In today’s L.A. Times, Jonah Goldberg discusses the “redemption” of John Ashcroft and fantasizes that the same image rehab may one day happen for George Bush. Talk about your Extreme Make-Over! The problem with Goldberg’s piece is that it shifts the focus away from where it should be: finding out who sent Vito and Big Pussy — I mean, Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card — to Ashcroft’s sick bed to pressure him into reauthorizing aspects of the NSA wiretap program the acting Attorney General didn’t think were legal. Was it George Bush? When NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell asked the president last week if he’d authorized the high-ranking goon squading of Ashcroft, he refused to answer the question. Twice. Isn’t that something Congress should be looking into?
May 23, 2007 5:29 AM
