{"id":2991,"date":"2004-11-10T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2991.html"},"modified":"2004-11-10T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T16:46:42","slug":"that-was-quick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/that-was-quick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"That was quick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House didn&#8217;t even wait 24 hours before leaking word about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A39431-2004Nov10.html\">John Ashcroft&#8217;s replacement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush is moving swiftly toward naming a successor to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has emerged as the leading candidate. <\/p>\n<p>Two administration officials said that Gonzales, a longtime Bush friend who served with him in Texas, was the likely successor to Ashcroft and that the president could act as early as Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/002986.html\">explained earlier<\/a> some of the reasons Gonzales will be a contentious nominee. Not quite Ashcroft-contentious, but controversial nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>The White House strategy, meanwhile, is pretty obvious &#8212; Gonzales would be the first Hispanic attorney general. For Dems to oppose his nomination, therefore, would be an invitation to get attacked as anti-Hispanic.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House didn&#8217;t even wait 24 hours before leaking word about John Ashcroft&#8217;s replacement. President Bush is moving swiftly toward naming a successor to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has emerged as the leading candidate. Two administration officials said that Gonzales, a longtime Bush friend who served with him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}