Monday, August 27, 2007

Paul Clement   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

is on the list of possible replacements, according to Fox (and my understanding is he will at least be interim acting AG). I am a huge Clement fan. I can't imagine the president would be putting him to best use making him attorney general — dealing with the heated politics and the bureaucracy and silly senators. I'm counting on him being the next Catholic dude on the Court. Can you imagine the reaction at the PFAW etc? I'd forgive and forget everything and anything and love George W. Bush forever just to be able to see the reaction.

Seriously though: Clement must be an attractive choice for the president. Especially given putting Chertoff there would be replacing incompetence (Gonzales) with at the very least perceived incompetence (Chertoff).

Fairly or unfairly, the White House would be creating another public-relations disaster if Michael Chertoff is the pick. Katrina, immigration, a newly created mess of a bureaucracy — surely there are less-ugly hearing options. 

08/27 08:58 AMShare