John Cornyn has an April Fool's joke for us all.
The same guy who ran this campaign ad last year, has decided that President Obama's nominee to head the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel (home of lawyers who tell the president what he can and cannot do, or, in the Bush Administration, why the president can do whatever he wants to do), is not sufficiently serious.
I shit you not.
Seriously, in today's (4/1/09) New York Times, Cornyn complains that Dawn Johnsen doesn't have the "requisite seriousness" for the job.
Apparently, she said mean things about the war criminals lawyers who worked for Bush.
Too bad for Cornyn they're true.
But then again, Cornyn's always been an arbiter of seriousness, a paragon of law-abiding virtue, and a true believer in the rule of law, as some guy on some blog caught him saying on the Senate floor a few years ago:
"I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that's been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in - engage in violence."
(from a post on some blog, by some guy named Markos or something.)
Do you suppose it's too much to ask that when people swear an oath to defend the Constitution, they actually understand or believe it?