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Halleluya! Gonzales Resigns
Posted by michaelvdg in Uncategorized.
Aug 27th, 2007 | 14 responses
Aug 27th, 2007 | 14 responses
Halleluya!
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned.
It now seems to me that he did not want to resign at a moment that it could be seen as ‘surrendering to the Democrats.’ Instead of resigning once it became clear that he has been a more than horrible Attorney General (to put it mildly), Gonzales seems to have decided to wait a couple of months and then to submit and announce his resignation.
Gonzales submitted his resignation Friday already (via telephone). However, Bush did not want to announce it because he first wanted to have lunch with Alberto and his wife.
Read more at The Gazette (fixed the link).
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14 Responses to “Halleluya! Gonzales Resigns”
It speaks volumes when all of your key appointees resign.
Yep.
Although: Chertie could be Gonzales’ successor. That will send the message that Bush does not plan to change any of his important policies.
Replacing one failure with another seems to be the Bush doctrine. Maybe all these guys are really Bush’s enemies and he’s “keeping is enemies” closer…hmmm, the mind reels. At least he is consistent in his ability to pick the wrong man for the job.
Good news, though waaaaayyy overdue.
Does anyone ever get the impression that people are too hesitant to say the word “lie” these days? I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen his testimonies described with the words “apparent memory loss” “can’t recall” “evasive” “uncooperative” etc. Almost no one, even bloggers, is willing to come out and say what we all know; he is lying through his teeth!
If we regular mortals lie to investigators we can get in a lot of trouble, and if we were to do it to congress it’d be even worse, but someohow when the powerful lie we take it in stride, and we don’t expect swift action against them. I know this is the way it’s always beeen, but we should be angrier about it. He doesn’t need to resign, he needs to go on trial!
I guess there was really something to all the buzz from a couple of weeks ago….which I believe came from Novak… stating that there were going to be high level resignations.
It would make sense (and would be the M.O.) for the Bush administration to put Chertoff in the position….as a way to avoid a tough confirmation hearing…. the hearing will be unlikely to spark any fights.
But that raises the question- who will replace Chertoff?
As for now though… i’m as happy as can be….
This is really collateral damage from the Mid-term elections… it just took a long time for this one to materialize. He would have been better off resigning earlier.
Time to break out the champaign!
The two real questions is who will become the next target for the Democrats in Congress and with Gonzales gone, what will Congress do to waste time know instead of holding hearing of actually budgets and legislation?
Is calling criminal activity to account a waste of time?
This purported “do nothing” congress actually did more so far than Newt’s contractual obligators did in 94.
Criminal activity is not defined as “things that piss me off.” If you are claiming criminal activity, please cite the U.S. code that was violated. Congress never seemed to be able to make the case that the President violated any law when he fired people who he was entitled to fire.
However, the smear campaigned worked. I wonder why people think that changes things at the top ever changes anything. Every year, places like DC fire the old schol sperintendent and hire a new school superintendent. Yet, every year the schools perform the same way. Why can’t people understand that most of government works that way.
Look at how unimportant the United Nations became as soon as Bolton was gone.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Hello? They admitted it dude.
This, along with Rove’s resignation, was perfect timing for the WH. They knew that Gonzales symbolizes everything that has gone wrong with the Bush presidency- incompetence, dishonesty and probable illegal activity. Gonzales resignation takes the albatross off the necks of Republicans in their quest to win in ’08, and allows the WH to move forward, without making it look like Bush was caving in to his critics. (can a medal of freedom lag far behind?)
I don’t get this, Gonzales isn’t the goal. The goal is to find out what the president was up to. Until we can start shining lights into the shady corners of this administration I’m not opening any champagne. It seems anytime we get close to getting somewhere the target of investigation resigns and we go back to the drawing board instead of getting to the real issue at hand.
But at least Gonzales was held accountable. Like similar scandals- executive privilege will continue to be used to shield Bush from the controversy. There is no time for long-drawn out court battles(to force compliance with congressional subpoenas), and the Democrats don’t have enough Republican support for impeachment. This is probably the best they could hope for, frustrating as it is.
Well then it is what the conservatives claimed, a witch hunt. Nothing has changed, not a thing, yet democrats are rejoicing as if something important got done.