By:
Jamie on Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 5:16 AM - PDT
The New York Times has the details:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for his resignation, submitted his to President Bush by telephone on Friday, the official said. His decision was not immediately announced, the official added, until after the president invited him and his wife to lunch at his ranch near here.
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Who’s he again? I don’t recall….
wewt! just 2 more impeachments and we may save democracy!
AndrewK @ 1:
OH yah.. that refreshed my memory
Pussy! Taking the cowards way out.
Can he still be subpoenaed???
Hasta la byebye baby!
Alberto Gonzales has resigned. I am going to scream it again! NO RESIGNATION IN LIEU OF JUSTICE! This good ol’ boys club mentality has got to stop within our government! This man took a position of public trust, broke our laws and tried to trash our constitution! Congress better impeach in absentia or indict this scumbag!
SonOfLiberty @ 2:
impeachment = noodly-legged and half-assed threats from Congress to possibly begin a counsel to strongly suggest the idea of impeachment.
AndrewK @ 1:
HAHAHAHA. Nice!
Gonzo better see if he has amnesia or alzheismers
If this is an accurate report, I wanna know two things:
1) What’s the ‘real’ reason (it’s not that he wants to spend more time with family, duh)? Has something come up where Fredo’s found out he can’t hide something criminal anymore?
2) Where does the conga line start?
Can you say “recess appt.”?
I can imagine the start of that conversation:
gonzo “So nice of you to invite us over sir. What was it you wanted to talk about?”
shrub “uh well gonzo you’ve done a heck of a job”
gonzo .oO(uh oh)
We can celebrate all we want but that changes nothing. Everything that’s been going on in this country will continue to happen with or without Gonzo.
Gonzo ===> Jail!
Buh-by
About time! =)
I suppose his replacement will have to take a Bush loyalty test before being allowed to drink from the cabinet Kool-Aid.
whoopeedo…hang on this is irrelevant, whomever Bush brings in to replace him will be as, if not more, crooked than Gonzo.The Bush admin has a whole line of twats waiting to come in to replace any present serving twat who finds himself in a big pile of hubris pie.
Supposedly his replacement will be Chertoff.
Pretty sick huh?
The media is floating Chertoff as the replacement. What god damn travesty that will be.
Not good enough. He needs to go to jail for a long, long time. But we will probably see Bush give him the Medal of Freedom.
So when does he recieve his medal of honor thingie?
Are they sure he remembered to hand in his resignation?
Skeletor? Defender of Justice? Sounds even worse… OK, too close to call.
Anyone wanna bet that this is going to be another example of failing upward? Considering Gonzo’s closeness with Dear Leader, I’m half expecting him to take Karl Rove’s place.
Chertoff. What’s the difference. Nothing will change.
Chimp’s “heck of a job” curse strikes again.
Retired Navy, our minds were on the same wave. :)
He better not get off this easy. Just because you quit your job doesn’t absolve you from a crime you committed while you worked there. Now who’s going to cover bush’s legal ass?
They should make gonzo talk and talk a lot.
so what medal does he get for a going away present?
steambomb @ 19:
He’d be perfect. Who needs laws and constitution and government over sight when you have the awesome power of… a gut feeling!
Rove,Gonzales,the list grows,but what sets the blood on fire is that these guys are resigning at their own pace and not because theyve got criminal charges outstanding or a functioning Congress on their backs in any serious meaningful way in terms of filing criminal charges or at the very least impeaching and prosecuting them for the horror show theyve inflicted on America, its constitution,rule of law and the world by proxy by setting the WORST example in history of what America is supposed to be about.Failure to call these people to book will send a terrible message to the world that America doesnt care for justice or accountability and worse still it will render what you have stood for over centuries to become redundant in the eyes of other democracies.
If there are no charges against him, is he free to leave the country?
hmmm… their timing is off - don’t they release news like this on a friday before a holiday?
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
Dim Son-of-a-Bush sure can say Recess Appointment so the congress better call of the rest of their vacation TODAY!!!
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
Quick! Get the sharpened stakes - lets make sure! Or maybe just the sunlight will work. Come to think of it, it already has.
I smell cooking goose.
Thank you Sen Leahy and Rep Conyers.
one more rat off the ss repub
Nixon’s AG, Mitchel, went to prison for contempt. So should Gonzo.
In my opinion chertoff is just too damned stupid to hold that position. I fear someone worse than Gonzo. Maybe someone with the ability to do what Gonzo did and with a memory to boot.
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
Congress better cut their vacation short.
Flashback:
GAO Katrina report faults Chertoff, White House
http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....29671.html
Is this who Bush will choose to replace him? And if so will the Govt’s finding of his culpability in the Katrina failure come up in his confirmation hearing?
Chertoff will never be confirmed. Matter of fact, it is a good bet that the AG will have “acting” preceding his title till ‘09.
The timing on this is bizarre. A recess appt. is probably the reason. Egads, what next?
to be replace by Gutboy?!! the corruption is incestuous .
Ha, I’m watching this on MSNBC and Scarborough is saying this is not a “scandal” because “scandals implies a law has been broken.” Then he’s talking about Clinton. What fuckin clown. (paraphrasing Maher) To a republican, its not perjury unless it involves a blowjob.
Fuck AG. I hope they subpoena him and he’s imprisoned.
Bush needs a new AG. Alert alert! Round up the usual suspects. Oh Cherty!
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Doesn’t take much in the way of brains to say that the DOJ has decided BushCo can do whatever they want. That’s what the DOJ is about anyway…. surely not working as the People’s attny. :( God forbid the DOJ dish out real justice to those who truly deserve it.
Awful lot of rats leaving the sinking ship.
Reid and Bush supposedly blocked any more Bush recess appts.
Reid’s plan to block Bush’s recess appointments.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/.....ointments/
Dems Work to Foil White House Recess Ploys
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003913.php
Wow, there must be something especially stinky out there for them to allow this to happen on a Monday morning. What could Gonzo possibly be sitting on to force this?
like rats leaving a sinking ship, eh?
PS: shouldn’t that be “Gonzo is Gone-zo?”
I think that we should contact Reid and our individual Senators to bring the Senate back into session IMMEDIATELY to deal with the urgency of providing advise and consent to the Bush.
We wouldn’t want a national emergency (cough, cough) to force this administration to make a recess appointment since there are SOOO many good people to choose from. Harriet Miers, John Yoo, Michael Chertoff, the mind boggles.
Hey, didn’t bush cut a deal with the dems that he would make no recess appts during this break? Is he gonna go back on his word? What a surprise it would be if he did. Not!
I hope Harry Reid has some plans here and fast.
Is there anyone left in the DOJ now? Seems most of them quit not so long ago.
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
No sh*t. I hear John Bolton’s available.
pissed off patricia @ 26:
You can’t talk if you can’t recall. Hmmm, I wonder what would jar his memory?
Who needs another attorney general? Most of our laws are gone.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Me too. Chertoff is a monumental fuck up already. Chertoff should have resigned or been fired after Katrina.
This is unbelievable.
I just had the worst thought.
What if Gonzales ‘resigns’…but doesn’t actually? And when asked about his resignation, tells everyone ‘I don’t recall that’?
Maybe a warrant would spark a few thoughts
Like Rove, he may want to spend some time with his family…..before he goes to prison. I want to see Bush nominate Chertoff, so the confirmation hearings will rehash Katrina again. I always thought he was more guilty than Bush or Brownie.
What’s going on here? Rove leaves, Gonzalez leaves, and who is next? What’s the plan behind all this? Will there be a recession appointment?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Bush replaced him with Lionel Hutz.
Fredo isn’t gone until the perp walk or the pardon.
pissed off patricia @ 55:
Read my #30.
So what if Reid & Bush cut a deal. Pffft!