Gonzales to Resign

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Another victim of the Democrat Hate Squad. :mad: They hate Bush and try to destroy anyone associated with him. :mad:
 
Wander,

I quite agree. His resignation is sad but not surprising. Whichever minority they can’t keep on the plantation they seek to destroy. It’s sort of their Sharia law.

CDL

PS Since you are from Southfield are you familiar with the Chaldean community in your area? Do you know or know about Bishop Ibrahim? Are you familiar with the Byzantine Catholic Church there?
 
WanderAimlessly said:
Another victim of the Democrat Hate Squad. :mad: They hate Bush and try to destroy anyone associated with him. :mad:
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No probably the Republican hate squad that wants to eliminate criticism of Gonzales as an election issue but at the same time use him as a martyr to cause brought down by an unreasonable power hunger hate squad and rally the party faithful.

Don’t you see how silly both statemetns are?

I don’t have a party affiliation but I can see that even the hint of some of the stuff that was going on has no place in the AG office.
Say what you want but at least Richardson and Ruckelshaus had the ethics to resign rather than taint the office.

Glad that he is gone. Sooner would have been better.

the hearings for his replacement will be… interesting. :eek:
 
I am interested in the upcoming hearings and anticipate the following question to be somewhat of a litmus test to be passed by the next A.G….

“Sir, if chosen to be Attorney General, would you approve an investigation of the previous activities of the Justice Department?”
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Well, the Democrates better get their show trails in now, in a few months once the election year really gets going, if they keep their low poll numbers, they might not fair so well.
 
steveandersen said:
I don’t have a party affiliation but I can see that even the hint of some of the stuff that was going on has no place in the AG office.
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I think it is fair to compare the treatement of Janet Reno with that of Alberto Gonzales to see the unpleasant difference in the way the two parties deal with their political opponents. Gonzales was not the best of AGs but Reno was surely one of the worst, despite which she was never treated like he was.

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I think it is fair to compare the treatement of Janet Reno with that of Alberto Gonzales to see the unpleasant difference in the way the two parties deal with their political opponents. Gonzales was not the best of AGs but Reno was surely one of the worst, despite which she was never treated like he was.

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There are unpleasant differences between the manner in which the two parties attack their opponents, and I contend that Gonzales is with those who take the lower road.
 
Paralabagne said:
I am interested in the upcoming hearings and anticipate the following question to be somewhat of a litmus test to be passed by the next A.G….

“Sir, if chosen to be Attorney General, would you approve an investigation of the previous activities of the Justice Department?”
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You are probably right. But so far they have investigated ad naseum and have found nothing. But that does not stop the investigating. Meanwhile, issues need to be resolved, things need to be passed, but investigating seems to be the most important thing on the minds of our Congress. For shame!
 
IIRC Reno was treated quite roughly

From her testimony at her confirmation hearings where she pretty much had to come out and say “yes I’m a tall, short haired, deep voiced, single woman but I do like men” to criticism for the handling of the Elian Gonzales & Branch Dravidian cases, misidentifying Jewell in the Atlanta bombings, and the Microsoft suit et al.

politics is a rough game after all. If you want to play at those levels you have to have a thick skin.
 
mary_bobo said:
You are probably right. But so far they have investigated ad naseum and have found nothing. But that does not stop the investigating. Meanwhile, issues need to be resolved, things need to be passed, but investigating seems to be the most important thing on the minds of our Congress. For shame!
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oversight is the primary congressional responsibility
 
mary_bobo said:
You are probably right. But so far they have investigated ad naseum and have found nothing. But that does not stop the investigating. Meanwhile, issues need to be resolved, things need to be passed, but investigating seems to be the most important thing on the minds of our Congress. For shame!
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Congress has found nothing because the key players are refusing to go on the record and subject themselves to the long arm of the law. There is much to uncover and uncover we will.
 
I am not finding very many people sorry to see him go. WaPo has a profile of the Gonzales. “In the end, Gonzales was a man without a constituency outside of the White House.
 
Stuff like this is one reason why it is beyond me why anybody in their right, sane mind would want to be a holder of public office—any office.

In the unlikely event that somebody wanted to nominate me for a public office, I would run, screaming in terror, in the opposite direction as fast as I could.

“If nominated, I will not run, and if elected, I will not serve.”
 
Although my husband is pleased, I don’t think all of these people should just get to mess everything up and then take off.

There really seemed to be no difference between his job performance as WH Counsel and as the AG; he was just a disaster and clearly unqualified. I still can’t believe he was on the Supreme Court of Texas. But when I try to think of the worst thing he had a hand in, I’m torn between his legal wrangling for torture and his late-night trip to the intensive care unit to try to get a seriously ill John Ashcroft to approve an apparently illegal wire-tapping operation.
 
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Just talked to a DOJ source who says this is how he understands it: Gonzales went to Texas last week to spend time with his family and reflect. He thought the Josh Bolten rule about if you’re going to stay on now, you should stay to the end of the administration applied to him too. He decided to leave based on the stress and impact on his family of staying on the job; on the distraction staying would have represented to the department; on the work he had done to get the department stabilized (put in place a new deputy AG, changed hiring practices, and referred entire mess to the IG); on the fact that, with a huge FISA fight coming, the department needed someone with 100% credibility leading it. He also has a kid in college and another coming up and wants to earn some money to pay college expenses. This source says of the resignation, “I have no reason to believe it wasn’t fully his decision.”

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steveandersen said:
oversight is the primary congressional responsibility
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I have nothing against oversight. But I don’t equate what is happening with oversight. I did not care for Gonzalez from the beginning and he has not helped himself in the least. But with all the probing and hunting, they still have not found anything–yet they persist. They may continue on, probably will, but as I said before, there is much to be done and it is not being done. No wonder the approval rating of the Congress is now at 18%. Perhaps you approve of this constant probing and prodding hoping to find something. I do not.
 
mary_bobo said:
I have nothing against oversight. But I don’t equate what is happening with oversight. I did not care for Gonzalez from the beginning and he has not helped himself in the least. But with all the probing and hunting, they still have not found anything–yet they persist. They may continue on, probably will, but as I said before, there is much to be done and it is not being done. No wonder the approval rating of the Congress is now at 18%. Perhaps you approve of this constant probing and prodding hoping to find something. I do not.
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They have found pretty strong evidence that Gonzalez committed perjury in the Ashcroft case.
 
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