Letters to the Editor
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The worst of the worst....
Let's hope that all those who were allowed to sink the American empire through incompetence, stupidity, criminal negligence, war crimes, profiteering and crimes against humanity in the Bush administration will find themselves in jail, or at the very least ostracized from society for the very rest of their days.
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In the words of...
...Nelson Muntz:
Ha ha
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He might be an ideological nutcase
But Gonzales' real shortcoming is that he's an obviously stupid and dull man. He struck me as a man who's on the left side of the Bell Curve and has succeeded in his bizarro-Forrest Gump/Chance Gardiner life through shear accident.
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Lucky Al
If Congressional Democrats merely did the job they were elected to do and held the Bush criminal enterprise accountable for its misdeeds, poor little Fredo would have a job this very moment - cleaning toilets at the local Club Fed.
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something tells me...
he'll land on his feet, round about January 21st, 2009 somewhere in Crawford, TX.
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Electro Robot
That didn't stop Scalia!
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Maybe...
He could go to Berkley and help John Woo Shpardize torture cases...
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Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Guy
I guess there are no second acts according to the Peter Principle.
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Competence aside ...
I always was under the impression that ex high-officials would be hired for their competence, but for A) name recognition, and B) insider contacts.
Just look at Cheney's performance at Halliburton. He made some of the stupidest CEO blunders ever, but in the end the stockholders made out because he ended up sneaking in as VP, and re-inventing the office to serve Halliburton stockholder's needs. I wish I had bought stock in 2001.
Competence is a secondary commodity.
In AG's case, he alienated anyone within the government that might have been an asset to him. And as with Bush himself, he is a name-recognition liability, not an asset. This is at a time when things have gotten so bad that Richard Mellon Scaife is willing to write an op-ed friendly to Hillary!
AG will do OK for a while on speakers fees, mostly as a freak show.
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I can only hope the same
for Condi Rice, David Addingtion and the rest of the Bush Cabal.
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He'll land on his feet, unfortunately
Scum always floats to the top.
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The problem?
I have seen MSM articles that attribute his difficulties to the fact that he was apparently caught lying.
The last time I checked, a reputation for truthfulness wasn't a primary qualification for a career in law. I think Gonzo's problem is that his testimony before Congress made it obvious that he is a pitifully unskilled liar, and nobody wants a lawyer who can't tell lies properly.
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De-Bushification
The United States will have to undergo a cleansing process not unlike the de-Nazification of Germany after WWII.
Anyone associated with this criminal regime will be forever tainted. Perhaps a Truth & Reconciliation Commission -- with public confessions and appeals for forgiveness -- will expedite the cleansing process.
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Kind of like Barry Bonds...
way too much baggage. But then again, Barry could at least play "his" game at a high level. Fredo? Not so much.
Besides, given Gonzalez' issues with honesty any firm would have to hire a second associate to check all of his work.
Doesn't sound too employable to me.
JT
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The Scarlet "NC"
We need a court to rule that these fucking assholes get a scarlet "NC" for neo-con branded on their forehead, so that they would forever be marked as outcast and pariah within our country.
We MUST not take a "let bygones be bygones" with these war criminals.
Feith, Yoo, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld - these are the core criminals. There is a core group of about 30 in total that needs branding.
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you know
But, you know, maybe Krugman makes his own point here: Santorum and Wolfowitz got jobs at conservative "think" tanks. Gonzalez is apparently pursuing law firms. While I don't doubt that many wingnut elite are in charge of these firms, they do have a reputation to consider.
But, nevertheless, we live in a world where even Yoo is now teaching at the University of Berkeley, with blood on his hands and all. So, yea, this IS really weird. He should've gotten a job somewhere by now. Hopefully this is evidence of a sea change amongst the powerful in this country...
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Number of named sources for the original NYT "story": Zero. Number of named sources Steve Benen has for this re-hashing of the original, unsupported story: Zero
What. Anonymous. Bullshit.
According to a source who requested anonymity, Steve Benen couldn't find a job before Salon hired him. Several anonyomus sources familiar with the Benen situation expressed surprise that even at market rates for blogging employment, Benen's job search was delayed.
There. How's that for "reporting"?
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Gonzales
Law is a business and no firms are scrambling to put him on their masthead, which at least for the moment undercuts Krugman's theory of "wingnut welfare." I'm not sure you'll find much disagreement in Republican circles that he was not competent to hold the office and, in particular, most feel he acquitted himself very poorly in the congressional hearings. Republicans of course don't like to speak ill of other Republicans, but that few if any rose to his defense speaks volumes.
So far, no powerful people seem to be twisting arms to find Gonzales a job. It looks to me his only remaining defender is Bush himself, who I suppose might do something to help his old buddy.
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I find this surprising...
...I though American corporations couldn't hire smarmy ass kissers fast enough.
The economy must REALLY be hurting.
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barrister???
Law firms have "letterheads."
Newspapers have "mastheads."
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Go to work as a Public Defender
That would be a great move. If he stuck with it for a few years, he completely would rehabilitate himself, and could command huge speaking fees and book advances.
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Employment discrimination
You can get a new high-paying job if you are an dull-witted, unqualified White Bu$hco crony. You're SOL if you happen to be a incompetent Hispanic Bu$hco hack looking for a new job.
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elephantman
...Washington lawyers and his associates said in recent interviews.
Do you really think these folks would allow the NY Times to identify them by name? Gonzalez is still without a job 8 months after he resigned. That's an eternity, and it speaks for itself.
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According to anonymous sources
Advising the vice president, only oil company executives are qualified to advise on energy matters, or any matters, for that matter.
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Benen has a job.
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"Law firms have "letterheads."
Newspapers have "mastheads.""
And Salon has blockheads
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Perhaps this means...
that despite the past 7 years there is still, to a tiny degree, justice in the world. One can dream.