Giuliani Popularity Leaves New Yorkers Wondering

    It would seem that many of the citizens of New York are wondering why Rudolph Giuliani is so popular with the voters outside of the city.

   Many residents are fond of the job that Giuliani did with 9/11 but they also remember the way he was before 9/11 came into being and they are wondering how Giuliani  will do on the world stage what with his brashness and hot temper.

Reuters

"He was mean-spirited, he was harsh, but I'm not sure that hurts him on the Republican national stage," said former city councilman Stephen DiBrienza, a Democrat who calls Giuliani the "most divisive elected official in modern history."

"One can only hope that the arrogance of power he displayed and the abuse of process his administration often engaged in will not be mistaken for leadership," said DiBrienza, who now lectures on government at Baruch College in New York

   Mean-spirited and harsh? If that is the case, the Mr. Giuliani should fit right in with the Republican branch of incompetence. He may even get a new fan in Ann Coulter and that Rush character and maybe even that O'Reilly clown!

 

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White House Caves In To Attorney Reforms?

   After all of the flack for firing US Attorneys for basically no reason, the Bush Crime Family is changing some of their ways in dealing with such matters.

AP         March 9,2007

LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

Just hours after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dismissed the hubbub as an "overblown personnel matter," a Republican senator Thursday mused into a microphone that Gonzales might soon suffer the same fate as the canned U.S. attorneys.

"One day there will be a new attorney general, maybe sooner rather than later," Sen. Arlen Specter ( voting record), R-Pa., said during a Judiciary Committee meeting.

A short time later, Gonzales and his security detail shuttled to the Capitol for a private meeting on Democratic turf, bearing two offerings:

_President Bush would not stand in the way of a Democratic-sponsored bill that would cancel the attorney general's power to appoint federal prosecutors without Senate confirmation. Gonzales' Justice Department had previously dismissed the legislation as unreasonable.

_There would be no need for subpoenas to compel testimony by five of Gonzales' aides involved in the firings, as the Democrats had threatened. Cloistered in the stately hideaway of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., the attorney general assured those present that he would permit the aides to tell their stories.

 

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