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...political moderate and tend to disagree with many of former Sen. John D Ashcroft’s conservative views (“A Mixed Bush Cabinet,” Editorial, Jan. 5). However, the confirmation of an attorney general should be based on her or his ability to enforce the law. Ashcroft served as Missouri attorney general for nine years and governor of Missouri for eight years. In these nearly two decades, he was never accused of poorly enforcing the law and was repeatedly re-elected. The reasons The Crimson and other far-left activists espouse for rejecting his nomination...
...Since he was first mentioned as a candidate for President-elect Bush's Cabinet, Ashcroft has inspired a groundswell of left-wing hand-wringing not seen since Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearing a decade ago. The former Missouri senator, whose seat was won in November by the late Mel Carnahan and is now occupied by Carnahan's widow, has a long and well-known history of conservative boosterism - but until recently, his ideology never made national headlines...
Determined to avoid any persistent gaps in his Cabinet seating chart, George W. Bush wasted no time replacing Linda Chavez as his nominee for labor secretary...
...allegations that she'd harbored an illegal immigrant, the President-elect named Elaine Chao as his new nominee to head the Labor Department. Bush also announced Robert Zoellick, a veteran of Republican State and Treasury Departments, as his nominee for the post of U.S. trade representative, also a Cabinet position...
...confirmed, Chao will, in Bush's words, "bring great compassion and a commitment to helping people build better lives" to her Cabinet post. And few doubt Chao will, in fact, take office. Even before she was officially nominated, Republican senators were promoting her candidacy far and wide. "I support Elaine Chao," Tennessee's Bill Frist told reporters Wednesday. "She would certainly be confirmed." Some even call Chao's relative inexperience in the labor arena an asset for the Bush team - sometimes during the confirmation process the only good record is no record...