Gosh, I can’t recall if anyone could have predicted this…
NYTimes (reg. req’d.)
Alberto R. Gonzales, like many others recently unemployed, has discovered how difficult it can be to find a new job. Mr. Gonzales, the former attorney general, who was forced to resign last year, has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster, Washington lawyers and his associates said in recent interviews.
He has, through friends, put out inquiries, they said, and has not found any takers. What makes Mr. Gonzales’s case extraordinary is that former attorneys general, the government’s chief lawyer, are typically highly sought.
A longtime loyalist to George W. Bush dating to their years together in Texas, Mr. Gonzales was once widely viewed as a strong candidate to be the first Hispanic-American nominated one day to the Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he carried an impressive personal story as the child of poor Mexican immigrants.
Despite those credentials, he left office last August with a frayed reputation over his role in the dismissal of several federal prosecutors and the truthfulness of his testimony about a secret eavesdropping program. He has had no full-time job since his resignation, and his principal income has come from giving a handful of talks at colleges and before private business groups.
“Maybe the passage of time will provide some opportunity for him,” said one Washington lawyer who was aware of an inquiry to his firm from a Gonzales associate. “I wouldn’t say ‘rebuffed,’ ” said the lawyer, who asked his name not be used because the situation being described was uncomfortable for Mr. Gonzales. “I would say ‘not taken up.’”
Well, unless he is collecting unemployment, I don’t think he needs to worry about skewing his buddy’s unemployment figures…
Nice to see karma biting him on the ass, though, isn’t it?
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I thought for a second he was Derek Jeter’s new backup at shortstop!
How about cleaning the latrines while he’s serving a life sentence in prison for ignoring the Constitution and fundamental rules of law?
Who but a lobbyist would hire a lying, unqualified, real estate lawyer. He performed as a complete incompetent and did not represent the people of the United States and uphold the Constitution. Instead he played bottom to Bushies Top Gun. Yeah, i want him on my team.
“I have an idea. You hire me as an ‘outside consultant’ and my job will be never to tell people these things that I know. I don’t even need to come in for this job. I can do it from home.”
-Narrator, ‘Fight Club’
I won’t be satisfied until he has lost his money, home, and personal property. That goes for the rest of the ‘Administration that never was’.
Don`t fret this one. This guy knows way to much for his own good. If I were him I wouldn`t be taking any late night dips in the pool.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen, and he won’t be the only one. You do the president’s bidding and you believe you are above the law. Then the clock strikes midnight, and you either can’t find a job (tainted
as a war criminal) or you are indicted.
I’m sure the criminal justice system can find a spot for him. Kind of small but he’ll be traveling light anyway. All you really need is three hots and a cot right?
As long as he doesn’t start making Gonzo movies.
Just as the Powells, pere et fils, were quickly discarded by the neocon hierarchy as soon as they were no longer useful idiots, so another dusky stooge wakes up on the slag heap, Was there ever any doubt?
All I’m saying is that if Dick Cheney takes him fishing, it won’t be a naked women we see reflected in his glasses.
Watch your back, Fredo.
Let the War Crimes Tribunals begin.
They should be able to find a place for Gonzo.
noen @ 8:
Try one cold every other day and a bucket in “beautiful, sunny” Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Don’t worry, he’ll probably be hired on by FoxNuze as their “legal expert” after January so he could talk about how he used to run the DoJ differently.
Is it possible that Gonzalez is the only criminal in the Bush administration without a golden “wingnut welfare” parachute? Jeez, is this guy dumb.
Why should he need a job? Don’t ya think he got some of that NINE BILLION DOLLARS IN CASH that W’s war-profits-cartel “lost” in Baghdad?
I’m pretty sure his drought is merit based, not karma-based.
dam right whos going to hire an asshole thats got such a bad memmory disk in his cabisas!
This is really embarassing, since usually law firms and lobbying groups will fall all over themselves to try and land a former AG (if nothing else so they can brag, “We’ve got a former ATTORNEY GENERAL on staff”). But this is Gonzo we’re talking about, arguably the worst AG in recent memory, if not of all time, so one can understand why he’s not getting showered with job offers. The only reason I could think of anyone hiring him is to curry favor with the Bush administration, but why would anyone bother when it’ll be over in nine months? (And it’s not like Obama or even McCain would exactly welcome Gonzo with open arms.)
On the plus side, he is able to spend more time with his family.
It’s hard to get the smell of Bush’s asshole off your mustache, and your resumé… It’s harder still to get the shit stains off your nose.
If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything. Unless you fall for anything before you stand for something…
Perhaps his old boss could give him some training in order to get a position commensurate with his qualifications. I’m thinking “Roadside Vegetation Control Technician”. That’s an actual job classification where I’m from.
Why isn’t this guy in jail yet?
No one wants to hire Gonzo. Why?
Because he’s a crappy lawyer.
D.C. is filled with much better (more clever) lawyers.
Gonzo is just a tool. He served shrub.
He has nothing else to offer.
I read about this yesterday and laughed my ass off! It’s bad enough we can’t charge him with anything because Congress has no balls, but at least I know he is about as popular as the plague.
What, Fox News isn’t hiring?
Abbybwood @ 2:
Like many of the other idiots & crooks working for dumbass Bush, he is qulified for the above mentioned position/sentence. When based on merit & competence, their idiot-in-chief would not be able to find a private sector job either.
No one will touch Gonzo until the Bush Administration is good and gone. He is a liability both legally and for the public image until it is clear he isn’t going to be prosecuted for anything. Yeah and then there is the whole ethics and whatnot of what he did as Attorney General.
E in MD @ 26:
Even at faux snooze the have to recall the talking points. You can’t even be a pundit if you can’t recall the talking points.
This post should be accompanied by The Silhouettes singing their 1957 hit Get A Job, with lyrics such as these:
After breakfast, everyday
She throws the want ads right my way
And never fails to say
Get a job
He’s a Bushie, he’ll survive. All he has to do is continue to give Bush and Cheney good ball-lickings and he’ll get those blood-soaked kickbacks from this Iraq war that’s going so well. I wanna see more than karma biting his ass..try a bite from a black mamba.
NY Times said”He has had no full-time job since his resignation, and his principal income has come from giving a handful of talks at colleges and before private business groups.”
I betcha Bush and his buddies are takin’ care of him under the table (big time)
…fall guys always get taken care of…
If worse comes to worse, maybe once Bush leaves office, Gonzo can get a job as his official brush clearer at Crawford. Unfortunately, if he messes up there, he wouldn’t be able to pass the buck onto subordinates. Maybe Barney.
Gonzo is a mistrial waiting to happen.
gf120581 @ 19:
When your credentials read “Torquemada” it may be less appealling to be a former AG.
I have a job for him. It’s a live-in position, where he builds team-building skills working alongside of a bunch of guys, in a creative position in metal-working (making vehicle identification placards). And for his own protection he will be surrounded by armed personnel.
Nothing on K Street? Isn’t that where Republicans go when they are ousted from government?
How about picking up garbage along interstate highways, dressed in an orange suit?
The f****r needs to pay for the crimes he committed while tearing up our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
I also read that he is getting $30K per speaking engagement and he is pulling in close to $200K a year doing it.
Sooner or later… someone in “That party” is going to need a weasel and he’ll get hired. That is why he needs to be impeached and there is a precedent for it. Congress actually took this action during the civil war and brought back a politician who had resigned to impeach him as a warning to others. If congress does that they can deny him his pension and also prohibit him from ever holding a post in another government job in future administrations.
John Dean at Findlaw wrote about the procedure:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20061215.html
Too much damage to our system of government to allow any of these war criminals to simple go on their merry way. They have to be held accountable for their crimes if we are ever to restore faith in our government and prevent such lawlessness from ever happening again.
I suppose war criminal doesn’t look good on a resume. I am surprised that no think tank has gobbled him up though. Perhaps they’re also having financial problems. One can only hope. Barring that, I wonder if Gonzo has tried JobRUs.com?
What???
No ‘Resident Scholar’ gig at the American Enterprise Institute?
No cushy fellowship at the Cato Institute?
Not one of the well funded conservative think tanks has seen fit to provide their loyal lapdog with a fucking paycheque??
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to take a different view.
I think Gonzo will hold out for a year or so and then feel spurned his lack of success. He’ll feel that he should have been taken care of. By comparison, Cheney is smarter than Bush and he took care of Libby. Bush in a scene from Richard the III will say
“I am not in the giving vein.”
Karma. If Karma were a dog it would rip his lying throat out.
Is this a pattern?
Are Rumsfeld and Powell, for example, also having problems finding malefactors of great wealth to shovel some of it their way? The more it is a consistent pattern, the more that suggests that the smart money is concerned over legal entanglements. The folks interested in their services would be mostly folks doing big bidness with the govt, and those folks would have to be worried that anything nice they do for BushCo people might be construed as the quid of a quid pro quo. If Gonzalez, and other lawyer types who have left the gummint, are seeing more of this reluctance to hire BuchCo alumni, that could be explained by the law firms likely to hire them being more conscious of legal risks than other malefactors of great wealth.
If there is such a pattern, it would mean that the smart money doesn’t accept the conventional wisdom that BushCo will not face significant legal consequences after 1/20/09. Maybe they know something that we don’t. Mens rea, I think the lawyers call it.
Gonzo can’t even get on Wingnut Welfare….
Pathetic.
Glen Tomkins @ 44:
Let’s hope so. I won’t feel right until the cold gaze of Justice has alighted upon Mr. Gonzales and seen fit to put him in the public stocks where he can be spat viciously upon each day.
Wow, you mean he didn’t even qualify for wingnut welfare?? Shit, ya think he would have at least been thrown a few appearances on FOX, filling in for their resident legal “expert” Judge Napolitano. This dude really is radioactive. Sucks to be him.
VJB @ 20:
Considering the track record of republican politicians, I don’t think keeping him around any family is a good idea.
Check out: Republicanoffenders.com
Those guys are sick.
Also, when you get a chance, check out The Authoritarians, by Bob Altemeyer.
It’ll give you a good idea of what a right wing authoritarian is thinking.
It’s not good, let me tell you.
Annoyed Canuck @ 41:
When the GOP throws you under the bus, they REALLY throw you under the bus. In fact, in Gonzo’s case, they not only threw him under the bus, they backed that sucker up and ran over him again.
Oh c’mon Fredo, there’s always personal injury cases out there.
Once a weasel, always a weasel.
dont worry about fredo, his payoff comes when bush leaves office
anyway those “handful” of speaking engagements are paying pretty well…i believe around the range of 40k a pop
but no law firm in their right mind would ever hire him
watch for him to pop up as an analyst on fox
not even Larry H. Parker?