November 10, 2004
Yglesias Defends Ashcroft
Here's a qualified defense of Ashcroft that is well worth reading. I, for one, didn't know that Ashcroft thinks calico cats are the tools of Satan. Even so, it makes me think that perhaps I've been a bit harder on him than justified, a fact that I'm sure keeps him awake a night crying into his pillow. When there's so much incompetence and venality in an administration, it gets difficult to keep the outrage from washing over all its members.
As with most Yglesias posts, there's a lot of interesting info in the comments, which talks about a lot of annoying things Ashcroft was doing that I wasn't even aware of. That said, fair enough. Ashcroft himself doesn't seem to have done much damage.
Ashcroft is not a mean-spirited man, but his policies are .... well, let's just say I won't miss his ass