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Bush started out on the wrong track by appointing Gale R. Norton and former Sen. John D. Ashcroft to the posts of Interior Secretary and Attorney General. Norton has earned the ire of conservation groups concerned about her environmental record as Colorado's attorney general and her advocacy of oil exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. And the Ashcroft appointment has justifiably angered those who oppose the nominee's past efforts against desegregation in Missouri, his hardline position on abortion, his willingness to blur the line between church and state and his disgraceful interventions to block two Clinton appointees...
...Attorney General, told astonished Senators at his confirmation hearing that he would "aggressively" enforce abortion laws and wouldn't challenge the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, even though he has spent much of his career trying to overturn it. In another hearing room, Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton, a James Watt disciple who used to champion the rights of oil companies and mine operators, insisted that she's now a tree-hugging naturalist who believes in global warming and has a soft spot for the Endangered Species...
...makeovers appear to be doing their job. Norton and Ashcroft are both likely to win enough votes for confirmation. And conservative groups, who know how the game is played, aren't worried that their two favorite nominees have strayed. "I don't think Ashcroft has changed his position on abortion," says David O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee. Democrats don't believe it either. You'd have to be from Mars to buy a story like that...
...Confederacy become the sleeper issue of 2001? In John Ashcroft's nomination for Attorney General and Gale Norton's for Interior Secretary, the Civil War has appeared like one of those weekend battle re-enactments with folks in period costume. Ashcroft is under fire for giving an interview to a pro-Confederate magazine, Southern Partisan, in which he praised icons like Jefferson Davis while lauding the publication for helping "set the record straight." Two columnists for the magazine are members of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a self-styled "white-rights" group based in St. Louis, Mo., which is part...
...Norton joined the Civil War in 1996, when she gave a speech to a conservative group saying "we lost too much" when the South was defeated. "We lost the idea that the states were to stand against the Federal Government gaining too much power over our lives," she added. Norton wasn't defending slavery; she referred to it as "bad facts" in the case for states' rights. Indeed, George W. Bush makes a good point when he says it's ridiculous to describe Norton as pro-slavery. But N.A.A.C.P. head Julian Bond also makes a good point when he labels...