They really scraped the bottom of the barrel when they came up with this loser. I thought that the position of Attorney General had hit rock bottom when that weirdo Ashcroft was installed, but apparently the Bush Administration, in every endeavor, strives to reach new lows. You have to wonder about the so-called "leadership" in this country that appoints such subhuman crap to important positions, and then the "representatives" who then confirm them. If this jerkoff passed approval of the U.S. Congress, maybe the voters would do well to replace every single member of that august body ASAP.

OK, this guy should not be our attorney general. Why? Because he provided the 'legal' cover for these practices (quote courtesy of independent blogger Andrew Sullivan): Let's retire at the start the notion that the only torture that has been used by the U.S. has been against known members of al Qaeda. This is not true. Many innocent men and boys were raped, brutally beaten, crucified for hours (a more accurate term than put in stress positions), left in their own excrement, sodomized, electrocuted, had chemicals from fluorescent lights poured on them, forced to lie down on burning metal till they were unrecognizable from burns - all this in Iraq alone, at several prisons as well as Abu Ghraib. Anybody getting outraged yet? I sure as F*** am. Or will we put our politics over humanity, over our morality? For all you realpolitikers out there, do you think these practices are helping our efforts in Iraq, helping our soldiers? Anyone see the quote from the Iraqi director of security that the size of the insurgency is now estimated at 200K, bigger than our forces? Anyone think that our savage, illegal, and disastrous (from a pr standpoint) interrogation practices has stoked the insurgency? We are losing this goddamned war, and it's not because of our soldiers.

Yeah... I just love torturing people... What a joke! The guy who tells Bush to ignore the Geneva Convention is now our Attorney General. So much for civil rights. Hope you neo-cons like burning the Constitution for heat.

Well, I'll give him a chance. But so far, I think his appointment was mostly political and not up to par to replace Ashcroft. I do believe Ashcroft was a good attorney general (certainly better than Janet Reno) and I hope and pray Gonzales doesn't pull a fast one on Bush or on the American people.

Pro-choicers will be overjoyed at his nomination, hispanics should be brought closer to the republican tent by it. He'll have a much less contentious time, fewer critics than the very conservative Ashcroft did, at least until they begin confirmation hearings.

I'm pleased with the Gonzales appointment, a welcome improvement from his predecessor. It's been rare for the Bush administration to admit a mistake, so bravo to Bush for having Cheney tell Ashcroft to go fire himself (one can only imagine). Though it's really too early to rate Gonzales, something tells me we'll see fewer attacks on the US Constitution and our cherished civil liberties.