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The 2024 Vilification of an Attorney General Nominee
The 2024 Vilification of an Attorney General Nominee
The 2024 Vilification of an Attorney General Nominee - Illinois Review
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The infuriating story of the Matt Gaetz nomination is a learning opportunity,
President Trump nominated Congressman Gaetz to be Attorney General, and the deep state understandably went ballistic, because Gaetz doesn’t mind making enemies; he would clearly enjoy doing exactly what needs to be done at the Dept of Justice.
There are four broad categories that must be fixed at Justice:
It has too many bureaus, too many agencies, some of which are outright destructive. Most department heads zealously defend the size of their budgets and sizes, even if they want to retool them. A good AG will make the case to Congress that these destructive offices need to be permanently shut down.
Too many current employees have the wrong priorities – either working on behalf of the criminal element or otherwise unconstitutionally overregulating the areas under their control, such as Justice’s ongoing harassment of good local and state police. A good AG will work to fire as many of these as possible. And the ones we can’t fire, we can defang.
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Finally, the DoJ is filled with malicious actors who use the power of the state to attack innocents with whom they disagree, from a quiet Idaho farmer like Randy Weaver to a former president like Donald Trump. These villains need to be both fired and prosecuted wherever appropriate, and replaced by honorable public servants who will obey the Constitution and honor their duty to uphold the rule of law. A mass firing of all prior US attorneys is standard practice at the beginning of a new administration, but we need much more, a top-to-bottom cleansing of the agency, clearing out the termites in the bureaucracy as well as the obvious political positions.
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The President must take two courses of action, and both are critical:
First, Matt Gaetz must be raised up, not knocked down. He needs to either be appointed to the Senate or appointed to a major administration post that doesn’t need Senate approval, so that the Left will have failed to destroy their target. We need to recall the classis Star Wars moment at which Darth Vader kills Obiwan Kenobe: “Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”
And second, the eventual nominee must be even more of a pit bull than Matt Gaetz would have been. Pam Bondi shows great promise, but this is a high standard. Her broad experience holding the same office at the state level would indicate that she’s readier for the administrative side of the job than Gaetz was. But will she be the tenacious fighter on the office’s other challenges? It’s possible, and we must certainly hope so.
Because the only way to stop the Left from Borking our best nominees is if we always take this approach. Fight until they’re confirmed if possible, but if not – if they succeed in defeating the nomination – then we must both elevate the person they beat, and select ever-tougher replacement nominees every time.
The American people deserve to see the concept of Borking brought to an end. And the only way to stop the Left from doing it is if they realize, every time, that the first choice is the best nominee they’re going to get, and if they knock this one off, they’ll always be sure to regret doing so.
Commentary:
Great article. Di Leo nailed the problem right on the head. Conservatives need to man up and not let the turd rollers nail our best nominees. The Neo=Marxist Democrat fascist need to nail Trump and all of his nominees. Trump is a threat to their only reliable voter base. Illegal alien foreigners.
Undoubtedly, any nominee will undergo microscopic investigation be the Neo-Marxist Dems.
Just as they piled on the innuendo and perjured lies that the DoJ foisted on Matt Gaetz
Even if Pam Bondi is squeaky clean, I'm sure they'll come up with something to smear her with.
