Senator Kit Bond is finally getting his chance to defend his former Missouri colleague. The Senate is debating John Ashcroft’s nomination for attorney general, following yesterday’s vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve Ashcroft. Bond says Ashcroft is a good and decent man who has been the target of a slime campaign from what he calls liberal extremists.He is not offering a prediction on the vote of Senator Carnahan, whose late husband battled Ashcroft for his senate seat last fall.
