Letters to the Editor
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Good Lord
I wrote some pretty cringe-worthy poetry as an undergrad. If I ever decline to testify in front of Congress, can I expect to see it resurrected here?
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If she wanted to leave the world a better place than how she found it ...
... why did she work for the Bush administration?
Talk about cognitive dissonance!
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Smile!
A big smile always helps you get through Congressional testimony. A happy disposition shows members of Congress that you want to inject their drab halls with some sunshine and flowers.
When I'm feeling sad, I think about puppies and rainbows!
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Hippie
She sounds like a pinko commie hippie to me. Love people? Smile? Be pleasant?
How the hell did she get a job with The Bush Administration?
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A light day for quotes, eh?
Sure, it's mockable, but a lot of things are mockable. The "send me email" thing is a trifle ironic juxtaposed with her current adventure in the exercise of constitutional rights. (Which, given her boss's record on constitutional rights, is pretty ironic in itself.) But that's not much to hang your hat on.
As for the overall "I'd like to make the world a better place" tone -- well, wouldn't we all? As big a mess as they've made, I'm sure even Rove, Bush and Cheney have all wanted the world to be better for their having been in power. It may not have been job #1 at all times, but almost no one just wants to twirl their handlebar mustache and laugh maniacally while they screw the world over.
No, not even Dick Cheney. I don't think.
I'm glad she wanted to make the world a better place. I seriously doubt that she has, on balance, but I don't doubt that she tried. Of all the things to give her a hard time for, I'd rather it not be that.
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Oh, I've been forwarding this site to my friends
I love the "Ascroft" quote. And that USA Today is left. And that her father earned a "metal" of valor over here.
I now see how the US Attorney thing got so bungled.
Something tells me that she was more of a smiling non-detail person. . .
What was her job again? Oh yeah. . .senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House.
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Another...
hard hitting story from Salon. Please find out what was written in her yearbook next.
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Alberto Gonzalez as a student
Just for comparison, here is Alberto Gonzales's "senior box" from the 1979 Rice yearbook:
"While at Rice I have had much to be thankful for. My parents have stood behind my all the way and for this I am very grateful. I thank Diane in whose love and understanding were so helpful in getting me through these four years. God has been too good to me and for this I praise him."
http://www.1134.org/blog/2007/03/16/a-portrait-of-the-toady-as-a-young-man/
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Regent?!
Screw the quote. She's no "pinko commie hippie." Regent is Pat Robertson's school, "Christian Leadership to Change the World."
They tout "150 graduates serving in the Bush Administration."
http://www.regent.edu/general/about_us/facts.cfm
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Uh-oh...
Thing are going from Goodling to badling to worseling... Especially if you have to plead the fifth before we even know what may be incriminating you.
...Must be good.
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Neocon Loving
The neocon worldview is everything is permissible for them because they are a special know-it-all breed. Wolfowitz cannot fathom why the rest of you cannot appreciate his special position and being that entitle him to do anything he likes while preaching to and occasionally punishing anyone deemed to have strayed from the prescribed path. In other others, Wolfowitz and his ilk epitomizes the most dangerous mentality known to man. It invariably leads to catastrophe. Wolfowitz is yet to exhaust his capacity to inflict grief. He has not even started, Iraq not withstanding
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Rice?
First Alberto didn't spend four years at Rice. I have all my yearbooks in my den (Rice-1976-1980) and Alberto is in one only. He transferred from the Air Force Academy probably for his senior year. I likely wouldn't have met him unless at a discipline hearing for my continued problems with authority.
What I can see is Rice back then was a very small school and not RWA until after the Baker School of International Mismanagement. I don't remember Gonzales. I doubt he was a Baker man, (probably Richardson or Brown after it went co-ed) and I doubt he ever joined Club 13. If anyone were to scour the writings of seniors in the Rice yearbook they would find two types: the self serving Miss America type pidgeon droppings of those with an eye on their future toadyism (let a smile be your umbrella) and the honest ramblings of those who, were woken up at noon warned they had to say something to get it into the yearbook and had no idea where they were at the moment let alone where they'd be twenty years and just said what they hoped would be the future we sought we'd face. You know, the one with universal healthcare and beer piped in through our city taps.
Ok. It was when I was rebuilding an engine for a 1978 Triumph Spitfire that I learned the philosophy behind what I wrote for my senior yearbook: "There is nothing worth doing if it can't be done with a beer in your hand." is not only not a good philosophy for success, but a good way to lose your right arm.
I still have that arm, but not the beer. Something tells me I would have an easier time explaining that mental lapse of youth alot better than some airhead spouting Smurflike bon mots, only to watch the umbrella collaps and resign an important post when forced to plead the the fifth, just to protect those who believe an underling makes a far better umbrella than a 'smile.'
Understand, this was the 70's and if we are to be accused of anything our worst crime was doing bong hits while thinking once Nixon's cronies went to jail it would be the last we would ever see of such paranoid war mongering cronyism. I went to work on Carter's campaign honestly believing the American people had learned a valuable lesson and a new worl had dawned. But first came Reagan and I cursed the fact I lost interest in drugs. But at least I didn't think Nixon's evil minions would ever rise again.
Well, we are where we are. But don't call Gonzales a Rice man. He is a transplant placed in our fine college by people with more power than whatever got me and my fellow students in that school. Want a good scoop? Find out why he really left the Air Force Academy and who wrote letters getting him into such an exclusive and somewhat racist school.