Looks like Alberto Gonzalez is on the way out. Among the potential replacements "George J. Terwilliger III, a former deputy attorney general and acting attorney general who was a leader of Bush's legal team during the Florida election recount." I hope he doesn't get the nomination, and I hope if he does get the nomination, the confirmation process is smooth. I, for one, absolutely refuse to be placed in a situation where I may need to speak the words "George J. Terwilliger III" out loud in a professional context. If the man gets himself a less ridiculous name, he may have a bright future in politics.
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You Can Call Me Al Willige
19 Mar 2007 10:17 pm
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I wonder if he is related to Robert Underdunk Terwilliger.
Is he related to Sideshow Bob?
Ahem. I see that I have managed to basically do a duplicate comment WHEN THERE WAS ONLY TWO OTHER COMMENTS TO READ!
Stupid!
According to that article, among conservatives' beefs with Alberto Gonzales is "his alleged ceding of power in the department to career officials instead of movement conservatives."
So he hasn't done enough to put DOJ in the service of political hacks. That sounds about right.
A comparison of Robert Unterdunk Terwilliger's Wikipedia entry to George J. Terwilliger III's reveals something, surely.
Ooooh! Lotsa questions about Florida 2000 during confirmation hearings. Must-see TV.
How many Florida 2000 lawyers have got primo jobs in the past six years? How many bourgeois rioters?
Michael Chertoff is a Jewish Adolph Eichmann and as Katrina showed- an incompetent who wasn't held accountable. I don't think anybody wants him.
Michael Chertoff has the look of a Jewish Adolph Eichmann and as Katrina showed- an incompetent who wasn't held accountable. I don't think anybody wants him.
I suppose it would be too much to hope for some vigorous exhumation of the whole Florida 2000 thing in Terwilliger's confirmation hearings. Along the lines of, "So, your supporters on the Internet seem to think your greatest qualification for the job of Attorney General is your ability to steal elections. Mr. Terwilliger, how would you rate your competence in the field of election theft?"
My favorite part of the article was this line:
"Now [Republicans are] using the controversy over the firing of eight federal prosecutors to take out their pent-up frustrations with how he has handled his leadership at Justice and how the White House has treated Congress."
Aren't the Republicans a couple years too late to be angered over how the White House expanded and wielded executive power? They're acting as if this happened in a vacuum and not with their explicit consent. Maybe, if they had made some tiny effort at oversight in all those years they had control of Congress, they might not have let the Bush administration walk all over them.
I am so glad that the Democrats have subpoena power.
Dubya's ultimate revenge on Dems in this matter may be to just insist Gonzalez stays come what may. It wouldn't be unprecedented stubborness on his part for after all he sent 3300 U.S. soldiers die for nothing. I won't be the least bit surprised if Gonzalez weathers this storm.
Yglesias, people in glass houses ...
Dubya's ultimate revenge on Dems in this matter may be to just insist Gonzalez stays come what may.
Um...Boo hoo? Anyone fingered to replace Gonzales will be a political hack, so what's the diff?
The Cossacks work for the Czar. More and more of what comes out shows that Rove, at the very least, was in this up to his neck. So let the person who's actually responsible for these shenanigans, the President, keep his houseboy if he wants. Otherwise, the problem has been "solved" and everyone has to move on. This happened with Rumsfeld, and it will happen if Gonzales is replaced by Terwilliger, by Michael "Patriot Act" Chertoff, or by David "The Constitution says George W. Bush is an Unaccountable Emperor" Addington. Let them dig in, instead of changing the subject again.
"Terwilliger bunts one."
Annie Dillard's mother adopted this phrase as her personal catchall expression after overhearing it on the radio and asking, "Is that even English?"
Is he related to Sideshow Bob?
I'm a "III," too, but I don't advertise it, except where there might be some possibility of confusion (To make matters worse, my father was known by anyone who knew my grandfather as "Junior." People calling my house and using his and my actual real first name would get a "which one?" followed by lots of confusion over whether "Junior" meant me or my father or whether "Senior" meant my father or my grandfather.) A "III" sounds even sillier from a non-WASP.
Michael Chertoff is a Jewish Adolph Eichmann and as Katrina showed- an incompetent who wasn't held accountable. - trevor
Your statement makes no sense. Eichmann was, for all his "banality", supremely competent at what he did.
BTW ... you are aware of the Eichmann/Zionist connections, aren't you? They not only provide tons of fun fodder for anti-Zionists, but they also make a key point of the Zionists: if Israel would have existed in, say 1937, no German Jew would have been killed in the Holocaust.
Of course, the real take home of this is that, if you want to prevent a genocide, the most effective way to do so is not by going off, half-cocked, to depose "the next Hitler" (even worse to do so some 15-25 years after the freakin' ethnic cleansing has already occured: way to go Bushie!), but rather to allow refugees into your country. Israel, by its very cause for existance did that with Jewish refugees. India and Pakestan largely absorbed the refugees from their partition. We forced Germany to do that with the German refugees from the east post-WWII. So why does Israel get blamed for the Arabs not having done so in the late 1940s?
Oops ... I hope I didn't just derail the thread. Can someone posit a corrolary of Godwin's rule w.r.t. Zionism? See, the evil Zionist conspiracy does control everything ;) ... and we'll thread-jack you at will ;)
You Can Call Me Al
Damn, I thought the post was going to be about me. Really is "Terwilliger" THAT bad a name? Nobody says the middle initial or suffix out loud, so those things are irrelevant. If he has a Jewish middle name (George Felix Allen) or an Arab middle name (Barack Hussein Obama), I promise to make fun of him, though.
Most of the people on that list are members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I can't imagine a Dem Senate approving J. Terwilliger, Silberman, Olson, Chertoff and the rest. They have too much dirt on them.
"Your statement makes no sense. Eichmann was, for all his "banality", supremely competent at what he did." (DAS)
What I meant to say about Chertoff is that he's a soulless cog in the machine. I've actually met Chertoff in a social setting and he's a pluperfect government zero. The type that could order mass murder with a nod from his superior.
The type that could order mass murder with a nod from his superior. - Trevor
Fair enough. Never met the guy myself, but from what I can tell and what I've heard, I'll believe it. But do ya really think that he could successfully order that mass murder? See that's what separates him from Eichmann ...
Or does it? Perhaps the very incompetence of this admin is strategic? If Chertoff was given a nod from his superior to be competent he would, but he was given the nod to be incompetent? Hmmm ... people used to joke about GOoPers being bad at governance in order to show that gummint can't do anything right, but maybe that's actually the case (and not just on a sub-conscious, one always meets lowered expectations level) with this admin? At the very least, there sure is money for someone in incompetence -- after all, whatever did happen to the missing money in Iraq?
And speaking of money and DHS: did y'all catch the guy who wrote that book on Blackwater on Fresh Air yesterday? Wow! The whole thing is frightening (and talk about money disappearing into who know who's hands). But what wasn't asked (unless I missed it) was the big question: is having private "armies" like Blackwater not only a way to enrich war profiteers but also a way (consider their deployment in NOLA) around Posse Commetatus (sp?)? Makes ya go "hmmmmm", don't it?
Really is "Terwilliger" THAT bad a name?
I found that odd too. I'm pretty used to the name, since Wayne Terwilliger was a longtime coach for the Minnesota Twins. His nickname is "twig," so if Matthew finds that easier to type, we could stick with that for the AG.
Mort Kondracke, the centrist Democrat on Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume just questioned Gonzalez's IQ. Maybe he isn't that smart. In his case, being a minority and a long-time, loyal Bush ally probably trumped pure intellect and merit.
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Heads in the Sand
Dude, this is not the season in which we on the left need to be picking fights over people's funny names! I mean, it is objectively funny, true. But faced with the choice, based on name alone, what percentage of America would place their future in the hands of Barack Hussein Obama over George J. Terwilliger III?
Posted by Christopher M | March 19, 2007 10:33 PM