Senator Norm Coleman can answer Tiziana's question
I'll say one thing for Senator Coleman--he responds to his constituents quickly. So when I wrote him asking for him to vote 'no' regarding Gonzales' confirmation, it didn't take long for me to hear back from him. (Those of you who follow Minnesota politics will not be surprised by what follows.)
Senator Coleman informed me that he felt that President Bush had the right to choose his own advisors and that, absent evidence of "moral turpitude", he would support the President's choice of nominees. He did not address the issue I was most concerned about, Gonzales' advice regarding torture.
This from Thursday's Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"Sen. Norm Coleman said Wednesday he was not willing to support Homeland Security nominee Michael Chertoff because of security funding cuts to the Twin Cities, signaling a rare public breach with the Bush administration."
Note that Chertoff, not yet working for the DHS, of course had nothing to do with this funding decision. Nonetheless, the good Senator felt this was "so personal" that he had to threaten (because in all honestly, the likelihood is he won't go through with it) a "protest vote".
Chertoff, too, has been questioned about his role in the torture cases; not by Coleman. Approving the use of torture is irrelevant; but cutting off a nice hunk of pork just might rise to the level of "moral turpitude". So...did this Republican do "the wrong thing for the wrong reasons", as Tiziana asked? You be the judge.
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Perhaps it would be good to save the letter from Colemen, especially remembering the part "Senator Coleman informed me that he felt that President Bush had the right to choose his own advisors and that, absent evidence of "moral turpitude", he would support the President's choice of nominees." Assuming that the people of Minnesota make another mistake and reelect this xxx, he may get to apply the same criteria for a Democratic nominee some day.
I attended Hofstra University from 1968-1972. Of course, I knew Norman Coleman, as he was one of the most vocal campus radicals. In the summer of 1970, I bumped into him at the Paradiso club in Amsterdam, which of course was a hotbed of legal drug-dealing (that's why everyone went there.) Hope Norm had a nice trip - I sure did!
Imagine my shock and horror when I found out that this opportunistic a**hole had been elected Senator from Minnesota on a strong pro-life platform! At first, I thought it must just be someone with the same name, but when I saw his picture, I knew it was indeed Norman Coleman, former student radical. His shoulder-length hair was gone, but otherwise, he looked exactly the same. I remember pacing back and forth in my chiropractor's office, ranting and raving to my husband on my cell phone about this latest affront to everything we believe in.
No wonder Norm had to move to Minnesota to get elected.His act would not have flown here in New York, where a lot of people knew him back when he was a hippie radical. What a piece of s***!
Norm Coleman is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!
Even tho I'm stuck in NY with a
bunch of idiots like H. Clinton,
Schumer, Rangel, I am somewhat
heartened that people like
Norm Coleman are able to take on
the quacks, crooks and kooks in the
DIM oc RAT ick potty!
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