January 8, 2005

DANGEROUS DEMOCRATIC ROOKIES:

An inauspicious beginning for Salazar (Mike Littwin, January 8, 2005, Rocky Mountain News)

I'm not sure what the record is, but let's give Ken Salazar, Colorado's new senator, the benefit of the doubt.

What we do know is that it took Salazar less than one week on the job to be co-opted by the White House. And that has to be, at the very least, close to the new-guy-in-town speed mark.

It happened in plain sight. All you had to do was turn on C-SPAN Thursday morning and watch Salazar introducing Alberto Gonzales to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Gonzales is, of course, the president's counsel and his nominee for attorney general.

There are other descriptions of Gonzales available.


If Senators Salazar and Obama aren't automatrons they'll quickly become public enemies #1 & #2 for the Left.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2005 6:55 PM
Comments

"They are supposed to be our automatons! We bought and paid for them! How dare they try to think for themselves or behave in a civil manner!"

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 8, 2005 8:06 PM

Salazar wants to get re-elected. His predecessor, Campbell, was probably about at the right issue mix to be re-elected in perpetuity. Salazar, from a middle-income property-owning Hispanic family that has been in the US since forever, has no reason to jump into bed with the Hollywood weirdos.

Posted by: Bart at January 8, 2005 8:32 PM

Salazar got elected by running as a conservative; water rights, gun rights, police (union) endorsements, tough on terror, etc. Coors was, well, Lite. And when you've decided to vote for one Salazar, why not the other (for the House seat)?

His endorsement of Gonzales is a good start for him; beyond racial solidarity, it shows him to be serious about keeping his job.

Lesson for conservatives: BSUR.

Posted by: Noel at January 9, 2005 4:43 PM

By our pathetic modern standards, Obama's a great rhetorician. Apart from nice talk, however, I have yet to see evidence that he's not a Marxist automaton.

Posted by: Random Lawyer at January 9, 2005 4:49 PM
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