I guess memory lapse must now be a key job requirement for folks at the White House.

Gonzo will be a popular Professor, because “I do not recall” will be a perfectly acceptable answer to any test question.

I looked on the Texas Tech website and there’s nothing about his appointment up at all.. I guess they’re trying to keep it quiet. I wonder who twisted whose arm to get him that job.

I also have to wonder (per Teddy’s link) how many of those in Lubbock who oppose his faculty appointment do so because he’s Latino not because he’s a war criminal.

I wonder if Gonzo ever wishes that he had not thrown his lot in with the Bush machine that just grinds people up and spits them out. I’ll bet he does. He was used and may or may not have been smart enough to realize that. He doesn’t appear to be very bright IMO.

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU said of the decision: “Eric Holder’s Justice Department stood up in court today and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government. This is not change. This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again.”

Ben Wizner, a staff attorney with the ACLU, who argued the case for the plaintiffs said, “We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the [Obama] Justice Department has chosen to continue the Bush administration’s practice of dodging judicial scrutiny of extraordinary rendition and torture. This was an opportunity for the new administration to act on its condemnation of torture and rendition, but instead it has chosen to stay the course. Now we must hope that the court will assert its independence by rejecting the government’s false claims of state secrets and allowing the victims of torture and rendition their day in court.”

link

Mr. Gonzales’ legacy is being cemented in place by the new Democratic administration . . . that’s the hope-n-change bait-n-switch that so many fell for.

CRS was an infectuous disease in the Bush WH. (CRS – Can’t Remember Shit)

Wah…Wahh.. Gonzo is whining and does not deserve his burden. What did he do that was so wrong? Besides trashing that Goddam Piece of Paper called the Constitution.

Would you agree that your reputation was damaged by your service as attorney general?

It has had an effect, a negative effect, no question about it, and at times it makes me angry because it is undeserved. But I don’t want to sound like I am whining. At the end of the day, I’ve been the attorney general of the United States. It’s a remarkable privilege, and I stand behind my service…

“What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?”

Actually, I heard somewhere that about 70 (I think that’s the number) profs at the U of T have signed a petition objecting to the possibility of awarding him faculty status at that esteemed institution.

Once Gonzo is dragged into this fully, anyone think he might be “teaching” somewhere other than TT?!

“He doesn’t appear to be very bright IMO.”

When you compare him to (say) a tree stump, for example, he appears very bright.

East Death Valley U, maybe?

Googling “site:ttu.edu Texas tech alberto gonzales” brought 115 hits of items from the Texas Tech website. There are plenty of pieces about the appointment, including coverage of the backlash and protests.

oh I don’t know. I think that there are at least four types who would serve in a rogue regime, like shrub’s. The first: good people or at least less than totally evil people who didn’t know what they were getting into and who quit when they figured out just how craven their colleagues are (O’Neill, Donaldson, Whitman, Kuo, Ashcroft, Powell). The second: the complicit – people who were happy to go along with the evil and do evil themselves in return for the chance to bask in the presence of the great (Gonzo, Libby, Condi, Meyers), third: the depraved (Rove, Chertoff, Yoo). The fourth: the fanatics and koolaid drinkers (Cheney, Goodling, Paulose, probably shrub himself).

Gonzo was the Peter Principle writ very, very large.

He had no business on the Texas Supreme Court, let alone any of his appointments in Bushworld, DC. Oh, well, it’s the scrap heap for you now, Fredo — say hi to Katharine Harris, another Bush discard.

I think he was sending/receiving all those e-mails on his lapse-top.

I used their law school’s own search engine. Nothing came up.

Ahem.

I know Peter.
Peter is a friend of mine . . .

And AGAG’s principles are about as far from mine as one can get.

I think he should teach at San Francisco State University so Teddy can audit the class and ask alot of questions.

Ah, there’s your problem.

His appointment is NOT in the law school. They apparently have the good sense not to want him anywhere near their students. He’s got a general appointment to the university, to assist in recruiting undergraduates.

From the July 7 press release announcing his appointment:

Gonzales will assist both Texas Tech University and Angelo State University with recruiting and retaining first generation and underrepresented students. He will work with Texas Tech’s Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement in the planning of a first generation and minority student leadership training and development program.

He also will teach a junior-level seminar course, “Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch” in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech. As a visiting professor Gonzales will guest lecture to classes across the campus.

hilarious.

I like it.

That’s a very good breakdown and I’m just sorta meandering about Gonzo. He just strikes me as being someone who never expected to be anybody, who was so flattered by being in the administration that he really didn’t GET it. He appears to be really dumb – I know he was telling lies to Congress but even then, he didn’t seem to understand the magnitude of what he was doing.

The answers to which Abu will not recall!

(… and Peterr, sorry about the Principle, dude.)

What is hilarious is that “minority recruitment/retention” are exactly what the Rs have been fighting all these years. Hypocrite much?

Jane is upstairs!
Whipping Blue Dogs on Single Payer

I had something very witty and pithy to say about Alberto Gonzales but, inspired by his example, I can no longer remember what it was.