Talk about making a fast getaway:
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Gonzo: I’ve made a point as AG to personally meet as many of them as possible.
But can he remember….Oh, never mind…And Cornyn is a major league hack..On CNN he was crying for Gonzo. Poor Alberto, he was never proved to have been a bad little Bushie. He just didn’t have enough experience to get through a hearing…or something to that effect.
And the unchallenged notion that hacks like Cornyn are putting forward — that it was never “proven” that Gonzales did anything wrong — just defy credulity. Gonzales lied outright before Congress, and his story was contradicted by Pelosi, Daschle, Harman and Rockefeller. The revisionist history involved here is pretty gobsmacking.
UPDATE: Here’s Cornyn via CNN. No video neccessary:
SEN. JOHN CORNYN, (R) TEXAS: Well, I think it’s a sad day and it’s a commentary — a sad commentary on the hyper-partisan atmosphere in Washington, D.C. where a good man and somebody who’s the highest level Hispanic who’s ever served in government resigned for basically unproven charges of politicization of the Justice Department. There’s absolutely no evidence after all of the hearings that we’ve had that any U.S. attorney was terminated in an effort to interfere with a prosecution or an investigation. (full transcript below the fold)
And I think ultimately it was the drip, drip, drip that caused him to — finally wore him down. And I think this is perhaps a day when Senator Schumer, head of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee, is exulting. But I think it’s a sad day for the country.
KEILAR: Now you said about a week ago in the “Austin American Statesman” that you thought that when — if the correct conclusion was reached that Al were to leave, there would be even more chaos when a new successor attorney general would be nominated. And that nominee would be a political football during the confirmation process and in the end the clock would probably run out for Bush’s term. Now that this hypothetical has become a reality, what do you think about — is that exactly what you’re predicting?
CORNYN: That’s exactly what I’m predicting. This Congress has sunk to one of the lowest approval ratings in recent American history. And I think the reason is because people feel like it’s not working. It’s become too partisan. Too much focus on the next election and not enough focus on getting the job done for the American people. And I think this hounding of Al Gonzales from office is symptomatic of that underlying, chronic problem. And so I do think this is not going to bring peace. This will bring more chaos.
KEILAR: SO let’s talk about that because some people have predicted that if the number one name that’s being floated for his replacement, Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, that while he’s been in the trenches, he also is a very controversial figure. How do you think that would go from your viewpoint there in Congress?
CORNYN: I like Michael Chertoff and I think he’s done a good job at the positions he has served in, in the past. Frankly, I don’t know why he would want it. Sixteen months of being used — we’ve used the analogy of a political football. You can think of the tumultuous confirmation process, how the new majority, the Democratic majority, Senator Schumer and others, will use this as a way to continue to try to bash the Bush administration. And I think it’s not going to lead to the kind of peace that some have predicted. It’s going to lead to more controversy, more partisan posturing, and I think that’s a bad thing.
KEILAR: So you’ve talked about the political nature, pointing a finger at the Democrats, and then some critics have also said — but some critics have said that Alberto Gonzales never really was the people’s lawyer. That really he was President Bush’s lawyer. Do those people have an accurate point?
CORNYN: Well, I’ve known Al Gonzales for a long time and he’s a good man. I think he was thrust into a very difficult job in a time in our history when politics seemed to reign supreme and not enough people are thinking about what’s in the long-term best interests of our country. That’s just my opinion.
And I think he found it to be a very difficult environment in which to get his sea legs. I think if he had had a chance to stay on perhaps in a environment that was less partisan, less political, that he would have been able to adjust to the job better. But clearly trying to deal with this environment — the political nature of the hearings, the accusations without foundation with regard to the reasons for terminating U.S. attorneys, all of that I think was a little bit disorienting for him, as it probably would be for most people. And that’s why I think this is not a high water mark for the Congress or for Washington, D.C.
KEILAR: All right, Senator Cornyn, thanks so much for making time to speak with us. We appreciate it.
CORNYN: Thank you very much.
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No Fristing!
Good bye and good riddance to this vile, hypocritical scum. Your legacy will be to be remembered as the worst AG ever. Nice job, Speedy.
If someone robs a bank, and is never apprehended, then they did nothing wrong, right?
I am very sorry that Alberto Gonzales is from Texas.
Gee, and Bush is expected to recess appoint Chertoff. Didn’t Bush strike a deal with Congress for NO recess appointments this month?? Hmmmm, me thinks the timing of this “sudden and shocking resignation” stinks of suspicion!
“Why are you leaving?………………..”
“I dunno”
He’s leaving before the Dems grow a set of balls and actually do something.
I think he mis-spoke. He must have meant pubic (not public) service.
Don’t let the door hit ya!
d @ 6:
I don’t recall.
So another crook gets away without so much as a slap on the wrist. Yipee!
When does he get his Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Did he forget his speech?
It’s abscess appointment time!
not sure… but why does this news seem so anti-climatic?
anyone?
Weaseldog @ 4:
I’m not. It’s quite fitting.
“it was an honor for the opportunity to lead the DoJ”……….
His ‘honor’ turned into a dishonor to the country. There no leadership involved. He merely occupied the position and twisted the rule of law for his bosses Cheney and Bush. So can his ass still be nailed to the nearest wall?
If all these crooks get blanket pardons by the head crook (Bush0 I hope the next democratic President sends the lot of them to the Hague.
david @ 15:
Are you suggesting we light up now?
Even the FBI director Mueller definently contradicted him…and his “memory”….unfair treatment???
In the 1980s an EPA administrator Rita Lavalley LIED TO CONGRESS and she went to Prison, for Lying to Congress….
Republicans and the “Red Ruby Slippers” defense.
If they close their eyes, click their heels three times and say “There’s no crime that took place, there’s no crime that took place” then it was all just a bad dream.
Dr. Matt @ 16:
I’m not.
I’ll be very sorry if he returns.
wow..even his hairline leans to the right.
Somebody should put a tube of Preparation H on Cornyn’s head a see what happens ..
ChicagoJoe @ 5:
Abu is staying on until 10/17. Can GW make a recess appointment in advance of his departure?
ysbaddaden @ 14:
ys, no recess appointment. gonzo’s departure date is September 17. Congress will be back in session by then. That is why dumya appointed Paul Clement to serve as interim AG. But you can bet your boots, there is some conniving going on behind the scenes. We shall be seeing another shyster so-called lawyer, when the time comes. That’s the only kind these people know.
these guys are running scared…they won’t even stick around to answer a few questions…the big one is almost here
Everything is suspicious about this administration.
You can believe his resignation is about something else other
than what the people have been demanding.
No trust here for the prick and his boss…
It’s not me, the congress was really mean and they made me cry, they hurt my feelings.
Sorry, make that 9/17 instead of 10/17.
does resigning mean you don’t face charges? seems all these eople who fae criminal charges just resign and story closed.
“Did nothing wrong?” Sorry, but with the Administration as a whole ‘accidentally’ losing key e-mails; and the clown car act as to who, exactly, made the decision to fire the attorneys, I’m having trouble seeing Alberto as the One Innocent Man Amongst Thieves. But I think that’s going to be the GOP line, just like ‘the SEC says there was no case’ became Bush’s mantra during the 2000 Election.
He’s such a cut-and-runner(tm).
david @ 15:
Because, again, the Dems have not balls/guts. Just like with Rove: we wanted to see Al marched away in chains. All we got is him and the president giving that nice speech about how he served his country, blah blah.
We wanted blood and all we got pat on the back.
“regrets, I’ve had a few, . . . . “
Bush’s ability to promote minorities to positions of authority only to have them discarded as damaged goods with reputations in tatters is uncanny. Collin Powell went into office as a potential Presidential candidate, someday, to a disgraced man who went against his own rule about wars without an exit policy and did a dog and pony show for the world to make a false case for war.
While Berto didn’t have the chops Collin, did his exit is even more disgraceful.
Diogenes @ 26:
Geez you can’t make a gross joke now and then on this site.
http://www.google.com/search?s.....%3aAbscess
“Public service is honorable.” True, but too bad you never did us a public service. Until today. Thank you for that.
When does he get his Presidential Medal of Freedom?
:) :) :)
“One of the best attorneys in the country”. - GWB 8/27/07
Does it really take that long to transfer all of his Haliburton money to Swiss bank accounts and to get the visa to a country without an extradition treaty?
Alberto Flop Sweat Gonzales is going to spend more time with the Manson Family.
-GSD
The problem with many first’s is that they don’t distinguish themselves and they didn’t get to be the “First” based on merit. It would have been nice if the first “Latino Attorney General” wasn’t incompetent, dishonest and was actually qualified for the job. Gonzo didn’t accomplish anything on his own. He was appointed to every single significant job on his resume by George W. Bush. I can’t see the Latino community pointing to Alberto Gonzales with any pride at all.
I suppose now the taxpayers must pay gonzo a pension for his months of hard lying.
ysbaddaden @ 37:
Gonzo was definitely one of the good ‘ol boils.
ysbaddaden @ 37:
‘UPDATE: Here’s Cornyn via CNN. No video neccessary: “
I want to see video
The Neo-Cons will not be able to recall this day nor Al Gonzo name in a couple of weeks. The only thing they remember vividly is President Bill Clintons 8 years in office.
“Who’s Next” meet the new AG same as the old AG. JCB
Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! But I regret he never got impeached. And I am sorry Gonzo and Cornyn are from Texas.
Krab…krab (drool).
Oh, a young neophyte thrust into a nasty political environment! That’s a laugh. Gonzo has been covering up for Bushie since Texas days, getting him off jury duty so Bushie wouldn’t have to admit to a DUI citation. Then he covered Bushie’s ass as White House counsel, vis a vis illegal spying, extraordinary rendition, etc. The poor little Hispanic who never got a chance to do his thing because of all those mean Democrats out there! What palpable bullshit that is.
Of course, if Cornyn’s characterization were accurate, then Bush is guilty of appointing someone Attorney General who wasn’t capable to begin with. Nobody’s fooled, Cornyn.