Captain’s Quarters On Gonzales
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General PoliticsNeedless to say, Ed ain’t too happy with Alberto…
Have we had enough yet? I understand the argument that if we allow the Democrats to bounce Gonzales, they’ll just aim for more, but Gonzales made himself the target here with what looks like blatant deception. I don’t think we do ourselves any good by defending the serially changing stories coming out of Gonzales’ inept administration at Justice. One cannot support an Attorney General who misleads Congress, allows his staffers to mislead Congress, and deceives the American people, regardless of whether an R or a D follows his name or the majority control of Congress. [...]At this point, the notion that Bush has to retain Gonzales to protect himself and Republicans in general is starting to become absurd. Gonzales inflicted most of this damage on the administration himself, and the longer he remains, the more damage he will do. As Jonah said, it’s hard to find a worse example of self-inflicted damage outside of circus tents.
Gonzales’ dismissal/resignation would not do any more damage to Republicans than has already occurred. If we have to defend incompetents and/or deceivers as critical to the Republican cause, then be prepared for a disastrous 2008. Offering Clintonian word-parsing as a defense does nothing to help the cause of conservatism.
Done and done.
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March 25th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Gonzales is toast. The sooner Bush (or Rove, or Cheney) realizes that, the better off the the Republican Party will be. The elected Party leaders are finally realizing it.
What I would like to know is, where are those 3 weeks of missing emails? The ones beginning roughly December? The only reason I can think of withholding them is because they contain another smoking gun. So why isn’t anyone demanding a subpoena for them?
Curious minds want to know.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Justin,
The arguments the partisan cheerleaders continue to make for their party never cease to amaze me. Here’s one from Trent Lott made this weekend on one of the Sunday talk shows: Appearing with Feinstein on Fox (News), Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) vigorously defended the president. “I see no evidence that anything illegal was done, or improper,â€Â? Lott said. “The president has every right to remove U.S. attorneys.â€Â?
So, let’s imagine that Mr. Lott just lost his re-election bid and there was a controversy about voter fraud brought to Fed. court in his state after the election. Just before indictments are about to be handed down against his opponent, the president fires the US Attorney in charge of the case and the case is dropped. No problem, right, Mr. Lott? The president has every right to remove U.S. attorneys !