Ashcroft the Puritan-twit

[SFG75]

Thank god this guy left. The idiot had partially nude statues draped. Evidently, he doesn't understand art from porn. Hopefully this moralizing, book-thumping, Puritan will do us a favor and stay in private life. Bye-bye Johnny!. Go measure skirt lengths outside of movie theaters or something.

With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.

Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall.

The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.

The 12-foot, 6-inch aluminum statues were installed shortly after the building opened in the 1930s.

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[Iced T]

He's not a Puritan. He is a member of the Assemblies of God. I don't know if that is so bad, but he is a little strange. I think he's just stuck in a different era, and some people might find that strange. I wouldn't comment on his politics though.

[CoventryCat86]

It must piss you off to no end that the Republicans have controlled Congress since 1994 and the White House since 2000 with little hope of the Democrats winning the White House back in 2008 and virtually no hope of ever winning back either chamber of Congress anytime soon

How IS that voter registration drive going in Clay County Mr. Democrat County chair?

[SFG75]

He's not a Puritan. He is a member of the Assemblies of God. I don't know if that is so bad, but he is a little strange. I think he's just stuck in a different era, and some people might find that strange. I wouldn't comment on his politics though.

I don't know much about that denomination, other than that they are strong literalists. Yeah, he's stuck in the 1950's. I mean, look at a picture of those statues, it's hardly "erotic" in nature. Nudity in itself isn't bad-though people like Ashcroft would unrealistically maintain that it is. Spending $8,000 in drapes?? Geez, might as well have Nancy Reagan pick them out!.

[cigarsarge]

I admire the man's morals...Spending that kind of money on drapes seem a little silly.

[ggiese]

Hey, Scotty - the $8,000 they spent on those drapes came DIRECTLY out of your tax payments!!! They knew it would piss you off. Just thought you should know....

The government spends money is much more ludicrous ways. I suppose if it suits your argument, it's a pity...