Gonzales is ResigningFollow

Huh. At this point, I had assumed he's ride it out. Well, I certainly can't complain.

Two words: Bobby Kennedy.

In terms of cronyism, Bush ain't got nothing on those Mass feudal lords. RFK's saving grace was the same as his brother's-- he got shot and killed before nepotism/scandal/corruption could/would occur and be exposed.

Alberto's main failure? Not being prepared for the intensity of the job and using the office as an extention of the Bush administration. Had he fired those attorneys and said they serve at the will of the president instead of claiming incompetance, there'd not have been a whole lot anybody could have done about it. As it is, it shows just how inadequate Gonzalez was for the position.

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True dat, gbaji. By all accounts Gonzalez did just fine as the Texas AG. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there was a bit of the Peter Principle at work here.

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The LIBERAL CONSPIRACY AMIRITE OR WUT?!?!

Anyway, good riddance.

Not that it matters anymore, since the twilight of this adminstration is like watching a train crash in slow-mo.

Not pretty, but entertaining.

Of course never mind the entire point of the matter.. that being the fact the the HEAD LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN THE COUNTRY is supposed to be NON-biased and NON-partisan. Two things which you just admitted that he was guilty of.. then you say there should be no problems with it...

Why don't we just let our Presidents just choose all of the members in all the branches of government? like Nobility and ****

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I would have thought that this would have the potential to affect anyone.




Wich in the land of the free and the home of democratic ideals, really ought to bother everyone too.

Gonzalas just tucked tail and ran. I don't see where anyone on the left's motivation needs to be to "feel better" about this.

I was talking about the tactic used by the Dems and their operatives to create the conditions that put him in that position in the first place.


They primed the pump for months prior to the "official investigation" by leaking to the press the idea that the Bush administration fired federal prosecutors for partisan reasons. Of course, there's absolutely nothing wrong or illegal to fire prosecutors for partisan reasons, but that didn't stop the media from reporting it as though there was.

After the public discussion had reached a sufficient peak, the Dems then demanded an investigation and began by questioning Gonzales as to why he'd fired those guys. Of course, after weeks of stories in the media demonizing the firing of federal prosecutors for partisan reasons, he was hesitant to say "we fired them because they weren't doing what the president wanted them to do". I think it's pretty obvious why. It would have tied directly into the rhetoric going on in the public discussion (which need not have anything to do about legality) and created a frenzy of "See! They really did fire them for partisan reasons!!!" (again missing the point that there's nothing wrong with this).


So he hemmed and hawed and was generally evasive. Which is exactly what the Dems were hoping for, and allowed them to continue to push the issue and make it seem like there was some kind of coverup.


It's the tactic I'm talking about. It's ugly. It's bad politics. Anyone could do it, but only the Dems seem so consistently willing to stoop that low. It's ridiculously easy to know that a particular political action was taken by your opponent, convince the media that this is "bad" and let them write alarmist stories about it, and then finally "investigate" the activity itself, hoping to catch the other side lying about what you already knew they did before you started the process. It takes no particular talent to do this, but is remarkably effective, especially given the general gullibility of the public at large.

Well, nothing illegal anyway. I think most people would disagree with there being nothing wrong with it. In fact, most people did disagree with it so I'm right, which is always nice Your ability is blindly support anyone the president does and blame it all on the liberals is charming.Ah, now it's the Democrats' fault, the media's fault and the American people's fault that Gonzales acted as poorly as he did. It's amazing how far the party of personal responsibility will go to blame everyone in America but themselves when their guys are a fuck-up*. I mean, who's left to blame now? Cats? Penguins? iPods?


*Excepting, of course, when there's sex involved...

Ahhh, so the democrats are using their evil mind control rays to make the republicans do corrupt things? Disregarding the constitution of the US and wiretapping their own citizens? All democrat mind control, right? Disregarding geneva convention and torturing prisoners, it was the democrats!


Gonzales was about a lot more than firing prosocutors, and, funny enough, those things that 'they leaked' really did happen. THere was ample evidence that they were fired for not going after democrats enough, or going after republicans too hard. Shame on people for actually putting light on it though, right?

Its never the fault of the republicans, it's the fault of the people who reported it! Puhlease.