oppose nomination of John Ashcroft

[Declan McCullagh]

Quite right. Ashcroft is objectionable, as is any candidate George W.
would propose, but he is arguably less objectionable than Reno.

Here's what he said yesterday about Microsoft:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41264,00.html

-Declan


On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:18:32PM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:29:28PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >          Just heard Asskroft on the radio during the hearings affirming
> > his support for the assault weapon ban ( and Herr Busch's support of
> > same) and their intention to reimplement that ban when it sunsets. So
> > much for his being against guncontrol -- he made it pretty clear that he
> > believes the 2nd is about sporting arms, not military weapons.
> 
> Yeah, and they made him apologize for telling the tired old joke about
> how the only thing found in the "middle of the road" are moderates and
> dead skunks. Sounds like everyone's taking this process real seriously.
> Confirmation is more like a ritual hazing and has absolutely nothing
> to do with a candidate's fitness for the job. We've survived Ed Meese
> and Janet Reno, we'll survive John Ashcroft, too. 
> 
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