Gonzales

[gunns]

Gonzales has resigned as attorney general
Official announcement expected later today


BREAKING NEWS
by Steven Lee Myers

Updated: 20 minutes ago
WACO, Tex. - Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.

Mr. Gonzales, who has rebuffed calls for his resignation, submitted his to President Bush by telephone on Friday, the official said. His decision was not immediately announced, the official added, until after the president invited him and his wife to lunch at his ranch near here.

Mr. Bush has not yet chosen a replacement but will not leave the position open long, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Attorney General's resignation had not yet been made public.

[TailgateNut]

I heard talk of Chertoff being named as the replacement. Pretty much SOP for BushCo.
Get rid of one FAILURE, and replace him/her with another FAILURE.


BTW: Good Ridance, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!

[Rohirrim]

What do you want to bet that Bush selects Harriet Meiers? I doubt if he could find somebody more incompetent, and after all, that's the hallmark of the Bush regime: The most incompetent gets the job. Ha!

[gunns]

What do you want to bet that Bush selects Harriet Meiers? I doubt if he could find somebody more incompetent, and after all, that's the hallmark of the Bush regime: The most incompetent gets the job. Ha!

Does Browny have a job?

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Does Browny have a job?

Brownie has moved on to another plum job, but I'm sure he can recommend some of his contacts in the Arabian horse training business.

:D

[Bronco Bob]

I told you Gonzales would get the boot. Let's see how the Bush water carriers spin this.

[TheDave]

First Rove now gonzales... I'm not sure whats going on here, but someone is doing a good job of scarring people.

[RkyMtnThunder]

First Rove now gonzales... I'm not sure whats going on here, but someone is doing a good job of scarring people.



I think its called jumping ship


Heck, even the guys on the inside know this administration is going down in flames.

Funny to me to still see even a minority of people who still support this farce of an administration. Their own guys are bailing out left and right and these people still spin and spin to make sense of and justify it all.

Like I had mentioned before, ego..pride...over rides reason and logic with these Bush supporters.

They will spin to the bitter end - and then blame everything on 'libruls' anyway. Mental giants totally wasted off the kool aid they gulped down

[Rohirrim]

Bush's take on this is that a capable, qualified and dedicated public servant was not allowed to do a very important job solely because of partisan political attacks that had nothing to do with reality.

Is he trying to say that Gonzales was Swift boated? Ha!

[Orange_Beard]

The rats are jumping off the ship.

[TheDave]

This has been a sinking ship for a long time now... I think something is going on internally that is forcing this.

JMO, but Gonzales leaving had to be part of a deal.

Something to the extent of... step down and these Congressional Q&A's end.

[alkemical]

What do you want to bet that Bush selects Harriet Meiers? I doubt if he could find somebody more incompetent, and after all, that's the hallmark of the Bush regime: The most incompetent gets the job. Ha!


LOL it's the corporate standard operating procedure. If you have an incompetent employee - promote till they are fired. :)

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Funny to me to still see even a minority of people who still support this farce of an administration. Their own guys are bailing out left and right and these people still spin and spin to make sense of and justify it all.

Like I had mentioned before, ego..pride...over rides reason and logic with these Bush supporters.

They will spin to the bitter end - and then blame everything on 'libruls' anyway. Mental giants totally wasted off the kool aid they gulped down

Hammer, nail, head. :thumbsup:

[elsid13]

Good

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

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[baja]

Now we knows why Carl Rove resigned, he wants to be AG

[Play2win]

Now we knows why Carl Rove resigned, he wants to be AG

Not even funny... :nono:

[Spider]

Rumsfeld = Gone
Rove = Gone
Bremer =Gone
Wolfowitz = Gone
Gonzo = Gone
......yet we are still in the Iraqi war ......... **** you very much guys

[Orange_Beard]

Rumsfeld = Gone
Rove = Gone
Bremer =Gone
Wolfowitz = Gone
Gonzo = Gone
......yet we are still in the Iraqi war ......... **** you very much guys

How would you like to be the guy who has to clean up after these guys?

[Traveler]

The rats are jumping off the ship.

But the bigger question is why? And why now?

[Spider]

How would you like to be the guy who has to clean up after these guys?

no thanks .......

[baja]

First Rove now gonzales... I'm not sure whats going on here, but someone is doing a good job of scarring people.

Or the shiit is about to hit the fan and they want to be long gone.

Something big is coming down the pike, hide and watch!

[baja]

But the bigger question is why? And why now?

Yep and Yep.

Possible reasons;

1. To avoid prosecution.

2. They made a deal to avoid disgrace.

3. They wanted to salvage their careers.

4. They know Bush is crazy.

5. They know there is a big false flag event coming and they want to be no where in sight.

[Spider]

Reporter : Mr Gonzales why are you stepping down ?
Gonzales: I have no recollection of that
Reporter: was it too much heat ?
Gonzales: I have no recollection of that
Reporter : Democrats dragging your good name through the mud ?
Gonzales : I have no recollection of that

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

:D

Can't wait to hear the spin mtnman and the rest of the OM right-wing brain trust put on this.

I'm sure W*GS will find some way to make it about Ted Kennedy.

[Bronco Bob]

:D

Can't wait to hear the spin mtnman and the rest of the OM right-wing brain trust put on this.

I'm sure W*GS will find some way to make it about Ted Kennedy.

They'll just take their cue from Dubya and blame the vast left wing media conspiracy.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

They'll just take their cue from Dubya and blame the vast left wing media conspiracy.

:yep:

No doubt.

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[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Quotes

"CNN is reporting that Bush will likely nominate Chertoff to replace Gonzales and Clay Johnson to replace Chertoff at DHS. Who's Clay Johnson? Johnson is a prep club pal of Bush's who served as his chief of staff back in Texas. The NYTimes says Johnson is so devoted to Bush that he keeps a George W. Bush doll on his desk. Johnson says he finds it "incredible" that people could think Bush has lied about anything. His homeland security experience? As far as we can tell, he has exactly none."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room

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[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Gonzo's Gone. Now Let's Go After Cheney

by Dave Lindorff

Let's be clear. Alberto Gonzales is resigning as attorney general not because he's become an embarrassment to the Bush administration--which has repeatedly shown itself to be beyond embarrassment--but because he is no longer useful. Exposed as a serial liar and an administration hack, he can no longer be relied upon by the Bush administration to carry forward its criminal agenda of subverting the Constitution, the electoral process and the Bill of Rights, because his every step is being watched by the public and the Congress.

But this is no victory unless the Congress follows up by pursuing those who put Gonzales up to his crimes.

The whole reason felons and hacks like Gonzales resign from office is to bury their misdeeds by leaving town.

If Congress then obliges by moving on to other things, the resignation will have succeeded.

Next, it looks like we will have Michael Chertoff as AG. Now on one level that might seem to be an improvement. Gonzales was a both a house servant to Bush through his years as governor and president, doing whatever was necessary to tidy up after Bush's messes, like hiding evidence of his drunk driving record and his dereliction of duty during the Vietnam War, and a kind of mob attorney, developing legal loopholes to protect the president from prosecution (or impeachment) for various crimes as president, like violating the Geneva Conventions or unleashing the nation's spy apparatus against Americans. Chertoff, who is not a part of the Texas Mafia, may not be so ready to cross the line into rank sycophancy and to play the role of co-conspirator, particularly given that it's only for another 16 months.

Then again, Chertoff, in his short stint at what is still referred to as the "Justice" Department, headed up the anti-terrorism unit under Gonzales' predecessor, John Ashcroft, and willingly played along with the sham prosecution of John Walker Lindh, the kid who was captured in Afghanistan and inflated by Ashcroft and Chertoff into "the American Taliban." It was Chertoff who successfully deep-sixed evidence of Lindh's weeks of torture at the hands of American forces, by threatening Lindh with a treason prosecution, while holding out the offer of a deal--"just" 15 years in the can if he agreed to sign a fraudulent statement saying he had "never been mistreated" in US captivity, and to accept a gag order barring him from talking about what had happened to him for the entire length of his sentence--an unprecedented gag order.

That prosecution and silencing of Lindh, which prevented the public from exploring the deliberate campaign of torture that had been developed in Afghanistan, later to "migrate" to Guantanamo and thence to Abu Ghraib and Iraq, was in its way as damaging to the nation as was Chertoff's other signal disaster--his inept and callous mishandling of the catastrophe of the Katrina flooding of New Orleans.

If Chertoff--a demonstrable failure both as an administrator and as a defender of justice--is the best this administration can come up with as a replacement for Gonzales, we should be worried about the future of the nation's "justice" system. (Okay, I concede that the Justice Department has as much to do with justice as the Defense Department has to do with defense or the Education Department has to do with education.)

The one good thing that can be said about the Gonzales resignation is that it eliminates the Democratic leadership's latest gambit for attempting to derail the impeachment movement. As support for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney has grown, both among the public at large and in Congress, where there are now at least 20 co-sponsors for Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Cheney impeachment bill, the Democratic leadership in the House scrambled to get behind a purely inside-the-beltway "campaign" to impeach Gonzales--a move that did succeed in dividing the real, authentic impeachment movement.

The interesting thing is that in backing the impeachment of Gonzales, those leaders and senior House Democrats who have been brushing off the broader impeachment movement gave the lie to two of their main arguments against impeachment--that it would be "too divisive" and that there "isn't time" for impeachment. Clearly if it wasn't too late to impeach Gonzales, and if impeaching Gonzales would not be too divisive, neither is it too late to impeach Cheney and neither would impeaching Cheney be "too divisive."

So let's hail the departure of Gonzo, let's demand a thorough vetting of the demonstrably incompetent and unprincipled Chertoff, and most importantly, let's move forward with the campaign to impeach Cheney, starting with a full-court campaign to get all those who so readily signed on to Washington Rep. Jay Inslee's Gonzales impeachment bill to now sign on to Rep. Kucinich's H.Res. 333, a resolution to impeach the vice president.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/9592

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