How Does Gonzales Hang On, Especially After This?

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Investigated by his own underlings? Can anyone in this administration do anything competent? And yes, that was rhetorical. I know the answer as well as you. Most ethical and honest administration ever my ass.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400809.html?hpid=topnews
 
"Because I'm the decider and I've decided to keep him on."

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The Gonzalez era will not end well.

And I didn't think anyone could do a worse job as attorney general than Ashcroft..
At least he could sing, sortof.
 
And as we've also learned, even he had limits when it came to civil liberties and the like. Gonzales is a total puppet and a hack. Easily the worst AG ever, especially considering the circumstances he's served so poorly in.
 
I was going to post this as its own thread, but right here is just as well given the millionth tale of dip****ery eminating from the White House ...

If the United States was stock, would you buy it right now? I'd say no.
 
At this point, do you think Bush is just keeping him on as a buffer to take some of the heat?

I can't think of another reason...
 
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If the United States was stock, would you buy it right now? I'd say no.

Not with China holding hundreds of billions in bonds over our heads.
 
He's too stubborn to dismiss Gonzalez.
Look at how long he stuck with Rummy. You could argue that he did a **** poor job as the defense secretary, too. Plus, we're talking about the same president who originally appointed Harriet Miers to become the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
To me it seems Bush is loyal to those who support his views no matter how incompetent they might be.
 
That's just it, though.

He finally had to axe Rummy. He had to pull the Miers nomination back.

Gonzales twists in the wind.
 
Zeke12 said:
At this point, do you think Bush is just keeping him on as a buffer to take some of the heat?

I can't think of another reason...

I think the main thing is a reluctance to go through another confirmation process right now. That seems to me to be the explanation that fits the situation.
 
The pressure isn't there.
The Democrats tried the No-Confidence vote but couldn't get any republican support. I think even Lieberman voted against it.
Bush let Rumsfeld go after the midterm elections and there was no way Miers would've gotten through congress.
It seems the Democrats tried to force his hand but at this point he doesn't have the gun to his head.
 
I can't believe how low our country's standards have fallen. If Gonzo was a journalist he would have been fired, if he was a police officer he wouldn't be allowed to testify in court and he couldn't pass a background check to be a dealer in Laughlin, Nev. Bring on the Scooter pardon. Let's get this over with.
 
Lieberman is utterly mislabeled. The chief errand boy for Big Pharma and Big Ins, you were expecting anything else?
 
Well he IS an independent and WAS a democrat that ran as Al Gore's VP in 2000.
But yeah, he leans conservative. Just not all the time.
 
Mr Writer,

The equivalent would have been Jim Jeffords not voting the straight GOP line ... JL's wandering between the aisles. His vote on Gonzo, unremarkable. That so many GOP guys did, including profile types in Specter and Hagel, remarkable. Exactly the opposite of what you suggest.

YHS, etc
 
Bubbler said:
I was going to post this as its own thread, but right here is just as well given the millionth tale of dip****ery eminating from the White House ...

If the United States was stock, would you buy it right now? I'd say no.

Bubs,
Buy low, sell high, my friend! ;)

Or are you expecting things to get worse before they get better?
 
I'm telling you, 50 years from now, we'll look back and ask: How the hell did we let these people get away with so much ****?

The entire eight years of W is an embarrassment. Not to them. To us. Because we let this **** happen. Some played a more active role in it than others, but still, a whole lot of us endorsed what was happening by simply not caring enough to be outraged.

We failed ourselves. This system of government is controlled by us. And we've stopped caring. When they can't fit everything into a 30-second "update" or scroll the important **** across the bottom of our screen so we don't have to stop watching the show that's "really important," we don't give a ****. If it's the least bit complex, a large portion of this country doesn't even try to get it. Look at Iraq. We've got people on this site making 12-graf posts about the war and they've got absolutely no clue why those people are fighting or even who's fighting.

We've allowed these dip****s in the White House and in Congress to turn our system of government into a con game. You could fit the names of the people in either place who have legitimate morals and won't vote with their bank accounts onto a post-it note. The rest of them are running an endless campaign. They'll sell out any vote to the highest bidder, no matter how serious or how stupid. ****, just look at the ban on assault weapons. The majority of this country and 75 percent of Congress believe that those weapons should be banned. But what happened?

It's our fault. Oh, sure, those crooked ****s share some blame. But it's really on us. I mean, if I went to the mall today, parked my car, left my doors standing open, my wallet, iPod and a roll of cash lying on the seat and went inside for a couple of hours, who's fault would it be when I back out and found those things gone?
 

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