Gone--Gone--Gonzales?
AG Alberto Gonzales is just collateral. If the Republicans think that if they put someone else in, this scandal will go away .. they got another think coming. It decidedly won't go away with Gonzales.
As we dig deeper we will find proof that the White House was using the Justice Department as an arm of the Republican Party .. that they were trying to persecute Democrats and protect Republicans .. that the administration attempted -- and in some cases successfully used -- federal prosecutorial power for political ends. That's what's at the heart of all this.
Simple as that.
"(CBS/AP) One of the eight recently fired U.S. attorneys at the center of a growing political scandal tells CBS News that he lost his job because he "did not play ball" with powerful Republicans.
.....The fallout from the firings continues to grow in Washington, and sources tell CBS News that it looks like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will take the fall.
Republicans close to the White House tell CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod that President Bush is in "his usual posture: pugnacious, that no one is going to tell him who to fire." But sources also said Gonzales' firing is just a matter of time. [..]"
You mean the President can't fire US Attys for going after corrupt Republicans like Duke Cunningham?
What IS this country coming to?
Bush&Co should be relieved that they're only being hounded for politicizing the judiciary .. which is a big improvement from last month's treasonous exposing of a CIA covert operation and thus assisting the 'terrists.'
It amuses me that the best defense the Righties have come up with is that Clinton fired Prosecutors too .. so what they're really saying is that Bush is as bad as they say Clinton was. That's really gotta suck.
Ah, but Clinton didn't have that sneaky little provision the Bushies put in the Patriot Act .. allowing them to bypass Senate confirmation hearings for US Attys replacements.
Doesn't ANYONE care about the side-stepping of the Senate Confirmation of these US Attys?
Anyway .. Bush already gave Gonzales the kiss of death when he said he has "confidence" in him .. same thing he said about Brownie and Rummy right before they got the boot.
He'll probably decide Harriet Miers is the most qualified person to replace him.
Gonzalez will go down in history as the Attorney General who rationalized and attempted to legalize official torture .. calling sections of the Geneva Convention "quaint" .. setting our country and our culture back .. how many centuries?
