The Return of the Crisco Kid

Ruth Marcus:

Alberto Gonzales is achieving something remarkable, even miraculous, as attorney general: He is making John Ashcroft look good.

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There is no polite way to put this: Gonzales doesn't seem to have an adequate grasp of what's happening in his own department or much influence in setting administration policy.

To apply the Peter Principle to Gonzales (and most members of the Cheney administration) would be to assume he was competent to begin with. And there's no evidence for that assumption.


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