Letters to the Editor
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Sympathy for a hachet-man?
How about Immoral Buffoon? Duffus on Steroids?
I wonder if anyone has dared suggest to him that he might go to jail.
Don't worry, Berto, if you can just sweat it out for a couple of years, Farto will have a cushy job waiting for you down at the Old Halliburton Steak and Grill.
I know there's only one of him, but he reminds me of the Three Stooges.
Question: Should anyone with such chronic (some believe terminal) memory problems be allowed to advise the President? Can anyone with such terminal memory problems be trusted to do what the President wants him to do? REgardless of whether it makes sense or not?
If he can't remember an order for two BigMacs, can he be trusted to run a critical function of the government?
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Speaking of a ludicrous statment
"KELLER: Thank you, Mr. Attorney General. You have been through more public scrutiny, and probably some pain, in the last month, more than most people have in a lifetime. As a prominent Cabinet member, U.S. attorney, or U.S. attorney general, you could leave today and make $1 million a year at a law firm pretty easily, but you're staying on and want to stay on. Is it because of your passion for those three things, violent crime, terrorism and getting after child predators?"
I don't think so. Perhaps if Gonzales had left a little earlier he would have had a chance of a highly paid partnership at a right wing Republican law firm. But at this point he would be very lucky to get a well paid job anywhere for several reasons, in fact he would be lucky to get any interviews at all:
1. He brings nothing to the table in terms of business; he has no clients and it is hard to see how he would now get any.
2. He is completely hopeless for lobbying -- to Democrats at least he is toxic, having him shill on the Hill for you would be counterproductive, while his negatives with Republicans are privately huge.
3. His abilities as a lawyer facially suck, so that is not something you can sell.
4. His management ability is visibly nil, so a big General Counsel slot is a non-starter.
5. He would be hard for even the most conservative think tank to hire now, and they would not pay even remotely close to $1 million
Moreover, he is just too, too toxic. The truth is, I could see how even a dolt like Gonzales could have made some money in private practice before his Bush admin career, but now, he would be luck to be paid a thin dim by a firm, and I cannot think of one that would want his name on their letterhead.
Like a lot of Bushies, he is no longer "ministrable," someone who can credibly be hired for any serious role. And that is why he is hanging on for dear life, as is Wolfowitz (apparently Feith is in the same situation.) And that is why GWB's staff are beginning to support him -- they see a situation where they too have little future in DC, NYC or elsewhere.
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Of course he won't resign
Why should he? He has President WooWoo by the short hairs. He could actually ask for a raise.
He typifies the problem the US has when it elects someone of low intellectual powers and a driving urge to be below average. That is, almost any numbnuts - and mark me, Pedro here is truly a blown out bulb on anyone's x-mas tree - can get the upper hand and push George the Lesser in the direction he wants. Everyone has it in his administration and Pedro here has it in spades as he knows full well the thought process or lack thereof that has forged this administration's failed policies.
Besides, WHAT LAW SCHOOL would hire this looser? What law firm? What lobbiest group?
Pedro will hang on to death's door to the only job that he can get.
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Gonzales stood out on the road for years
His sign read "Will do anything, say anything, for money and power."
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Gonzo's former employer
Before he became Bush's consigliere, he was an attorney for Enron. Makes perfect sense now.
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He is holding on because....
...Patrick Leahy will not confirm another AG until Rove agrees to testify. I heard this and wondered if it is true. So I called Leahy's office and asked them. They said yes.