General Meese on Ted Kennedy: "Totally Hypocritical"
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Today Brian Burch (the co-founder of Fidelis) interviewed Formal Attorney General Ed Meese for our Podcast covering Judge Alito's confirmation hearings.
You can listen to the interview by clicking
HERE.
General Meese shared some very blunt thoughts about Senator Kennedy attacking Judge Alito over the Vanguard recusal:
QUESTION:
On a separate note, Senator Kennedy and others have attacked Judge Alito's ethics in regard to the Vanguard recusal issue. In light of Judge Alito's responses and the fact that the ABA did review this issue, and gave him a unanimmous well-qualified rating, how would you describe these attacks?
ANSWER:
I would say again the attacks are political and it's totally hypocritical and false for anybody like Senator Kennedy, of all people, to question anyone's ethics, in view of his own past background. So, I think it is just politics and I think the ABA rating of well-qualified, their highest rating, which was unanimous, really says it all about Judge Alito.
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"General" Meese?
I've heard of "Attorney General" or "AG" but I can't say I've ever heard of a former AG being referred to as "General."
Shall we also skip the "Vice" for Cheney?
It is utter confusing how Senator Kennedy can question a Judge Altio on his ethics. History aside, Senator Kennedy continues to quote the Professor Sunstein study which states Judge Alito ruled against individuals in 84 percent of his dissents.
How can the Senator present to the nation purported facts from a study that questions its own credibility?
Professor Sunstein's comments that the methodology in determining whether Judge Alito ruled against the individual was "admittedly imperfect;" his reminder he is not saying Judge Alito should be confirmed or not, and the Professor's clarification that his findings are "tentative and preliminary" are important footnotes rarely heard alongside the 84% statistic.
What? Kennedy? Unethical? By the way Democrats have been behaving the past 50 years, you would think it was totally acceptable to be a deceiving (Kennedy), adulterous (Clinton, and yet another Kennedy), racist(Senator Byrd, anyone?). I think this is why it has become so shocking to liberals like Kennedy that good, honest men exist. Regardless of the fact that Alito has received the highest ratings from the ABA, has been more fair in his judgements, and has served for years as a public servant, Kennedy has the audicity to preach to him about "ethics." That's it...hell's frozen over! We'll have to ice-skate home.
I was wondering if the Surgeon General gets to be called a general too.
I was shocked when I realized that this supposed nominee has ruled against one side or the other in 100% of his cases.
Can't see all the nuance because he is so far out of the mainstream.
Not that it matters, really, but I seem to recall that the Attorney General, the Surgeon General, and, possibly, even the Postmaster General actually hold the military rank of "General" of whichever military service they served in. I believe they are even entitled to wear the unform of that service with the rank of General upon it, or Admiral, as the case with the Navy would be.
I know this is true for the Surgeon General.
As I said... not that it matters.
Longstreet
We say "attorneys general", and not "attorney generals"?
Do you get your poetic license from a poetic justice? ;)
...but I see no link to add to my podcatcher. Am I missing it (not out of the question)?
wears a uniform because he's the head of a uniformed service -- the U.S. Public Health Service. This is not true for the Justice Department or the U.S.P.S.
It's not a military rank, but I think any <insert title here: Postmaster, Attorney, Surgeon> General can properly be called "General".
The more that we give the more that they want
and yet, they come, yet they come.
the new joe McCarthy ascends to his roost
and yet, they come, yet they come.
Our rights to opinion are fading away
and yet, they come, yet they come.
Pray God leave us standing at end of the day
and yet, they come, yet they come.