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...John Ashcroft ATTORNEY GENERAL He led the fight against a respected black nominee to the federal bench. He's staunchly pro-life. That honorary degree from Bob Jones University isn't going to help...
...some ways, Linda Chavez is more vulnerable than Ashcroft. She doesn't enjoy the professional courtesy that Ashcroft does as a former Senator, and for the moment, activists put her as their No. 2 target. In fact, some Republicans were surprised at Bush's choice for the Labor Department, because it could come at such high cost. That Chavez is a Hispanic woman may not help Bush if many Hispanics and women object to her views. "For the life of me, that doesn't make any sense," says an adviser to the Bush campaign. "She is hated by the constituency...
...chair to position a rescue for a pregnant woman about to topple. There was barely space for the bouquet of lilies sent by Missouri's senior Senator, Kit Bond, or the senatorial documents already arriving. Her first headline event is the confirmation hearings of Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, the Carnahan family's longtime political adversary, whom her husband beat for the Senate seat. About Ashcroft's hearings, she will only say she's open-minded, but it's doubtful he is counting on her vote...
...Education," Henry Adams called it "the systematic organization of hatreds." That's an accurate description of what's coming this week with the Ashcroft and Norton confirmation hearings...
...That's how I feel when I contemplate, on the one hand, the unclean, unsatisfactory records of Gale Norton and John Ashcroft, and on the other hand, the baying politburo of correctness (NOW and the People for the American Way, and all the rest) that is arrayed against Norton and Ashcroft, ready to throw acid in their faces. What a collection altogether...