Comments on: Why Janet Napolitano Is Right For Attorney General

By: kittykitty

kittykitty — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:36:43 +0000

How about Eliot Spitzer for DOJ? and Hillary should be Secy of health and human services. maybe she could finally get the healthcare plan she wanted in 93. But she’s probably better off in the senate. Can’t lose too many dem senators to the white house all at once. No telling who’d take their places in a weird climate like this.

By: johnsonua

johnsonua — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:27:21 +0000

bmaz says:

Hey, I am not dismissive; I am one of those here in Arizona that will be lessened by her loss. The fears are absolutely real. All I am saying is that sometimes there are bigger concerns and we have to be willing to allocate scarce precious resources to maximize the good.

Arizona will be run by reactionary Republicans like Russell Pearce: count on the Universities getting gutted, K-12 schools getting gutted, ACCESS getting gutted, and then they’ll go and lower taxes, because that’s the sovereign Republican cure for everything.

But don’t worry, everyone will be allowed to carry concealed machine guns so they can shoot the illegal immigrants, while reciting the Bible, because that’s what’s important.

My opinion is that Janet leaving for DC will put Arizona a good four to six years behind the rest of the country in any sort of economic recovery, because after two years of Republican-lead chainsawing through the state budget, there won’t be much left to build back up.

Schools, roads, everything will be shot and we’ll have a hard time convincing companies with good jobs to come here…

Pretty damn steep price to pay.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:49:23 +0000

John Edwards has no criminal justice experience whatsoever, nor any experience managing a huge bureaucracy. I like the guy, but he would be a horrendous choice. Not to mention he is a leper right now. This is a job for competence not personality.

By: iconoclasm12

iconoclasm12 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:44:43 +0000

i wish obama would consider john edwards for ag. then when he gets the moral majority questioning his choice he would have the opportunity to combat some of these tactics used on bill clinton and others since, as if…

By: rosalind

rosalind — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:30:21 +0000

“Clinton Administration veteran David Ogden is leading the transition team for the Justice Department”

does this news give us any hint as to what direction obama is leaning?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:51:45 +0000

If Obama and the DNC had deployed some assets here, we might have pulled it off anyway. Thing is, I keep telling people, it may change the other way, but the word I have heard is that she is intrigued by DC and that she has pretty much decided to go; it is a question of where. At this moment, I don’t think it is a stay or go, it is a question of where she goes. That could change or that could be wrong; but several different decent sources that are in a position to know have said just that. Keep in mind that I thought the vote on Presidential here was going to be a hell of a lot closer than it ended up being; so my local batting average took a recent downturn…

By: Parvis

Parvis — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:36:42 +0000

Janet’s totally capable, but I think she’s needed more in AZ. Not just to keep out the psycho Sec of State, but also because the great job she does is one of the major factors driving AZ blue. If not for the home effect you might have seen AZ go for Obama this year.

By: TheraP

TheraP — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:59:44 +0000

It’s good to get info like this from a very trustworthy source. Thanks, bmaz!

By: Ishh

Ishh — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:11:06 +0000

Okay, I agree. I think she’d be a great pick.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:09:19 +0000

Hey, I am not dismissive; I am one of those here in Arizona that will be lessened by her loss. The fears are absolutely real. All I am saying is that sometimes there are bigger concerns and we have to be willing to allocate scarce precious resources to maximize the good. And short of the war stoppage, arguably nothing is more pressing than the justice system right now (remember it is critical to everything, including cleaning up the financial mess). Not dismissive in the least; I agree with Katymine, I just feel that, relatively speaking we can survive for a period and the immediate needs at DOJ are too great and far outweigh our concerns here. We have been run by right wing idiots forever here (save for Babbitt and Napolitano); it will hurt in a few areas, but not that much and it is fixable. DOJ is in dire straits.