TRex!

TRex!

FITZ!!

squirt!

urban pirate @ 3

squirt!

Heh.

He didn’t read the memos, and his chief of staff resigned….

Trust him? If this man doesn’t have the grace to resign, Congress SHOULD impeach!

Whoa!

It’s about time. This is starting to get interesting.

But he did say (right before he squirted) that he stood by the firings. Of course.

Hey, did someone tell the kids downstairs that there’s a new thread?

There’s going to be one hell of a race to come up with the best snark about this press conference.

But the therapod’s set a pace that is going to be tough to beat.

He’s trying for Michael Brown Part II?

I think that, if I were one of the Democrats theoretically running Congress, I’d have been looking for a locksmith about two minutes into that presser: ‘Hello, Joe’s Lock, we have an emergency and need some doors re-keyed now.’ Then hand Gonzales a resignation letter with only his signature missing.

Crooked Timber (www.crookedtimber.org) gives Mr. Gonzales one Galbraith, based on JW Galbraith’s rule that people who say they’re not resigning generally resign after the fourth time they say so.

Gonzo was not his usual smug, smirking, arrogant self this morning, was he? Instead he looked like a frightened little boy being called out for shitting on mom’s favorite rug…

He has pooped on the Constitution, and that’s a much more serious matter.

This little bastard should resign immediately!

By the way, let’s not forget that the “Tell it like it is” Coulter-Republicans who hate namby-pamby political correctness and who believe that racism no longer exists will be trotting out the tried and true excuse that Gonzales is being attacked because he is Latino in 5…..4…..3….2….1……

-GSD

P.S.

Let’s not forget what David Gergen said about the Bush Whitehouse:

“And the country will turn its eyes to a criminal investigation not only of the Bush administration, first major criminal investigation of an administration that’s been amazingly scandal-free.”

TRex
once again, you nailed it.

I saw the pisser, er presser while I was home for lunch with Mrs BC. Abu looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

Look for him to be seeking to spend some quality time with his family by the end of the month.

BC

Pchang @ 13

Crooked Timber (www.crookedtimber.org) gives Mr. Gonzales one Galbraith, based on JW Galbraith’s rule that people who say they’re not resigning generally resign after the fourth time they say so.

Will his Galbraith last a Friedman?

-GSD

I was having computer issues so didn’t catch the presser. Did he answer any questions from the press?

“eebeda eebeda eebeda…”

This is all a pretty good way to pass the time until the Waxman hearing on Friday.

Wonder if Fitz has left for Chicago yet? I think I am now officially FREAKED OUT OF MY MIND.

It looked to me like Gonzales is twisting slowly in the wind, what with Bush out of the country and all. The White House spin operation is south of the border, and Alberto has to try to handle it all by his lonesomeness.

Not a pretty sight.

I bookmarked Swampland about 3 weeks ago. I think that Klein, Cox, Tumulty, and Carney have really had their eyes opened over there.

If we could exponentially get this phenomenon plugged into the rest of the MSM, we’d be smokin’ !

Hey; my first EPU’d !

AZ Matt @ 19

I was having computer issues so didn’t catch the presser. Did he answer any questions from the press?

Yes.
I did liveblogging on the last thread.
[In the comment section—6 different sections]

# 64 # 70 # 77 # 85 # 98 # 105

Abu Gonzales stood there looking like his usual sweaty, shifty self, a living, breathing instance of the Peter Principle elevated to the level of comic opera.

Great line, T!

That was the worst press conference I’ve ever seen. I really thought Gonzales was gonna break down on national tv. He can’t run the DOJ, and he can’t lie worth a damn, so what’s he doing in the Bush regime?

Ok, screwing up the DOJ is par for the course, but he’s expected to be a good liar.

AZ Matt @ 19

I was having computer issues so didn’t catch the presser. Did he answer any questions from the press?

Sort of.

You know how they are.

It looks like punaise is the first out of the gate with a transcript.

Okay, time to go to work.

Bargain Countertenor @ 17

Look for him to be seeking to spend some quality time with his family by the end of the month.

BC

We can hope!
If not, IMPEACH HIM!!

AZ Matt @ 19

I was having computer issues so didn’t catch the presser. Did he answer any questions from the press?

Did the press ask questions? Yes.

Did he move his lips in response? Yes.

Did he answer the questions? No. Not even close.

If you fired them for “underperforming” then why does your appointments Secretary have to resign???? Oh right! He “underperformed” by not spinning the lie more carefully!

The problem wasn’t that these Attorney Generals were “underperforming”…it was because they were not doing the “dog and pony show” expected of them by Gonzo, Harry, Dubya, and Turd-Blossom.

Damn, Trex’d in the daylight! Vamous Alberto!

Sonofabitch!

NYT headline… “MISTAKES WERE MADE” hahaha

damn, wholly unoriginal nixonisms flying…

how long before he goes from dismayed to dismissed?

AZ Matt @ 19

I was having computer issues so didn’t catch the presser. Did he answer any questions from the press?

That depends on what the word answer means, Matt.

If it means what it means in dissertation defense, that is, listening carefully to the question and making a substantive response to the question, then the answer is (mostly) no.

If, on the other hand, answer means to make (mostly) irrelevant noise after someone asks a question, then the answer is (again, mostly) yes.

BC — you didn’t expect anything different, did you?

It’s clear now Gonzales won’t be in his job much longer. It will be good for this country to get rid of someone who serves as a political operative, promotes torture, has no understanding of law or the Constitution and generally does shoddy work (see his death clemency work in Texas).

The other aspect of this that is very, very important, is the blow to Bush himself to lose one of his inner circle. Gonzales has been part of Bush’s insulation since Texas, and with Gonzales removed Bush will be even that much more exposed. Each of these kinds of developments makes it that much harder for “Team Bush” to spend time on their destructive agenda.

And the General is dancing too:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The top U.S. military officer, Gen. Peter Pace, said Tuesday he should have focused more on military policy and less on his own opinion when he told a newspaper homosexual acts are immoral. . .

“In expressing my support for the current policy, I also offered some personal opinions about moral conduct,” Pace said in a statement. “I should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views

Let’s hope Schumer et alii have got them by their very short porcine hairs.

If the administration could have known how upset these prosecutors were going to get…

puppethead @ 36

It’s clear now Gonzales won’t be in his job much longer. It will be good for this country to get rid of someone who serves as a political operative, promotes torture, has no understanding of law or the Constitution and generally does shoddy work (see his death clemency work in Texas).

The other aspect of this that is very, very important, is the blow to Bush himself to lose one of his inner circle. Gonzales has been part of Bush’s insulation since Texas, and with Gonzales removed Bush will be even that much more exposed. Each of these kinds of developments makes it that much harder for “Team Bush” to spend time on their destructive agenda.

yea, and I’m sure we’ll get someone wayyyyy better, right?

Cheney orders Libby to go after Wilsons. Bush orders Abu G to fire attys who don’t drink kool-aid. CREW orders special prosecutor.

Libby and Abu G – two rotten guys just doing rotten things that their rotten superiors told them to do.

Fish rots from the head down. Impeachment is the answer. Time to clean house.

General Pace: Gays are immoral. But we will accept felons and white supremacists into the military. Also, that Abu Ghraib stuff wasn’t really gay.

-GSD

This president has more appointments than my dentist.

He lied under oath to Congress and he was a greased piglet all the times he’s testified before Congress.

(including the time that Spekter refused to put him under oath b/c it was “unwarranted”!)

grrrrr.

He said he works for the American people. bah!

He lies for this administration and subverts and twists the Constitution and our laws and treaties.

Impeach!

He just threw sand into our collective faces.

These latest U.S attorneys revelations show more than a White House determined to enforce loyalty to President Bush and entrench partisan Republican hatchet men throughout the DOJ’s ranks. Simply put, the Bush White House planned to systematically drive down the turnout of Democrats and independents at the ballot box through an unaccountable campaign against “voter fraud.”

For the full story, see:
“THE LINK: Purging Prosecutors – and Voters.”

For more on the White House connection and all the latest news, hearings, legal filings and other essential documents on the Bush DOJ prosecutor firings, see:
“The U.S. Attorney Scandal Documents.”

hackworth @ 41

Cheney orders Libby to go after Wilsons. Bush orders Abu G to fire attys who don’t drink kool-aid. CREW orders special prosecutor.

Libby and Abu G – two rotten guys just doing rotten things that their rotten superiors told them to do.

Fish rots from the head down. Impeachment is the answer. Time to clean house.

I agree. Things are very ripe for Impeachment.

TRex, you won me completely with your comment about Gonzales squirting from the presser.
He surely did not seem his usual smug little self, did he? In fact, his voice seemed a bit quavery and was he sweating? I agree with a commenter on the last post … they are way too nervous about this one for it not to be covering up something even worse than what we see today.
Dead man walking, that’s what I think.

I caught it on FOX, alas. They had the reporters’ mikes turned waaaaay down, so it seemed.

TheOtherWA @ 27

That was the worst press conference I’ve ever seen. I really thought Gonzales was gonna break down on national tv. He can’t run the DOJ, and he can’t lie worth a damn, so what’s he doing in the Bush regime?

Ok, screwing up the DOJ is par for the course, but he’s expected to be a good liar.

He was a competent liar back when the GOP was in charge and he knew he could get away with it. Bet he’s pining for the heady days when Republican committee chairs would refuse a motion to put him under oath! But yeah, given that past performance, I didn’t think he’d turn into such a rotten liar when forced to actually face tough questioning.

oh crap !

per Josh, Kyle Sampson was teed up as Rove’s replacement

Fortunately, there’s a ready replacement: D. Kyle Sampson , chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and formerly in the White House counsel’s office. Maybe not exactly the same as Karl but

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002748.php

egregious @ 25

AZ Matt @ 19

I was having computer issues so didn’t catch the presser. Did he answer any questions from the press?

Yes.
I did liveblogging on the last thread.
[In the comment section—6 different sections]

# 64 # 70 # 77 # 85 # 98 # 105

Jsut went through them thanks!

He didn’t admit to anything except that he wasn’t minding the store.

If this isn’t an impeachment, gift wrapped and served on a silver platter then I don’t know what is. The Dem leaders better jump all over this and rip the heart out of this piece of garbage. How many times does the administation get to spit in their collective faces before they get their asses into gear and do more than just hold more hearings!??!? If they don’t have any self respect for themselves then maybe I’ll just vote for some independent schmuck or not vote at all!! Where the fu** is my pitch, fork and torch anyway???

Perhaps a new name variation…Alsquirto Gonz-outa-here

raven @ 40

yea, and I’m sure we’ll get someone wayyyyy better, right?

paging John Yoo…

Bargain Countertenor @ 35

AZ Matt @ 19

I was having computer issues so didn’t catch the presser. Did he answer any questions from the press?

That depends on what the word answer means, Matt.

If it means what it means in dissertation defense, that is, listening carefully to the question and making a substantive response to the question, then the answer is (mostly) no.

If, on the other hand, answer means to make (mostly) irrelevant noise after someone asks a question, then the answer is (again, mostly) yes.

BC — you didn’t expect anything different, did you?

Kinda hoping… .

tejanarusa @ 29

Bargain Countertenor @ 17

Look for him to be seeking to spend some quality time with his family by the end of the month.

BC

We can hope!
If not, IMPEACH HIM!!

Abu’s gonna resign so that he can avoid spending some quality time with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees over this bit of Bushit.

Frankly, I’d prefer that they work up the chain from Abu into 1600. If we’re going to have to go to the trouble of impeaching someone (and we are), then the someone to impeach is the Dim Son himself.

Will he be convicted? Prob’ly not: the Repugnicans in the Senate will circle their wagons around him and prevent a conviction. But then we hang that albatross around their necks in ‘08.

BC

Phoenix Woman @ 47

I caught it on FOX, alas. They had the reporters’ mikes turned waaaaay down, so it seemed.

Mikes were ok at c-span 1. I got the Q&A, hope somebody else caught the actual minispeech. It was slated to be on c-span 2 but only Joe Lieberman was there :(

angie @ 44

He lied under oath to Congress and he was a greased piglet all the times he’s testified before Congress.

(including the time that Spekter refused to put him under oath b/c it was “unwarranted”!)

grrrrr.

He said he works for the American people. bah!

He lies for this administration and subverts and twists the Constitution and our laws and treaties.

Impeach!

I’d like to see Specktor under oath on this.

Alberto Gonzales: A Willing Accessory at Justice
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales is the 80th attorney general of the United States and if recent events in the law and at the Justice Department are any indication, he is rapidly staking a claim to being among the worst. To test that claim and evaluate the man who is not just nominally called the “nation’s top lawyer,” we must answer three questions. To what extent did Gonzales’ public record before taking office give us clues about what sort of Attorney General he has turned out to be? Has he so far been up to the task as it is ideally defined? And, finally, does he deserve to continue to serve in office?
http://blog.washingtonpost.com…..g_acc.html

Pictures of Bush’s reaction to the press conference have come in. (/snark)

Did anyone ask him if Harry Meirs thought that ALL the US Attorneys were underperforming. She suggested they all be fired, after all.

Wouldn’t that indicate that the DOJ under Gonzo was an utter failure?

Or was there some other reason that Harry wanted this complete an utter purge rather than incompetancy? I suggest that those targetted were not only performing well, but fired for doing jobs in a legitimate, non-political, manner.

raven @ 40

yea, and I’m sure we’ll get someone wayyyyy better, right?

Of course not. Look at the parade of scum being put in charge of Army Medicine. But Gonzales is a special Bush underling. Bush has no doubt about his loyalty. Any replacement won’t be as close to Bush, nor as effectively evil. So even the worst person imaginable (Harriet Miers?) won’t be as bad for this country or as helpful to Bush’s death cult as Gonzales.

TheOtherWA @ 27

That was the worst press conference I’ve ever seen. I really thought Gonzales was gonna break down on national tv. He can’t run the DOJ, and he can’t lie worth a damn, so what’s he doing in the Bush regime?

I think when he got the Ken Lay question he knew this wasn’t going to go quite like he might have hoped. So great to see the press waking up out of it slumber, kind of like that character under the spell in Lord of the Rings. Even the room for the press conference was kind of odd, like a “press conf. in the round.” And with a blinding flash of dozens of fins Abu realized he was in a shark tank.

The Bushies have gotten real used to Russert and Judy and girl with a new gold star, Andrea Mitchell.

The point that Bush is still out of town while all of this is happening is well-taken. Obviously he’s in the loop but that press conference was a disaster, below the usual extremely high standard for lying and obfuscation.

TPM:

Gonzales: I’m going to get to the bottom of what Harriet and I did.
– Josh Marshall

Romney: No comment on US Attorney Purge.
– Josh Marshall

Phoenix Woman @ 48

I caught it on FOX, alas. They had the reporters’ mikes turned waaaaay down, so it seemed.

oooo to be a fly on the wall in the “news”room there.

I seriously doubt that when Sampson said this,

“We would like to execute this on Thursday, Dec. 7,” Mr. Sampson wrote. Because some United States attorneys were still in Washington attending a conference, he planned to postpone telling them they were being fired. He wrote, “We want to wait until they are back home and dispersed to reduce chatter.”

Mr. Sampson predicted that dismissals might stir debate. “Prepare to Withstand Political Upheaval,” he wrote in describing what to expect as a result of the firings. “U.S Attorneys desiring to save their jobs aided by their allies in the political arena as well as the Justice Department community, likely will make efforts to preserve themselves in office. You should expect these efforts to be strenuous.”

that he meant “have the pork chop suit cleaned and pressed.”

Sampson was supposed to be wearing the suit.

Boy, they are SO far in over their heads now, they are going to have to make up some serious sh*t to get out of this with only the pork chops left in the maw of the press. Maybe the damned press will actually BITE and then BITE again, like it’s supposed to.

wagonjak @
14

Gonzo was not his usual smug, smirking, arrogant self this morning, was he? Instead he looked like a frightened little boy being called out for shitting on mom’s favorite rug…

He has pooped on the Constitution, and that’s a much more serious matter.

This little bastard should resign immediately!

He should resign before they [do something that is not violent to] him! [CHS: because, as you know, talking about anything potentially violent in connection with an Administration official can get you a social call from the Secret Service…]

Gonzales should stick around a couple weeks actually. If he resigns, the media will lose interest.

They love people who are “embatttled” as a theme. I am glad he is sticking it out to be a punching bag for a while longer.

Kyle Sampson is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life. . .

raven @ 37

And the General is dancing too:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The top U.S. military officer, Gen. Peter Pace, said Tuesday he should have focused more on military policy and less on his own opinion when he told a newspaper homosexual acts are immoral. . .

“In expressing my support for the current policy, I also offered some personal opinions about moral conduct,” Pace said in a statement. “I should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views

I guess he just saw the historically falsified version of “300″ where the only homosexuals are not the Spartans…but the Persians!

trifecta @ 68

Gonzales should stick around a couple weeks actually. If he resigns, the media will lose interest.

They love people who are “embatttled” as a theme. I am glad he is sticking it out to be a punching bag for a while longer.

I agree, I don’t want him to resign right now.

So are we going to have a piglet of the year award?

There’s such a field of candidates, and it’s only March.

zhiv @ 62

So great to see the press waking up out of it slumber, kind of like that character under the spell in Lord of the Rings.

The fourth estate, such an ENTerprise

Why does Abu Gonzo hate the Constitution?

angie @ 44

He lied under oath to Congress and he was a greased piglet all the times he’s testified before Congress.

(including the time that Spekter refused to put him under oath b/c it was “unwarranted”!)

grrrrr.

As I said at the time (though it was about the oil execs not being sworn in, not Gonzales, I think), blocking a motion to put a witness under oath is saying “Please lie to us!”

And whaddaya know, every one who got that treatment turns out to have been lying! No one could have predicted…

I smell a rat. A bright, shiny ,rat.
They have had since yesterday to find something to blow smoke up our ass with.

No doubt John Conyers was watching the presser. His questions will be harder to avoid than the newsmedia’s.

Mild rebuke from the WH for the General.

So…did Gonzo already double-check the document dump for any emails sent to him? Or did he believe hubristically that any Miers-Sampson-et-al emails had already been purged in an “irregular archiving process”?

Sampson was supposed make this plausibly deniable, but I’ll put money on a breach in documentation.

Boy, Gonzales sure looked blue at that presser today.

;>)

spurious @ 9

But he did say (right before he squirted) that he stood by the firings. Of course.

1. I take full responsibility.

2. I know nothingk, nothingk.

White House Office of Reduced Expectations (W.H.O.R.E.)

Kyle Sampson is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life. . .

oh great; now for some reason I want to play solitaire

Well, looks like the press corps had some V**gra in their systems this morning. Somebody make a note to keep slipping that into their Cheerios.

darkblack @ 80

Boy, Gonzales sure looked blue at that presser today.

;>)

The big fat liar!!

Elliott @ 71

trifecta @ 68

Gonzales should stick around a couple weeks actually. If he resigns, the media will lose interest.

They love people who are “embatttled” as a theme. I am glad he is sticking it out to be a punching bag for a while longer.

I agree, I don’t want him to resign right now.

We all seem to be on the same page. :D

oddz & endz -

who made the You Sound Like Ken Lay remark ??

who in the hell released that Miers/Sampson e mail ?

Mandrake @ 81

2. I know nothingk, nothingk.

the Sgt. Schultz defense! I blame the coffee pot.

So is there video footage. Did anyone at crooks and liars catch something?

Here’s what Congress needs to do…right away.

They need to call Abu down to testify before the Judiciary Committee. Allow him to testify without swearing in…but then…the first moment that he starts to equivocate or dissemble the Chair should interrupt him and say.

“Mr. Attorney General, we offered you the courtesy of not requiring you to swear on the Constitution of the United States that you would be forthright before Congress and the American People…it’s clear that you are NOT DOING SO…so now I find it necessary to insist that your testimony be SWORN. I ask the Sergeant of Arms to approach Mr. Gonzales for this purpose.”

C-SPAN Momemt!

I always love Watertigers lingering goodbye’s…..

http://www.dependablerenegade……ou_me.html

C-SPAN has the Abu-squirto G presser up here. TRex is right. Except the part about comic opera. Abu-squirto G gives whorehouse vaudeville a bad name, let alone comic opera.

Why would anyone use email when comitting a crime?

Meanwhile, President Bush keeps a firm grip on his carrot as he cracks wise with working poor in Guatemala.

C Augustus – he’s a laugh a minute!

Tim @ 83

Kyle Sampson is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life. . .

oh great; now for some reason I want to play solitaire

Here is info on Sampson from the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03…..mpson.html

cinnamonape @
70

raven @ 37

And the General is dancing too:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The top U.S. military officer, Gen. Peter Pace, said Tuesday he should have focused more on military policy and less on his own opinion when he told a newspaper homosexual acts are immoral. . .

“In expressing my support for the current policy, I also offered some personal opinions about moral conduct,” Pace said in a statement. “I should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views

I guess he just saw the historically falsified version of “300″ where the only homosexuals are not the Spartans…but the Persians!

I saw it last night. Ah, the gay and androgyness Persians, some were Black and Asian too…all pierced up and lots of freaks too. But those Spartans, even though they looked gayer than the Village People were all man baby.

I haven’t seen a bigger homage to fascism since Starship Troopers.

-GSD

Redshift @ 49

TheOtherWA @ 27

That was the worst press conference I’ve ever seen. I really thought Gonzales was gonna break down on national tv. He can’t run the DOJ, and he can’t lie worth a damn, so what’s he doing in the Bush regime?

Ok, screwing up the DOJ is par for the course, but he’s expected to be a good liar.

He was a competent liar back when the GOP was in charge and he knew he could get away with it. Bet he’s pining for the heady days when Republican committee chairs would refuse a motion to put him under oath! But yeah, given that past performance, I didn’t think he’d turn into such a rotten liar when forced to actually face tough questioning.

Best thing since red-faced Leahy laid him out about habeas corpus.

Rayne @ 65 quoted the timing of the firings after they all left the conference gathering.

December 7. Well, there’s a metaphor….

Ed Henry on La-La tour with Dubya lamenting on CNN earlier that the DC stuff is stepping on all the great stories of what Bush wanted to accomplish with this Latin American tour.

My shorter translation: Reap what you sow.

GSD @ 42

General Pace: Gays are immoral. But we will accept felons and white supremacists into the military. Also, that Abu Ghraib stuff wasn’t really gay.

-GSD

It really WASN’T gay (like rape isn’t making love), but I think I know what you’re saying.

What’s your name? Impeachable offense? And you’re here to see whom?

Okay. Take a number and have a seat. There’s a lot of your types already in line.

Lordy … info from the NY times on the new fall guy for this administration – Kyle Sampson.

Link

“As his influence rose inside the Justice Department and the White House, Mr. Sampson decided at some point that he wanted to move directly to the post of United States attorney in Utah, his home state, without serving as a full-time prosecutor first.”

Loyalty trumps competence in this administration – first last and always.

AZMATT -

NYT article fails to mention -

current USA/Utah Toleman – was the “unauthorized staffer” who slipped the USA rider in to the revised Patriot Act :)

Has Gonzo hired Ted Wells yet? Ted, keep those tissues handy!

punaise @
54

raven @ 40

yea, and I’m sure we’ll get someone wayyyyy better, right?

paging John Yoo…

Punaise, is it correct you have a transcript up, and if so where can I find it?

Anybody else tired of hearing the Bush/Cheney/Rove buzzword of the month? “MICROMANAGING!”. UGH! I’m SOOOOOOOOO sick of seeing GOP dummies with Rove’s hand up their backs whining about “MICROMANAGING!”. Of course, one must use the “Rovish to English” dictionary to see that the English definition of the Rovish “MICROMANAGING” is merely OVERSIGHT.

Someone who has the time, should watch the House on C-Span for one entire day and give us a tally of the usage of “MICROMANAGING”. Just while typing this post, I’ve heard it seven times! lol

Redshift @ 49

He was a competent liar back when the GOP was in charge and he knew he could get away with it. Bet he’s pining for the heady days when Republican committee chairs would refuse a motion to put him under oath! But yeah, given that past performance, I didn’t think he’d turn into such a rotten liar when forced to actually face tough questioning.

Was he a competent liar? When the GOP was manhandling Congress, he didn’t really have to be. He certainly never fooled anybody here. The people who actually believed a word that came out of his snout were those who preferred to deal with spoonfed Faux News fantasies instead of the reality in front of their faces.

Justice! @ 103

Has Gonzo hired Ted Wells yet? Ted, keep those tissues handy!

So we’re going from Scooter to Squirter.

Ann in AZ @ 104

yea, and I’m sure we’ll get someone wayyyyy better, right?

paging John Yoo…

Punaise, is it correct you have a transcript up, and if so where can I find it?

LOL: Trex was refering to my comment above: “eebeda, eebeda, eebeda”…the old Porky Pig stutter. Sorry, I have nothing “real”.

Oh the irony.. wasn’t it just a short time ago that Abu was saying he wouldn’t be able to get anything done for the American people if he had to waste all his time answering to Congress?

cbl @ 102

AZMATT -

NYT article fails to mention -

current USA/Utah Toleman – was the “unauthorized staffer” who slipped the USA rider in to the revised Patriot Act :)

Ahh… Such a Stinking Bunch!

I can’t stop laughing.

Just cruised through those DOJ emails. All the premeditated split second coordination to isolate each USA , so they would go quietly and not fight back.

There was a diary up Kos last week from some annymous (onviously ex-fed) who described how they isolate you, smear you, then use you justifiable either rage or depression over hwat they are doing to you, to bootstap what they have done to you.

It was quite chilling. I have been a spectator to this before, but never on such a scale.

And I don’t just mean the 8 slaughtered in 2006/7. This has been going on since the get-go

Ed*ard Teller @ 92

C-SPAN has the Abu-squirto G presser up here. TRex is right. Except the part about comic opera. Abu-squirto G gives whorehouse vaudeville a bad name, let alone comic opera.

Merci Beaucoup for the link. On pause here, I am already a little squeamish watching. Abu has this kind of lisping dry mouth I got once when I had to make a presentation on a senior paper on college *wretched memory* carry on!

Okay, FirePups, here’s a game for you: Guess what the right-wing Wurlitzer say to provide cover to the White House?

Bargain Countertenor @ 56

tejanarusa @ 29

Bargain Countertenor @ 17

Look for him to be seeking to spend some quality time with his family by the end of the month.

BC

We can hope!
If not, IMPEACH HIM!!

Abu’s gonna resign so that he can avoid spending some quality time with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees over this bit of Bushit.

Frankly, I’d prefer that they work up the chain from Abu into 1600. If we’re going to have to go to the trouble of impeaching someone (and we are), then the someone to impeach is the Dim Son himself.

Will he be convicted? Prob’ly not: the Repugnicans in the Senate will circle their wagons around him and prevent a conviction. But then we hang that albatross around their necks in ‘08.

BC

That was tried before with Clinton. It wouldn’t have worked out so well for them, except that Brother Bush promised the (stolen) election and the Supreme Court was so compliant. Remember, Gore won the popular vote in that election.

politicalpollyanna @ 105

Anybody else tired of hearing the Bush/Cheney/Rove buzzword of the month? “MICROMANAGING!”. UGH! I’m SOOOOOOOOO sick of seeing GOP dummies with Rove’s hand up their backs whining about “MICROMANAGING!”. Of course, one must use the “Rovish to English” dictionary to see that the English definition of the Rovish “MICROMANAGING” is merely OVERSIGHT.

Someone who has the time, should watch the House on C-Span for one entire day and give us a tally of the usage of “MICROMANAGING”. Just while typing this post, I’ve heard it seven times! lol

“Micromanaging” was fine when Shooter was doing it to the CIA, wasn’t it?

Ann Coulter for AG. You know they want to do it.

punaise >

“…Sorry, I have nothing “real”.”

Sounds like today`s shorter Abu to me…

“Eventually, the truth will emerge. And when it does, this house of cards, built of deceit, will fall.” – Robert C. Byrd

Rayne @ 114

Okay, FirePups, here’s a game for you: Guess what the right-wing Wurlitzer say to provide cover to the White House?

I’ll take ‘missing white women’ for $500, Rayne.

;>)

puppethead @
36

The other aspect of this that is very, very important, is the blow to Bush himself to lose one of his inner circle. Gonzales has been part of Bush’s insulation since Texas, and with Gonzales removed Bush will be even that much more exposed. Each of these kinds of developments makes it that much harder for “Team Bush” to spend time on their destructive agenda.

It’s like a classic mob investigation… Peel off the low hangiing fruit and use them to gather information on the higher ups. Just like Pablo Escobar. Keep peeling, boys!

OT, I sent emails to all my congresscritters following the Dana Priest story in th ComPost. So far, I have received an email back from Dick Lugar’s office, and a letter back from the odious Dan Burton. Who have I not heard from yet? Evan Bayh. Go figure…

Abu seems to have two choices here:
(1) lie to Congress and be fired for perjury, or
(2) blame it all on others and be fired for incompetence.

That’s a really good box he’s put himself in, isn’t it?

Gonzales. What a lying sack. I hope the Dems keep after him, and after Rove. I’m sick and tired of their attitude that the only laws that count are the ones that work against their opponents. They really do believe they are above the law. Somebody please prove them wrong.

Mandrake @
107

Justice! @ 103

Has Gonzo hired Ted Wells yet? Ted, keep those tissues handy!

So we’re going from Scooter to Squirter.

When he resigns/fired, he will most likely get a cushy position at Hallisquirton

I am catching up on the Schumer/Feinstein presser video from this morning. Chuck sure sounds ticked off. Karl, Karl, Karl, what will we do without you? The AG/Rove Axis of Evil is in big time elephnat poo.

ccmask @ 93

Why would anyone use email when comitting a crime?

I honestly think that they all believed that they were untouchable. Remember, they didn’t expect to lose both houses of congress. The press has been more than sheepish. They got used to having no investigations, accountability, and oversight from anybody.

On top of that, as I mentioned above, Gonzalez said something like “what we do know is that the communication with the US Attorneys was not good enough.” I have to look at the transcript or the tape; I think was towards the end, when the knives were out and he was panicking. I think they believed that the attorneys were really supposed to work for the WhiteHouse’s political ends, that that is their primary purpose. They crossed the line so long ago that they probably “kind of forgot” where it was. Remember that this is a very special kind of lawyer who believes in torture but not the Geneva Convention or Habeas Corpus, so US attorneys serving primarily a political function isn’t a big stretch.

Ed*ard Teller @ 92

C-SPAN has the Abu-squirto G presser up here. TRex is right. Except the part about comic opera. Abu-squirto G gives whorehouse vaudeville a bad name, let alone comic opera.

“Mr. Gonzales, I was on stage with Chesty LaRue: I knew Chesty LaRue; Chesty LaRue was a friend of mine. Mr. Gonzales, you’re no Chesty LaRue.”

trifecta @ 117

Ann Coulter for AG. You know they want to do it.

No, Bush will nominate Laura or Barney.

What I would like a Dem to say is that Repubs are not for voter fraud, they are for voter suppression. Maybe John Edwards or Obama will step forward….

Congratulations fdl for 30,000,000 site visits!

————–Geeks R Us

One more thing . . . .

While cleaning house and listening to Berto bumble his way through his press conference, he kept talking about firing USAs that were not serving the taxpayers. He said it several times. In the case of Carol Lam my question to AGAG is this . . . If investigating, prosecuting and incarcerating Duke Cunningham was a service to the taxpayers; WHAT THE HECK IS?! If prosecuting and bringing to justice elected officials who violate the public trust and spend taxpayers’ money based on personal gain instead of stewardship can’t be considered service; I’m sure I don’t know what “serving the taxpayers” means.

P.S. – Anybody watching the “OFFICIAL TRUTH SQUAD” on C-Span? ROFL Good grief! Where do they get this shit?

Rayne @ 114

Okay, FirePups, here’s a game for you: Guess what the right-wing Wurlitzer say to provide cover to the White House?

Bill Clinton did it too.

-GSD

cinnamonape @ 61

Did anyone ask him if Harry Meirs thought that ALL the US Attorneys were underperforming. She suggested they all be fired, after all.

Wouldn’t that indicate that the DOJ under Gonzo was an utter failure?

Or was there some other reason that Harry wanted this complete an utter purge rather than incompetancy? I suggest that those targetted were not only performing well, but fired for doing jobs in a legitimate, non-political, manner.

The answer to this question can be found in this link.

egregious @ 130

Congratulations fdl for 30,000,000 site visits!

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if I had gave a nickel for every time I hit “refresh’….

even if abu torture resigns, that does NOT mean he stops working for the president

remember, rumsfeld still has a friggin desk at the pentagon and still gets payed as some kind of consultant

and what does he mean “his assistant is working their till he finds another job”?

puppethead @ 62

raven @ 40

yea, and I’m sure we’ll get someone wayyyyy better, right?

Of course not. Look at the parade of scum being put in charge of Army Medicine. But Gonzales is a special Bush underling. Bush has no doubt about his loyalty. Any replacement won’t be as close to Bush, nor as effectively evil. So even the worst person imaginable (Harriet Miers?) won’t be as bad for this country or as helpful to Bush’s death cult as Gonzales.

Does the name Holy Joe Lieberman sound familiar?

It seems they were originally going to can all 93 Prosecutors. Do you think they were actually trying to get rid of Fitz without it looking like he was the actual target?

punaise @
88

Mandrake @ 81

2. I know nothingk, nothingk.

the Sgt. Schultz defense! I blame the coffee pot.

3. I don’t know beans…

I notice Chuck uses “a dark cloud over rthe White House”. Remind you of someone else’s dark cloud comment?

nanakat @ 137

It seems they were originally going to can all 93 Prosecutors. Do you think they were actually trying to get rid of Fitz without it looking like he was the actual target?

I thought the same thing

For anyone like me who missed the pisser presser, Shakes Sis has it up. Scroll down.

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/

Have some more popcorn!

I watched on MSNBC, and couldn’t hear the questions either. My impression was of flopsweat and glottal fry (voice science speak for very very nervous vocal cords). The first question, and maybe the second seemed like setups, half expected the camera to pan back to show “Jeff Gannon” with his bucket -o- softballs.

AZ Matt >

“…The AG/Rove Axis of Evil is in big time elephnat poo.”

While I agree with you I think we all need to start expecting some “events” to happen as big distractions to all this, maybe even something along the lines of an “Terrorist” attack or maybe capture of Osama Ben Forgotten or ???

I don`t think “missing white women” is going to quite do it this time.

And, yes, I am serious.

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” – George Bernard Shaw

politicalpollyanna @ 131

One more thing . . . .

While cleaning house and listening to Berto bumble his way through his press conference, he kept talking about firing USAs that were not serving the taxpayers. He said it several times. In the case of Carol Lam my question to AGAG is this . . . If investigating, prosecuting and incarcerating Duke Cunningham was a service to the taxpayers; WHAT THE HECK IS?! If prosecuting and bringing to justice elected officials who violate the public trust and spend taxpayers’ money based on personal gain instead of stewardship can’t be considered service; I’m sure I don’t know what “serving the taxpayers” means.

P.S. – Anybody watching the “OFFICIAL TRUTH SQUAD” on C-Span? ROFL Good grief! Where do they get this shit?

Okay, dear, apparently you have not caught on. Repeat after me: Serving the taxpayers only applies to prosecuting Democrats. However, when it involves Republicans, it’s called a “political witchunt” and a waste of taxpayer money. ;)

Albertoe, graduated from the Karl Rove school of shameless partisanship, majoring in subverting that GD piece of paper: the US Constitution.

Its like a cancer, YIKES

nanakat @ 137

It seems they were originally going to can all 93 Prosecutors. Do you think they were actually trying to get rid of Fitz without it looking like he was the actual target?

Quite plausible. I also saw a blurb today that linked the firings to the Abramoff investigations (HuffPo, I believe). Yeah, Abu’s up to his eyeballs in this shit, and he knows he’s about to drown. Funny how accountability can sneak up on you (not ha-ha funny, though).

Abu Ghraib Torture Gonzalez

TPM has the Feinstein/Schumer attorney firing statement from this morning up on video.

perris @ 135

and what does he mean “his assistant is working their till he finds another job”?

They wouldn’t want him to enter the cold, cruel world of K Street consultancy all by his widdle self, would they?

;>)

egregious @ 130

Congratulations fdl for 30,000,000 site visits!

————–Geeks R Us

30 million? And FDl doesn’t auto refresh in 3 minute intervals like Drudge. Should the advertising rates be going up? Just sayin’s all

Froomkin is up:

Why Prosecutors Shouldn’t Act Like Partisans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00879.html

Dan Bartlett to speak from Mexico. Live on MSNBC

Abu is going down.

Dixie Chick: “I’m ashamed that our Attorney General is from Texas.”

GSD @ 132

Rayne @ 114

Okay, FirePups, here’s a game for you: Guess what the right-wing Wurlitzer say to provide cover to the White House?

Bill Clinton did it too.

-GSD

Go to the head of the class.

At least Kneel Cavuto can talk about how great the economy is today.

-GSD

Yeah, Abu’s up to his eyeballs in this shit, and he knows he’s about to drown. Funny how accountability can sneak up on you (not ha-ha funny, though).

Would seem the “KARLma,” is about to hit the fan!!!

More on Brett Tolman..
http://hatch.senate.gov/index……se_id=1623

US Senator Orrin Hatch
July 21st, 2006 Media Contact(s): Peter Carr (202) 224-9854,
Jared Whitley (202) 224-0134
Printable Version
SENATE APPROVES BRETT TOLMAN AS UTAH’S U.S. ATTORNEY
Utahn Is Former Hatch Staffer

Brett Tolman, U.S. Attorney for Utah
Washington – The Senate by unanimous consent today approved Utahn Brett Tolman to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) recommended that President Bush nominate the Provo native, who has served as Hatch’s counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

From this it looks like Hatch did the deed and not Specter. No wonder Arlen did not know WTF was going on.

raven @ 40

puppethead @ 36

It’s clear now Gonzales won’t be in his job much longer. It will be good for this country to get rid of someone who serves as a political operative, promotes torture, has no understanding of law or the Constitution and generally does shoddy work (see his death clemency work in Texas).

The other aspect of this that is very, very important, is the blow to Bush himself to lose one of his inner circle. Gonzales has been part of Bush’s insulation since Texas, and with Gonzales removed Bush will be even that much more exposed. Each of these kinds of developments makes it that much harder for “Team Bush” to spend time on their destructive agenda.

yea, and I’m sure we’ll get someone wayyyyy better, right?

Hey, at least it keeps them busy!

The more time they have to spend doing this, the less time they have to plot mischief.

And as was pointed out, Gonzales is one of Bush’s best buds — losing him is like losing one of his security blankets that kept him insulated from reality.

Seen this:

http://journals.democraticunde…..sPapers/83

Totally blows away arguments against impeachment!

looseheadprop @ 113

Just cruised through those DOJ emails. All the premeditated split second coordination to isolate each USA , so they would go quietly and not fight back.

There was a diary up Kos last week from some annymous (onviously ex-fed) who described how they isolate you, smear you, then use you justifiable either rage or depression over hwat they are doing to you, to bootstap what they have done to you.

It was quite chilling. I have been a spectator to this before, but never on such a scale.

And I don’t just mean the 8 slaughtered in 2006/7. This has been going on since the get-go

LHP,

The eight would have gone quietly. They are political appointees, and they all understand that they serve at the pleasure of the Dim Son.

I really believe that what tore it was when the DoJ said they had all been fired for incompetence in office. It’s one thing to go quietly, something entirely different when your former employer stabs you in the back on your way out the door.

And there’s some delicious iron flavor in trying to figure out how anyone in the Dim Son’s administration could possibly recognize poor performance. They must be vampires, because they don’t see themselves in that mirror.

BC

Now we have a Press Conference about Bushys’ trip to Mexico. Running Interference?

nanakat @ 137

It seems they were originally going to can all 93 Prosecutors. Do you think they were actually trying to get rid of Fitz without it looking like he was the actual target?

They walked right up to the line of getting rid of Fitz right out in public. HAd Sen Fitzgerald not gone to bat for him, the tall man in the rumpled suit might have found himself with only the one job, in DC.

daCascadian @
144

AZ Matt >

“…The AG/Rove Axis of Evil is in big time elephnat poo.”

While I agree with you I think we all need to start expecting some “events” to happen as big distractions to all this, maybe even something along the lines of an “Terrorist” attack or maybe capture of Osama Ben Forgotten or ???

I don`t think “missing white women” is going to quite do it this time.

And, yes, I am serious.

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” – George Bernard Shaw

Seek and you shall find.

-GSD

Redshift @ 48

TheOtherWA @ 27
That was the worst press conference I’ve ever seen. I really thought Gonzales was gonna break down on national tv. He can’t run the DOJ, and he can’t lie worth a damn, so what’s he doing in the Bush regime?

Ok, screwing up the DOJ is par for the course, but he’s expected to be a good liar.

He was a competent liar back when the GOP was in charge and he knew he could get away with it. Bet he’s pining for the heady days when Republican committee chairs would refuse a motion to put him under oath! But yeah, given that past performance, I didn’t think he’d turn into such a rotten liar when forced to actually face tough questioning.

That’s the thing about the Bushistas: It’s been so long since any of them have had to play by the rules that when the rules come to bite ‘em in the ass, they freak.

Without that nice Republican-Majority Firewall between them and reality, they fold like Superman on laundry day.

TPM muckraker has posted the pdf’s of released messages. They appear to be down now.

I think this is the smoking gun regarding Carol Lam’s firing.

On May 31, 2006

Kyle Sampson sends a blueberry message to Bill Mercer(ODAG)

Has ODAG ever called Carol Lam and woodshedded her re immigration? Has anyone?
If the AG ordered 20 more prosecuters to S.D. Cal. to do immigration only, where would we get them from(remember the premise: AG has ordered it)?
Please advise.

John Yoo next attorney general.

AZ Matt @ 139

I notice Chuck uses “a dark cloud over rthe White House”. Remind you of someone else’s dark cloud comment?

That Fitz, sure knows how to frame a message, don’t he?

My impression was of flopsweat and glottal fry (voice science speak for very very nervous vocal cords)

Oh lordy. And here I thought Abu was a professional, The dark master of the Torture Memo.

Reporter: how can you make that kenny lay excuse?

looseheadprop @ 151
egregious @ 130
Congratulations fdl for 30,000,000 site visits!

————–Geeks R Us
*******

30 million? And FDl doesn’t auto refresh in 3 minute intervals like Drudge. Should the advertising rates be going up? Just sayin’s all

Not necessary, because punaise refreshes often enough to keep our numbers up.

JPL @
168

John Yoo next attorney general.

Alan Dershowitz. the glove fits…

egregious @ 171

looseheadprop @ 151
egregious @ 130
Congratulations fdl for 30,000,000 site visits!

————–Geeks R Us
*******

30 million? And FDl doesn’t auto refresh in 3 minute intervals like Drudge. Should the advertising rates be going up? Just sayin’s all

Not necessary, because punaise refreshes often enough to keep our numbers up.

it’s amazing how it contributes to billable work, too!

daCascadian @ 144

AZ Matt >

“…The AG/Rove Axis of Evil is in big time elephnat poo.”

While I agree with you I think we all need to start expecting some “events” to happen as big distractions to all this, maybe even something along the lines of an “Terrorist” attack or maybe capture of Osama Ben Forgotten or ???

I don`t think “missing white women” is going to quite do it this time.

And, yes, I am serious.

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” – George Bernard Shaw

See, I ake the opposite view. What if all this is the distraction so we don’t notice what else they are doing today.

Poor Kyle Sampson is gonna learn the meaning of being “woodshedded” real soon.

-GSD

Good luck Kyle, these people ruin others lives as a bloodsport…they have done it so often and with such frequency they are blood drunk.

Hope you are looking forward to a ruined life.

punaise @ 134

egregious @ 130

Congratulations fdl for 30,000,000 site visits!

————–Geeks R Us

if I had gave a nickel for every time I hit “refresh’….

Aint that the truth…!

Hiya punaise and egregious!

Great stuff TRex. “he spun on his heel and like a greased piglet, and all but squirted from the room” Your similes drip with contempt. I love it!

Pach has a fresh thread, up top and ready for the reading.

An important thing to remember here is that they are screwing their own.

They appointed these SAGs. They are now screwing them over.

Mr. Libby, please note.

ccmask @
74

Why does Abu Gonzo hate the Constitution?

…the same reason a rat hates a moat.

I know Republicans like to portray Democrats as a party of wusses, but Mr. Gonzales’ perfomance says they scared him pretty good. He wants to get his excuses reasons out in public, before he’s back testifying under oath. Alberto sent up a spinning trial balloon today, hoping for some popular support. Cause, you know, he works for the Amercan people. But, Mr. Gonzales knows, the Democrats are going to slowly roast him and put a nice big shiny apple in his mouth. He’s done. Calling Mary Matalin, please start another defense fund.

My favorite part (paraphrased):

AG: I can’t know every piece of information in a department with 100,000 employees.

Q: How could you not know what was going on between your chief of staff and the president.

AG: There are 100,000 employees!! That’s, like, a lot!

looseheadprop @ 174

daCascadian @ 144

AZ Matt >

“…The AG/Rove Axis of Evil is in big time elephnat poo.”

While I agree with you I think we all need to start expecting some “events” to happen as big distractions to all this, maybe even something along the lines of an “Terrorist” attack or maybe capture of Osama Ben Forgotten or ???

I don`t think “missing white women” is going to quite do it this time.

And, yes, I am serious.

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” – George Bernard Shaw

See, I ake the opposite view. What if all this is the distraction so we don’t notice what else they are doing today.

That is the attitude that rankles me. Bush and Rove are not all powerful and everything that happens isn’t calculated by them. If so they’d be sitting back with a big Republican Majority in both houses without a worry in the world. They screw up often and they are off their game.

As it stands Bush has debased himself to flying around South America trying to convince people that he REALLY is a good guy and America is not the evil empire.

That is what losers do.

-GSD

looseheadprop @ 169

AZ Matt @ 139

I notice Chuck uses “a dark cloud over rthe White House”. Remind you of someone else’s dark cloud comment?

That Fitz, sure knows how to frame a message, don’t he?

Ya, and it shows folks on the Hill were following the Scooter/Shooter/Pooter case.

Meanwhile Latest FaBlog: Triumph of the Willy

Ed*ard Teller @ 172

JPL @
168

John Yoo next attorney general.

Alan Dershowitz. the glove fits…

What’s the rule on interim appointments? I don’t think that Johnny Boy would ever make it through confirmation given his public pronouncements. He’s Anne Coulter with an LL.D.

Boudica @ 180

I know Republicans like to portray Democrats as a party of wusses, but Mr. Gonzales’ perfomance says they scared him pretty good. He wants to get his excuses reasons out in public, before he’s back testifying under oath. Alberto sent up a spinning trial balloon today, hoping for some popular support. Cause, you know, he works for the Amercan people. But, Mr. Gonzales knows, the Democrats are going to slowly roast him and put a nice big shiny apple in his mouth. He’s done. Calling Mary Matalin, please start another defense fund.

Can Karen Hughes and Pickles be far behind? The Harpies of Salvation are going to be dusted off pronto.

-GSD

Rep. Melancon giving holy hell to the guvmint (leslie norwalk from medicare/medicaid and by extension, HHS Leavitt) wrt the terrible health care @ not for profit hospitals in LA post Katrina @ the hearing.

awesome.

Ed*ard Teller @ 171

JPL @
168
John Yoo next attorney general.

Alan Dershowitz. the glove fits…

You mean he’d be the Token Democrat like Norman Mineta or (the DINO) Richard Perle?

Actually, I can see Bush going for the Big Eff You and appointing Harriet Miers.

angie @ 185

Rep. Melancon giving holy hell to the guvmint (leslie norwalk from medicare/medicaid and by extension, HHS Leavitt) wrt the terrible health care @ not for profit hospitals in LA post Katrina @ the hearing.

awesome.

Ooooh! Is this on C-Span?

This could make a person barf.
Sen Specter is just chiding Leahy and Schumer on the floor in that he thinks there is no need to supeana WH folks about the USAs purge. He thinks that Turd et al should be politley requested to appear before the Committees and if they refuse then they should be supeanad (sp) otherwise the perception could be that they are guilty. For crying out loud while Specter was chairperson of Judiciary he did didly squat about oversight. Hypocrisy knows no bounds with these GOPers.
Polite request hell! Put chains on their legs and bring ‘em before us I say (in bloody anger).

Bloggers take a bow…
From Jay Carney at Time (3/13/2007)

Here’s part of his statement:

When this story first surfaced, I thought the Bush White House and Justice Department were guilty of poorly executed acts of crass political patronage. I called some Democrats on the Hill; they were “concerned”, but this was not a priority. The blogosphere was the engine on this story, pulling the Hill and the MSM along. As the document dump proves, what happened was much worse than I’d first thought. I was wrong. Very nice work, and thanks for holding my feet to the fire.

nomolos @ 190

This could make a person barf.
Sen Specter is just chiding Leahy and Schumer on the floor in that he thinks there is no need to supeana WH folks about the USAs purge. He thinks that Turd et al should be politley requested to appear before the Committees and if they refuse then they should be supeanad (sp) otherwise the perception could be that they are guilty. For crying out loud while Specter was chairperson of Judiciary he did didly squat about oversight. Hypocrisy knows no bounds with these GOPers.
Polite request hell! Put chains on their legs and bring ‘em before us I say (in bloody anger).

that’s because they might put him under oath.

nanakat @ 137

It seems they were originally going to can all 93 Prosecutors. Do you think they were actually trying to get rid of Fitz without it looking like he was the actual target?

The answer to this question can be found at the link in my #136.

Biodun >

Dixie Chick: “I’m ashamed that our Attorney General is from Texas.”

Followed, shortly, by another hit album from the group

“If only they’d spent more time making war on each other in the first place, they might have had less time for making war on Iraq.” – Alexander Wolfe

nomolos @ 190

This could make a person barf.
Sen Specter is just chiding Leahy and Schumer on the floor in that he thinks there is no need to supeana WH folks about the USAs purge. He thinks that Turd et al should be politley requested to appear before the Committees and if they refuse then they should be supeanad (sp)

The word you’re reaching for is subpoena — IIRC, it’s Latin.

Today’s presser was, IMHO, a set-up for the Mighty Spew Machine to advance the position that 1) personnel decisions are entirely at whim of the Chimperor; and 2) hey, he admitted mistakes were made…ok?…but the moving Third Finger having writ stays writ, etc. etc.

My concern is that the Dems in Congress lack the gumption to get over the huge wall of push-back that the aforesaid Spew Machine will now vomit forth. I hope I’m yo way wrong…I haven’t seen alot yet to convince me that I am, however.

The word you’re reaching for is subpoena — IIRC, it’s Latin.

Thanks/sorry. some words just don’e want to be spelled.

Wonder how Bush got along with all those Latin speakers this last week.

Ann in AZ @ 193

nanakat @ 137

It seems they were originally going to can all 93 Prosecutors. Do you think they were actually trying to get rid of Fitz without it looking like he was the actual target?

The answer to this question can be found at the link in my #136.

I can’t find a link or a reference to Fitz.

What I cant get out my head is all the dems lining up to see who could give Gonzo the most shining accolades when he was going thru the approval process. How could this creep have made it past the hearings to approve him? Hes the male version of Harriet Miers but made it thru the system. I hope the dems see what their refusal to stop this incompetent Bush loyalist from getting this position has done. Their bowing down to Bush and the republicans are as much to blame for this slimy fuck doing his Bush dirty work as anything.

Rayne @ 79

So…did Gonzo already double-check the document dump for any emails sent to him? Or did he believe hubristically that any Miers-Sampson-et-al emails had already been purged in an “irregular archiving process”?

Sampson was supposed make this plausibly deniable, but I’ll put money on a breach in documentation.

Sort of like 18 minutes of blank tape.

Keep in mind that the Republicans could care less about the Constitution and the MSM’s darlings will do whatever it takes to protect their paymasters and their priviledged postions. Only until such time that the MSM is completely discredited and ultimately destroyed will there be any hope for our Constitutional Republic, but then again most Americans could give a rat’s ass. They are far to occupied with American Idol, Survivor, their favorite pro team, nationalism and the myth of American exceptionalism. Relatives in Europe are stunned at the ignorance of the American public.

Rayne @
114

Okay, FirePups, here’s a game for you: Guess what the right-wing Wurlitzer say to provide cover to the White House?

george bush comes to the podium, begins to address the issue, then says:

hey, look, space aliens are attacking earth

nothing to see here

I think Arlen came up with what will be a pretty effective Thuglican talking point today in the NYTs, “This issue is too complicated to understand,” and that, “we need time to digest all of this.”

It looks as if he’s started the flip. Just the other day he was hinting that the AG would go, now he’s protecting the administration.

Won’t somebody investigate him. Afterall, it was under his watch that the language was inserted into the Patriot Act. Why should he get a free pass?

The “Peter Principle” has been supplanted by the “Bush Principle”: people placed in high level positions with unimaginable levels of incompetence coupled with an insatiable desire to enrich themselves.

jonnyra @ 199

What I cant get out my head is all the dems lining up to see who could give Gonzo the most shining accolades when he was going thru the approval process. How could this creep have made it past the hearings to approve him? Hes the male version of Harriet Miers but made it thru the system.

Miers was up for being a Supreme Court justice, and didn’t even make it to first base. Very different deal from confirming an Attorney General. And it was a Republican-controlled committee and Senate as well. Would have liked to see a harder press on torture memo, of course, but it was a very different time and place.

TRex,

Your commentary urged me to find the link to the presser at C-Span (thanks, ET!) and I must say, you nailed it!

I even added the “weeee-weee-weeee!” squeal sound effects as Abu turned his corkscrew-like tail and ran…

TOO FUNNY. This is Popcorn time, folks!

I know this is a rather shallow and most likely useless comment, but for some reason one in which I feel like making anyway (especially down here in epuland)…Google and take a look at pictures of Kyle Sampson Abu’s COS and the latest victim to be thrown under the bus by kkKarl fall guy du jour for the WH. YOu know Kyle is now part of the COS Gone Wild Club brought to us from the adults in charge. Anwyay, Kyle looks like a younger, thinner and hairier version of the pigboy himself. I know this doesn’t really matter, but I wonder if that is what attracted kkKarl to him.
Did I mention how much I dislike these lying sacks running our country these days?

Just a heads-up: Talking about people named ‘Gonzalez’ and applying any pejorative involving a conjugation of the term ‘grease’ is typically a no-go in civil society in the US.