Mission accomplished?...

Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday. You would think that it would be a moment of celebration for Americans everywhere that this crazy nutcase Jesus-freak won't be rounding up your Grandmother anymore for questioning. But Ashcroft was never all that effective at getting his terribly xenophobic (not to mention misogynistic) agenda accomplished. Partly becasue he was a lightning rod for liberal ire and everyone was watching, partly becasue he's incompetent. Now they might actually get someone in this position who is effective at ignoring the Constiitution and stripping all non-evengelical people of their civil liberties.

According to the AP wire story, here's why Ashcroft decided to leave:

'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,' Ashcroft wrote in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush.

Have these guys learned nothing from the predsident's dress-up play-date with the Air Force? Talk about emboldening the enemy!

One week ago Cheney was telling people that we were all going to die in a brilliant nuclear explosion and now there is no crime or terrorism or nightmares or unhapiness anywhere in America. What dfference an election makes!