Withdrawal

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It looks like Bill Mercer, the U.S. Attorney for Montana, has decided to withdraw his name from consideration for the Associate Attorney General position in the Department of Justice.

This is according to a STORY on the AP wire.

Mercer had been nominated way back in September 2006. He was a great choice and I was proud that a Montanan was chosen for a high position in the Justice Department.

But there were problems in the DoJ and with his boss, Attorney General Gonzales, making some tactical errors, the Democrats smelled blood and are holding investigative hearings after investigative hearings. The writing was on the wall and he had no support from Montana’s two U.S. Senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester.

Mercer will probably come back to Montana and be the U.S. Attorney full time – a U.S. Attorney who was recommended by a Republican which probably makes Baucus and Tester hope that a democrat is elected as President in November 2008, so they can have their say about who from our great state gets this important position next.

2 thoughts on “Withdrawal”

  1. Thanks for your comments. I enjoy reading your blog. I wish mine was half as good. I don’t think you know me well enough from reading this blog to determine if I’d be thinking any different if Mercer was a democrat. At least we’d know that Baucus and Tester would fight for him as well as the MT Democrats. They circle the wagons better than anyone for their own which is something the repubs could learn from. If the Republican majority in September 2006 would have fought to get Mercer confirmed, he would not be in this situation, but they failed. So, I also see it as the Republican’s fault for not forcing the issue and then Gonzales has screwed up time and time again to make it rougher on people like Mercer. I do like to see Montanans do well in this world of big time politics-be it democrats, republicans, etc.Thanks again for visiting.

  2. I am going to have to call foul on that. FOUL!If he were a democrat and held two positions, one in DC and one here and neglected the latter, just as Mercer did you would not be so damn proud of him.Hypocrisy? Go figure.

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