Letters to the Editor
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Glenn's link
doesn't work. Go to cspan.org, the link is front and center.
Golly this mans memory is bad. I have noticed lately that a very poor memory is required to testify before the Senate/Congress. Is there any chance they will Impeach this clown?!?
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Impeach Gonzales?
What if Gonzales resigns, then is reappointed during a recess--that's legal, right? As long as it was Decided?
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Schumer's Going to Make Gonzalez Cry!!
Go Chuck!!
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Bug, meet boot heel.
AG, meet Senate.
I bet that guy's thinking longingly of being locked up in one of the CIA's "black sites" right now.
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Alberto seems to be very unaware...
... of things as they happen in real time.
It's only later, or in retrospect that he becomes aware or understands things that have occurred under his watch.
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You know how you get that feeling
when you're watching, listening to, or reading someone who's really, really smart, and you think to yourself, "Wow, this guy's really, really smart." I don't get that feeling listening to and watching Alberto Gonzales.
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"with all due respect"
Yes, he's making that phrase do a lot of heavy lifting today.
Is anyone else frustrated by C-SPAN cutting to House votes? Like, I'm really not interested in HR1905 right now. It's like I'm watching March Madness basketball and they're cutting away from my favorite team to show me footage of a game I could care less about.
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I Did Not Do It!
Shorter Gonzales: "I don't recall and anyway, it's all Kyle Sampson's fault."
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To paraphrase the Deciderator
"Heckuva job, Gonzo!"
No kings,
Robert
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Coverage
How is it that decisions are made at CSPAN regarding live coverage on their various channels? Clearly, the Gonzales testimony is the most important matter in Washington today, yet we are relegated to watching in streaming video rather than through cable outlets. In a similar vein, does anybody know if CNN was planning on providing live coverage prior to the Virgina Tech shootings?
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Yes, Alberto is not very bright
Lindsey, while pretending to be stern (sort of like Ian McKellan in "Gods and Monsters" when he told the story about himself "fighting" with a fellow old queen, and referring to it as "hitting each other with lilies" -- I paraphrase and digress at the same time) was actually feeding Abu the answers, and he was too stupid to recognize it. Did you get his (Lindsey's) offering up that it was all about "personalities" that did not get along with the WH?? And Abu totally rejected it!?! The WH coordination is off ... that clearly is the strategy they should go after. The average American would totally understand it since since it matches their own work experience. Abu finally got it in the end, when Lindsey served up the final answer about "needing to restore credibility" ... he agreed to like a totally beaten man. I predict he'll come up out of lunch (if in fact, he does. I wouldn't be surprised if something calls him away.) renewed for a moment, but will quickly go down again. We are seeing the fall of the AG. Hmmmm ... who will be next???
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CNN3 in Washington DC
Jim-
I thought like you that CNN wasn't running it, but discovered that CNN took it off main CNN in the Washington DC market at 10 a.m. and switched it to CNN3. It may be buried somewhere in your cable lineup like it is ours, but it is running on CNN3.
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OOPS, make that CPSAN3 (not CNN)
Sorry! I must be drunk with power...
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Easier to get a link at MSNBC.com
I couldn't get to CSPAN 3 either, but you can watch it live from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ once they reconvene. I had no trouble with that connection. (Except that you've got to use Internet Explorer.) They've taken the link down now, but I imagine they'll put it back up.
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A heady topic
With all the burning controversy over the cost of John Edwards' haircuts, why has no one calculated what surely must be the extraordinary expense of flying Gonzales to North Korea to visit Kim Jong Il's stylist?
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CNN.com / pipeline
is another source for internet video of the hearing, but it's not free.
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I just heard a good one...
"Gonzales and the Bush Whitehouse in charge of DOJ isn’t like the fox guarding the henhouse, it’s more like the termites in charge of the treehouse."
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55
According to comment at FDL, AG said "I don't remember" or equivalent 55 times this morning.
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In summary
To sum up Als testimony:
"To my knowledge, I never made a decision I remembered. I am confident though they were all very good decisions."
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The "Otter" Defense
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/4/19/95746/8206
Gonzo Speaks
By Big Tent Democrat
Hilarious Otter moment: Gonzo won't sit there and listen to you attack the integrity of the wonderful career folks at the Justice Department. Cue the Star Spangled Banner.Otter: Point of parliamentary procedure!
Hoover: Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
Otter: Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What's the difference?
[Addressing the room]
Otter: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.
[winks at Dean Wormer]
Otter: But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America.
Otter: Gentlemen!
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Perjury Count
While it's relatively easy to keep an "I don't remember" count, the more relevant count is the number of times Gonzales committed perjury.
As TPM has noted, Gonzales has already lied about things that are common knowledge:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013723.php
Sen. Schumer (D-NY) catches Mr. Gonzales in one of several lies. Gonzales says Carol Lam was well aware of the DOJ's concerns about her immigration policy. Lam says that's false. Kyle Sampson says that's false. The documents say that's false.
First he claims the 'documents' show she was told. Not true. He gives up on that. Now he's saying that members of Congress told her, which is of course a non-sequitur since the question is whether the DOJ told her that they were concerned.
This is a telling moment for Gonzales since not only is he lying but he doesn't even seem to be even marginally prepped with what's in the public record.
Late Update: Now Sen. Schumer is confronting Gonzales with his lies to Sen. Pryor (D-AR).
Who knows how many lies he's told in toto?
But maybe, under BushCo's New Rules, it's not perjury if it's obviously a lie the moment it leaves your lips.