The World Around You

I would have to agree with the Register that this is the quote of the week:

“Where are we going? And why am I in a handbasket?” — From a Wednesday e-mail exchange of several Alabama Democratic Party activists.

i don’t think this is serious speculation, but the rumor is out there and published in the Mobile Register this morning that Bill Pryor is under consideration for the top post at the Justice Department.

Publications ranging from The National Journal, a respected political weekly in Washington, D.C., to The Guardian newspaper in London have described Pryor as a candidate to replace U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft , whom some expect to leave after almost four years in the job.

Pryor, now serving temporarily as a judge on the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, declined to comment Friday. Last year, Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked his nomination to a lifetime appeals court slot, arguing that he is too ideological to make an even-handed judge.

I can’t say whether he would be an improvement, as he holds many of the same positions as the current Attorney General.