What's pragmatic about protesting for or going on a hunger strike to promote the confirmation of a bureaucrat who holds worse views than her predecessor? Staying home I could understand. Letting Obama know that if this was his choice he'd fight his own battles I could understand. But lining up in support of someone who's likely to move issues like the war on drugs, police militarization, sentencing reform and asset forfeiture backwards strikes me as anything but pragmatic.
What's practical about telling the president you'll support his choice when supporting his choice means going backward in time, getting more drug raids, more heavily-armed police, more taking from the innocent not yet proven guilty and seeing terribly-needed sentencing reform sent to take a seat in the back of the bus?
People complain about the sorry state of politics, the out-of-control police and the uneven justice on one hand, and support the ascension of a career politician who will quite likely make all those issues worse on the other hand. That seems more partisan than pragmatic to me.
I just don't get it.
Yes, I see that you don't and that's a big slice of Sad Pie, but there's nothing I can do about.
It's really quite simple. However, you insist on making it complicated, which is why you don't "get it." Dubya's former
A.G. Alberto Gonzales (hardly one of my favorites) explains it all for you:
“I think people forget that the attorney general, while he or she may be the chief law-enforcement officer in the country, is also part of the president’s team and I don’t think the president is going to nominate someone who goes against part of his policies.”
Get it now? When Don becomes POTUS you can name Ron Paul as your attorney general and you will be within the scope of your authority. Obama didn't conduct a poll before he chose Lynch. He chose someone he thought would be on his team and rowing in the same direction along with the rest of the team.
Loretta Lynch. Team Player. That's the facts, Jack. Don't dig it? Sorry, but that's all we got and that's all you're gonna get.
Loretta Lynch
is the Attorney General of the United States of America and your Chicken Little apocalyptic predictions of dogs sleeping with cats aside, she will be until the new President is sworn in.
Deal with it. Or don't.