Letters to the Editor
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Gonzales Resigns to Spend More Time Not Recalling his Family.
Gonzales Resigns to Spend More Time Not Recalling his Family.
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Resignation
That was a good resignation. Only two more to go.
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Swing hard in case you hit it ... or missing the point entirely ...
Elephantman - classic conservative hack job of a commentary ... just make stuff up and with enough bluster ... voila! It is truth! What pure crap.
As has been pointed out more than once now, you missed the point entirely. Were you too busy beating plowshares into swords when your fellow neocons threw the one about WMD's and Hussein and Bin Laden being pen pals past you with little to no actual evidence? Good grief, pay attention and actually read something and take the time to understand it before you run off at the mouth.
We are dealing with complex people and complex issues. There hasn't been a human being yet with all the answers and insights on others' behavior so we draw conclusions based on all the available evidence. (There's that word again ... evidence.) Mr. Blumenthal doesn't deal in absolutes. He never actually said Gonzales wouldn't resign, he simply said it wasn't in his best interests to resign. More importantly Mr.Blumenthal pointed out that it wasn't in The Decider's best interests to have Fredo resign. Complex people, complex issues.
Clearly the landscape changed for Fredo with Rove's resignation and to not think TurdBlossom had unprecedented influence over Fredo is completely naive if not overtly stupid. Were it not for the BushCo crime family and Rove, Mr. Gonzales would never had risen as high and as quickly as he did. He never even held a prosecutorial role in any justice department in the land; this is usually a prerequisite for AG. Of course that assumes normal circumstances and we all know this presidency could not ever be ascribed as normal.
If you had paid any attention at all to his multiple misrespresentations, lies and other gaffs during his appearances before the Senate Judiciary Commte, you would've had no other choice but to believe that the DoJ under Fredo had become highly politicized and subserviant to the White House. There is email after email and testimony under oath to this fact.
Perhaps the Senate Judiciary Commte was closing in on something very damning and Gonzales couldn't take the heat any longer. Added to his problems, his political benefactor & mentor is skipping town, so why stick around and take the fall or worse wind up in prison? He did what any animal interested in self-preservation does ... he bailed out. Plain as the nose on your face. If you don't believe any of that, ask yourself what YOU would do if you were in his shoes. Well?
What I am more worried about than splitting hairs about why Gonzales resigned is what happens next. Clearly there are a lot of skeletons buried and the BushCo crime family wants to make sure they stay in the ground and they'll do ANYTHING to make sure that happens. Worse, this leaves a delusional and self-destructive president even more isolated and subject to the machinations of Evil-Dick (to borrow a moniker from "BigBrother8" ). I think this makes Bush and Cheney more dangerous than ever!
Fellow Americans ... keep your heads-up and your eyes peeled ... this is gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. We really could be on the precipice.
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Bush's Legacy
Blumenthal, as usual, has provided keen political insight while leaving the title as a rhetorical question. Perhaps the reason for that missing answer provides insight into the Bush administration.
Rove, after recently making himself uncharacteristically available to reporters, answered a question about his decision to entertain those interviews by revealing simply that he had been ordered to do so. So the question follows: who in the administration can order Rove to meet with reporters, and can then ask for Rove's and Gonzales' resignations. In addition, who in the administration will "change horses" in an almost "knee jerk" fashion? I can think of only one person.
Clearly it is Bush that has uncharacteristically taken charge of his own administration, apparently seizing power from Rove and distancing himself from the sinking Gonzales ship. But ... why? (As Mr. Blumenthal has offered.) If it is in fact Mr. Bush that is calling the shots then the layers of the onion can't be terribly thick (no insult intended). I believe that the answer might have something to do with his recent meeting with former President Bush, a revelation that Iraq is a quagmire not only for the country but his legacy, and that his NeoCon teammates are no longer effective with a Democratic congress, and most of all there is the new Bush Library that is taking precedence at this point in his term. A legacy is a powerful motivator for a President.
I think an important question remains: was there a deal made with the Democrats to back off the investigations in exchange for the resignations?
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Gonzales
This may be the first fully documented case of the sinking ship abandoning the rats.
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I don't think Blumenthal has contradicted himself.
Just because it was not in Bush's best interest to have Gonzales resign-- either earlier this month or now-- does not meant that it was not finally in Gonzales's best interest to resign anyway.
At some point their individual best interests may have diverged... my money is on some combination of the investigation into the USAttorneys scandal and the Siegelman case, as the reason(s) behind both Rove's and Gonzales's resignations.
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Any of you think that I am the slightest bit distressed over the Gonzalez resignation? Hah!
Who cares? As I wrote elsewhere, I am every bit as "sorry" now as I was when they pulled the plug on the Harriet Miers SCOTUS nomination. It's the same thing. We can find someone to do a much better job. And that includes doing a better job of defending administration policy. I fault the President only in supporting, for too long, fellow Texans (Miers and Gonzalez in particular) for whom he felt a great deal of understandable loyalty. I look for the President to replace Mr. Gonzalez with a choice that is as much of a professional and political improvement as Samuel Alito was over Ms. Miers.
I can only hope that Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Pat Leahy, Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden all take up temporary residence in Texas to personally oversee the investigations of Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzalez. Anything to keep them away from the levers of power in Washington and any serious governmental decisionmaking.