson are probably the least offensive; Reid has vowed to block Olson.