Ashcroft's confirmation is old news, and his sins have been widely chronicled. But I'm still shaking my head at the chutzpah of Republicans. Republicans once cared so much about character and truthful testimony. Ashcroft signaled his fitness to serve as AG by promising not to act on his convictions. Of course, no one on either side believed him.
Political nihilism is nothing new, but to see it flourish among moral absolutists is disorienting.
When moralists like John Ashcroft or Antonin Scalia devolve into political hacks, they hold tight to their exquisite sanctimony. Soon she'll be acting less like Lady Hillary and more like Senator Clinton. Or maybe they're multitasking. In any case, I'm confused. Combine the spectacle of these political chameleons with the stridently oppositional worldviews of idealists left and right, and you spark an explosion of cognitive dissonance.