Letters to the Editor
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Just in time...
Congress is still on summer recess, so Bush can use a recess appointment to stick us with another Bush bootlicker.
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And you thought a functioning government mattered.
It does not. In fact everyone but Bush and Cheney could resign today and it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference.
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Mission Accomplished?
I guess Fredo's taken as much heat at he can, and, by the skewed moral calculus of this maladministration, they decided he should step down.
It's like with Rumsfeld -- they kept him on way past his expiration date to catch as many javelins for Bush/Cheney as possible, and then moved that piece off the board when the time came for it. By already establishing that anybody who has ever served Bush/Cheney is apparently protected by executive privilege in perpetuity, I guess they figure he's covered even after resigning.
Conversely, maybe they figure if they take him away, they can begin to spin a narrative of change and hopeful promise at Justice, while continuing all of the policies that Gonzales enabled.
The only reasons he would have been permitted to resign is 1) if keeping him on somehow would make the maladministration look even worse, 2) if no further deflection of responsibility and/or accountability could be had by keeping him on board, and 3) if letting him resign would somehow derail Congressional efforts at oversight of the Executive Branch.
Bush's running out of cronies; maybe it's time to give some of the Young Republican Guard time to earn some reactionary resume bona fides in the waning days of this maladministration, kind of like how Cheney and Rumsfeld served Nixon in the waning years of that administration.
(Apologies to JFK) A snuffed torch has been passed to a new generation, tempered by a war of opportunity, disciplined by a hard and bitter economy, proud of their cynical religiosity -- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those property rights to which this nation has always been committed, and the executive privileges that have allowed this Grand Old Party to undermine the very democratic values which we are committed today at home and around the world.
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I presume ...
he wants to spend more time with his family?
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What about Craig S. Morford , the current Deputy Attny Gen.?
He's a Bushista too. And a real Tool.
No interim appointment necessary.
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Why now? Could be the SOBs know that Rep. Jay Inslee's...
...IMPEACEMENT INQUIRY RESOLUTION has legs, so Al Fredo resigned before it goes too far.
So, why not resign while Congress is in recess to give Bush the opportunity to make a recess appointment.
Six congressmen who once were prosecutors want to restore independence of the judicial branch. That’s why they, along with other members of Congress, introduced a resolution in the House that could lead to the impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Specifically, the resolution would require the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution would need to win approval by a majority of the House for the panel to start investigating. If after an investigation the Judiciary Committee, by majority vote, determines that grounds for impeachment exist, a resolution impeaching the attorney general and setting forth specific allegations of misconduct, in one or more articles of impeachment, would be reported to the full House.
The author of the impeachment inquiry resolution, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.)
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Really scratching my head over this
I mean here's a guy who sat there with a dumb smug retarded smirk on face saying "I don't remember" over and over. What pressure are we talking about? What scandal. These feebs don't care what anyone thinks does or says and every evening they get together and laugh about how stupidly they acted. I bet Gonzo does a pretty good Pat Leahy impression.
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Good Riddance
Now wait and see who is going to be next AG. Another Bush appointee without Senate approval? Now it is time to go after Gonzales for his false testimony and lies under oath. Let him wear orange!
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What shoe is dropping?
Rove, Gonzales . . .
There is a shoe dropping and they are setting up the cop at the car-wreck line "keep on walking folks, nothing here to see [the guilty are gone"
Must be a big shoe . . . what part of the scandals has not come out -- could it be prosecutions by the US attorneys that did not resign. Siegelman/Canary? What? I cannot see these departures of Rove and Gonzales as unconnected, they are worried that something big is coming. The only thing that strikes me as likely to be the huge in the next few weeks is the Canary subpoena to turn over everything on the Siegelman prosecution, which if one reads Scott Horton's detailed review in www.harpers.org, is the subject of weeks of "dog at my homework" excuses around a very smelly prosecution.
It's important to get a good AG in, but it is also important to make sure that when the shoe is on the floor the Dems shove it painfully up the White House and Congressional Republicans fundament . . .
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"Gonzo shuffle".
So he FINALLY, though BELATEDLY, does the "Gonzo shuffle"?
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/08/breaking-news-us-attorney-general.html#links
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Alberto Gonzales resigns
For once, he's done something right.
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But, but, who is going to protect America's children now????
Just last month Gonzo said he couldn't possibly resign because he was busy "protecting America's children."
Damn!
Now America's children are going to be without any protection!
How could Gonzo lie to America's children?
Say it ain't so, Gonzo! Say you're going to stay on and protect America's children.
Pttht!
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Only somewhat surprised
Any Bushie who wasn't going to stay until the end of Bush's term was told to submit their resignation by Labor Day. Tony Snow even said, "I think that probably…as Josh said the other day, he thinks there are probably a couple coming up in the next month or so."*
Highlights since June alone:
- Dan Bartlett
- Karl Rove
- Tony Snow
- and now, Alberto Gonzales
I suppose everyone has their limits and even a hack like Gonzales couldn't take another year and a half of hearings, evasions and villification.
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*Think Progress has a list of key resignations since last November: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/16/more-resignations-to-come/
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Harry Reid: This ain't over!
"We're going to get to the bottom of this mess and follow it all the way into the White House."