Bush picks his new AG

Published: September 16, 2007, 6:30 pm

Bush has picked his next AG..Per Politico The Asshat-in-Chief has selected: It's nearly official: President Bush is preparing to name Michael B. Mukasey, a former judge who was nominated to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Republicans close to the process told Politico."It came down to confirmability," said a former Justice Department official involved in the conversations.Isn't that something..he didn't want a pissing contestConservatives had been rooting for former Solicitor General Theodore B. (Ted) Olson, but Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed Wednesday to block his confirmation. Well well, it seems Harry rented a set of nads over at Nads R Us..amazing no?Mukasey, 66, was Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, until he went into private practice last year.So a Texan who has long been part of the president's orbit is to be replaced by a New Yorker who is

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