Opinion: In today’s pages: The un-Gonzales, giving yacht owners a break
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The editorial board says the next U.S. Attorney General should be the un-Gonzales:
The next attorney general shouldn’t be chosen because of an inspirational life story or because he is a ‘close friend’ of the president (Bush’s description). The Senate shouldn’t accept anything less than a distinguished lawyer who can be trusted to insulate criminal prosecution from even the appearance of partisan meddling. But Senate Democrats should be careful not to demand more -- a nominee whose policy views match theirs.
The board criticizes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget cuts that favor yacht owners over the elderly, and wonders why, of all the streets in the city, councilman Richard Alarcon chose to re-zone the stretch where his new wife lives.
Columnist Jonah Goldberg offers a less-than-fond farewell to the attorney general, and California Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez explains why his healthcare plan is the best plan there is. Parent of an L.A. Unified second-grader L.J. Williamson doesn’t think schools should fund healthcare for part-time cafeteria workers at the expense of kids’ already low-budget meals. And Alan M. Collinge asks Congress to stop giving the student loan industry so much leeway in collecting debt and high fees.
Readers offer their thoughts on Moshe Ya’alon’s take on the Middle East. Wiley Cunningham of Los Angeles writes, ‘To suggest that the issue is between ideological Islam and the West is part of a dangerous ideology that will only alienate our allies and turn the entire Muslim world against us.’