Debbie Schlussel: OUTRAGE: Bush Renominates Terror Sympathizer, Porn Addict to Federal Bench
In my view, Attorney General Gonzalez didn't fire enough of his U.S. Attorneys. Number one on that list should have been the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno."
Last year, I told you all about him, when President Bush made the boneheaded move to nominate Murphy a/k/a Abu Porno to the U.S. Court of Appeals (for the Sixth Circuit), the second highest court in the nation.
Murphy is a well-known sympathizer with Islamic terrorist groups, saying he thinks Hezbollah is just a humanitarian organization, despite the fact that the group murdered hundreds of Americans. Attorneys who worked with him at the U.S. Attorney's office also said he is a porn addict, who wasted the day away showing them online porn, while on the U.S. taxpayer payroll. And he's just plain in competent, turning down important cases, and losing so many other ones, including the embarrassing Barnwell decision.
Murphy made racist statements against Black Republicans and a Black Bush Administration official in the presence of several parties. And he praised an anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Though he is the U.S. Department of Justice's chief official in the heart of Islamic America, he has the WORST prosecution rate of terrorism cases of any U.S. Attorney in the nation. Top that off with the fact that he hung out with and praised officials of charities that funded Al-Qaeda and HAMAS; and he allowed Hezbollah financiers to flee the country.
Given these things and protests by many Republicans, we thought the Murphy nomination was dead in the water after the Senate did not vote on it and it expired. But don't accuse President of never making the same mistake twice. After all, he's the one who couldn't get the "fool me once, fool me twice" saying right.
Bush has, indeed, been fooled twice--he renominated Stephen Murphy a/k/a "Abu Porno" to the Federal Court of Appeals bench, yesterday. President Bush made a big political mistake renominating Murphy. It will come back to haunt him. Too bad Bush didn't heed the famous words of "The Who": "Don't get fooled again."
Read all about Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno."
Posted by Debbie on March 20, 2007 03:40 PM to Debbie Schlussel