Gonzales Speaks, America Weeps

The brand spanky new U.S. Attorney General got to speak about his brand spanky new agenda, and I think it's pretty messed up. Violence and human trafficking are bad, but besides that, I think the rest of his agenda is pretty goofy.

He wants to pursue obscenity cases more better. Evidently he feels that "people who distribute obscene material do not enjoy constituional guarantees of free speech." If that's the way he feels, we might as well re-write the First Amendment. You know what's obscene? George Bush and his incompentence. Yeah, he should prosecute that instead.

Also on the list:

• Ending Senate blocking of judicial nominees, a
  “broken process that must be fixed” before there
  is a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
  
  Yeah, that whole thingy about one party making sure the other one doesn't get too much power. That's SO passe.
  
  
• Renewing provisions of the USA Patriot Act that are
  setto expire at the end of the year, saying the law
  has been an important tool in preventing terror
  attacks in the United States.
  
  I haven't really heard about one terror attack that the Patriot Act prevented. But somebody, puh-lease let me know if I'm wrong.
  
  And my personal favorite
  
  
• Amending the Constitution to give crime victims the
  right to participate in prosecutions and sentencings.
  
  There is so much wrong with that I don't even know where to begin. Isn't the intent of the law for justice to be administered fairly and uniformly across the board by competent judges and impartial juries? Why would we want to outsource some of that to very partial and biased victims? That's the craziest thing I've heard all day. Who is this Gonzales guy, and who gave him a law degree? I've never even taken one law class really, and even I know that's ridiculous.