GONZALES RESIGNS!

Published on August 27th, 2007

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.

Earlier this month, at a news conference, Mr. Bush dismissed accusations that Mr. Gonzales had had stonewalled or misled a congressional inquiry. “We’re watching a political exercise,” Mr. Bush said. “I mean, this is a man who has testified, he’s sent thousands of papers up there. There’s no proof of wrong.”

As recently as Sunday afternoon, Mr. Gonzales was denying through his press spokesman, Brian Roehrkass, that he intended to leave.

Maybe he didn’t remember he gave Bush his resignation – on Friday?

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# 1 Dauragon88 said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:08 am

HALLE-MOTHERFUCKING-LUJAH!!!!

# 2 Joe said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:21 am

Cheney’s next, hopefully.

# 3 Ian said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:21 am

“We’re watching a political exercise,”

Is that another bushism?

Did he mean

“We’re watching a political execution” ?
OR
“We’re watching a political exorcism”

I’m going to guess as a non religious Brit, that he meant the 2nd

# 4 Tanqueray said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:23 am

Yay finally another nail on the bush administration coffin.

# 5 grog said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:28 am

what’s so great about the man resigning? just like with karl rove, bertie’s resignation guarantees that no one will be brought to justice over bushco’s shady dealings.

i can already hear bush’s apologist’s calling any attempt to get gonzoles or rove to come clean on the bush camp’s attempt to politicize the justice department “old news” and/or “sour grapes”

so there’s no victory here, just the rats abandoning the lame duck ship

# 6 MikeN said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:28 am

Any chance Ashcroft will come back?

# 7 MikeN said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:29 am

Does this mean media liberals will stop trying to invent perjury charges against him?

# 8 RTaylor said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:32 am

Rats leaving a sinking ship? Who the Hell would want to go through a Senate confirmation hearing for a year term?

# 9 Chad said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:37 am

HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!

#8 No kidding the rats are leaving the ship…
#7 Don’t worry, I’m sure a full pardon is on the way December 2008 for Gonzales and Rove anyways.

Maybe Harriet Myers is will finally get that political rain check cashed in?

I’m sure she’s willing to break the law however they want her to by now.

# 10 Thug said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:42 am

Fucking liberals.

# 11 grog said, on August 27th, 2007 at 5:51 am

#7 you comment is so predictable, in fact i predicted something remarkably similar in #5! your comment was right on cue!

# 12 Greg Allen said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:08 am

“Gonzales Shacked, Stripped and Waterboarded”

wouldn’t even be justice.

This weasel typifies the arrogance, corruption, immorality and obsessive secrecy of this administration but he’s only one small part and his leaving will not change a thing. We need to cut out the whole rotten bunch before they ruin the whole country.

# 13 Awake said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:15 am

Is there anyone in the Executive branch that is a positive entity to that branch of the government?

Here we have a man that was essentially the ‘consiglieri’ to the ‘Capo de tuti Capo’, becoming what is essentially the chief of police, being made responsible for supervising anti-mafia activities… while his boss is the Mafia head.

Now it’s up to the congress to find a person that can fulfill the Attorney General position with some kind of honor, which Alberto Gonzales certainly does not have. Although they do not nominate, they certainly should reject until someone of honor and independence can be put in that position… even if it takes until the seating of a new president.

Name ONE person in the current executive branch that has turned out to be a positive force for the American people. Nobody! Not a single person has put the interests of America ahead of the interests of “the family” or the political party.

Every member of the Bush administration has turned out to be a “turd blossom”, with poison ivy being what blossoms out of those turds.

# 14 Rabble Rouser said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:19 am

Rumor has it that he’s resigning “to spend more time with his family.”

# 15 Dallas said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:23 am

And we thought the Iraqi government is a mess.

Britain ! We need you !! We need you and an international coalition of free nations to restore our democracy and civil liberties.

# 16 Sounds The Alarm said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:27 am

#14 – we’ll do just fine by ourselves, as long as we all vote.

If we don’t bother to vote; to take our political future into our hands; to make the functionaries realize who is really boss, then we don’t deserve to be rescued.

# 17 Nth of the 49th said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:37 am

#14 re: Britain ! We need you !!

???? What you don’t have enough government surveillance already?

You need more cameras watching your every move?

# 18 Cinaedh said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:42 am

On Saturday night, Gonzales was contacted by his press spokesman to ask how the department should respond to inquiries from reporters about rumors of his resignation, and Gonzales told the spokesman to deny the reports.

White House spokesmen also insisted on Sunday that they did not believe that Mr. Gonzales was planning to resign.

Bald faced liars to the bitter end!

# 19 Mr. Fusion said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:47 am

It is too late for Gonzales to resign. Once he becomes charged with contempt of Congress, he can kiss his law license goodbye. Just because he has resigned is no reason Congress should not push for his indictment.

His one possible saving act would be to appear before Congress, apologize for lying, come clean, and tell the truth. Of course he wouldn’t be offered any plum Republican jobs after that but without his license he couldn’t be employed by any pricey law firms anyway.

It will also be expected Bush will pardon him for any crimes if any US Attorney tries to investigate let alone press ahead with a indictment.

# 20 Higghawker said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:50 am

What I worry about is none of these people are every held accountable which means the next President will inherit all these powers prior Presidents never had or used.

# 21 mark said, on August 27th, 2007 at 7:03 am

I cant think of a better way to start a Monday morning.

# 22 ECA said, on August 27th, 2007 at 7:05 am

When a person is placed in charge of a group, and he CANT ANSWER about the group….WHY is he in charge?

Another one bites the big one…
BUT, we still didnt get any answers from this ASS.

# 23 Tom McMahon said, on August 27th, 2007 at 7:08 am

Gonzales Quits, Bush Appoints Rove Attorney General

# 24 Obvious1 said, on August 27th, 2007 at 7:27 am

Has Gonzales really resigned, or is he lying about that too?

# 25 grog said, on August 27th, 2007 at 7:32 am

#23 it isn’t lying if you forget everything!
“no sir, i do not recall writing that letter of resignation”

# 26 MikeN said, on August 27th, 2007 at 7:54 am

Wow, contempt of Congress. Only he didn’t lie about anything, so they can forget about the perjury charges. How he loses his law license is beyond me.

# 27 Mister Mustard said, on August 27th, 2007 at 8:39 am

>>How he loses his law license is beyond me.

How about “gross incompetence”? Does that work for ya?

# 28 Cinaedh said, on August 27th, 2007 at 8:39 am

“How he loses his law license is beyond me.”

You’re right, he should keep his law license.

He acted in exactly the manner most people would expect a lawyer to act and he followed all the lawyer rules invented by lawyers for lawyers.

# 29 Angel H. Wong said, on August 27th, 2007 at 8:41 am

#16

I think he wants a nation that doesn’t give a damn wether you have good teeth or not.

# 30 bobbo said, on August 27th, 2007 at 9:40 am

Every perjury case proceeds thusly:

Q–Tell us what happened re X.
A–Blah, Blah.

Perjury holds when the Answer is not believed. This can of course include “I don’t remember.” Just like scooter boy and any other lying sack of shit who has just figured out how to make the perjury charge 10% harder to stick. Thats all.

# 31 James Hill said, on August 27th, 2007 at 9:47 am

You liberals sure do get worked up over this stuff. When the right wins in ‘08, will you finally move to Canada?

# 32 MikeN said, on August 27th, 2007 at 10:01 am

Wow, bobbo, the right could have used you when Clinton was being impeached for perjury. They could have thrown out the whole executive branch by that standard.

# 33 grog said, on August 27th, 2007 at 10:34 am

bobbo, james hill and miken — i’m not worked up at all thank you very much, i just think that a man who’s responsible for the entire justice department who then goes before his oversight committee and claims to forget everything is either completely inept or a liar — either way he doesn’t deserve to run so valuable a government asset

that’s all.

# 34 Mr. Fusion said, on August 27th, 2007 at 10:57 am

#25, Mike,

Wow, contempt of Congress. Only he didn’t lie about anything, so they can forget about the perjury charges. How he loses his law license is beyond me.

Aahhh, Mikey, Mikey, Mikey, how could anyone expect less from you.

He refused to turn over documents subpoenaed by Congress.

He lied to Congress when he said the “Ashcroft hospital visit” involved a different matter than everyone else said it did.

He lied to Congress when he said he had no knowledge of the US Attorneys firing and replacement when several other DoJ people all said he did.

Then there is the matter of the warrant less wiretaps. His being a party to a crime is sufficient to lose his license. And it won’t matter if Bush pardons him or not, just committing the crime is enough. In fact, if he accepts the pardon, that is admitting the guilt.

Will that do it for you? I’m quite sure there are several other grounds that could be cited as well. In case you don’t understand it, lawyers are expected to uphold a very high standard before the courts. That includes not misleading, lying, falsifying documents, interfering or obstructing the court’s business, etc. For all intents and purposes, a Congressional Committee has all the rights, privileges, and accounting as a court.

Ya wanna rethink Rush Limbaugh’s spiel?

# 35 Rabble Rouser said, on August 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Gee, the Cons sure get bothered about all this… Do you think they’ll move to another planet when Clinton wins in ‘08? Or will they go crawl back under the rock they came up from?

# 36 MikeN said, on August 27th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

Grog, I’ll grant you he’s inept, and shouldn’t be attorney general. What bothers me is that it seems every attorney general in a Republican administration gets attacked.

# 37 MikeN said, on August 27th, 2007 at 12:15 pm

I’ll grant you he refused to turn over subpoenaed docs, but as for the lies, that’s just not the case. Even the New York Times conceded the point on the meeting with Ashcroft.

# 38 grog said, on August 27th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

#36 MikeN — it seems every attorney general in a Republican administration gets attacked
i would point out that reno got roasted plenty by a republican congress back in the day, but that’s not the point

the bush administration brought their current siege upon themselves – they came to town and started ramming their objectives down everyone’s throat, continually sought to circumvent and belittle the congress, pushed to pack the court and politicize the justice department, and basically told anyone in congress who spoke up to fuck off what did they expect would happen?

their attempt a bloodless coup failed , and now they’re stuck in a quagmire, (just like iraq) and it turns out the congressional branch of our government simply won’t be cowed that easily

# 39 MikeN said, on August 27th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Grog, that Congress just expanded the NSA surveillance authority.
Reno got roasted plenty too, so maybe it is bipartisan. Can’t be sure until we get some more Dem AGs. But Ashcroft was branded a fascist before 9/11, and all the Republicans get tagged as such.

# 40 ECA said, on August 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

This is like haveing a MOVING target that has its own body guard…
Every time we AIM at Bush, someone JUMPS into the way, and takes a bullet(wishful hoping).

“The BUCK stops here”, is NOT in this presidents Vocabulary(c student, not much there anyway). Every time we shoot a broadside at him, its like Someone rushes OUT in a Dingy, and catches the ball. Someone he put into the JOB… He gets fired or QUITS, and we try again.

We arnt getting the truth behind these people. And SOMETHINg has to be going on in the background….

# 41 moss said, on August 27th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

Times like this I get tempted to do a little video hacking. You know, take Gonzales’ farewell speech – then, slowly, diminish his dialogue on one channel – and spot another track, like, on some Marines in the background and have them start humming the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

You could bring it to a crescendo just like Mickey Rooney remembering John Wayne in WW2 agitprop.

Bring a tear to MikeN’s eye.

# 42 GregA said, on August 27th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

MikeN,

The problem with your theory is that they were branded fascists before the took office because they did fascist things before they took the office. It isn’t like Ashcroft showed up out of nowhere without a record.

In fact the reason why people like you like Ashcroft, Bush and Gonzales is because they are fascists.

That makes you a fascists as well BTW. You just don’t like the history that suggests that fascists regimes tend to implode and kill a bunch of people in the process. Basically exactly as has happened to Bush.

But go ahead, keep on believe that your fundamentally flawed theory of government can somehow be made to work, and ignore that a very basic premise of fascism is dismantling the central government and handing it over to private entities. Fascism doesn’t work because it is designed not to work.

Maybe I can put it in terms using code words you will understand…

You might complain that Feminism has destroyed the family structure. That is because Feminism HAS destroyed the family structure. However it isn’t a failing of feminism, that is what feminism was designed to do, so that women were not oppressed into one codified way to live their life.

Another way to look at it from your stilted viewpoint. Back in the 90’s conservatives complained ALL THE FING time that the military was for killing people and blowing things up. Now look at Iraq. Mission Accomplished! Can we stop killing people and blowing things up now?

# 43 tallwookie said, on August 27th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

ya know – when I heard this while driving into work this morning, I wondered what kinda crazy shit you guys would have to say about it – thanks for making it enjoyable

I think its like fleas hopping off of a dying dog – more and more as time goes by….

btw, my commute back took 30 min extra cuz Seattle closed 405N so the president didnt have to deal with traffic – lucky bastard

# 44 doug said, on August 27th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Gonzo was forced to resign because he was on the verge of exposing a vast ring of Republican preverts. Mark Foley was just the tip of the iceberg:

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/19763-1.html

# 45 tikiloungelizard said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya, Al. Yet another Bush crony hired for his loyalty and not his competency. The only competent people in the Bush administration are/were Cheney and Rove, and I only say that because they have been so competent at being evil.

# 46 nightstar said, on August 27th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

All this means is that bush will have to go shopping for a new poodle.

# 47 MikeN said, on August 28th, 2007 at 4:58 am

Wow, GregA, thanks for the wonderful definition of fascism. Proves my theory that like right-wing, fascism stands for whatever liberals don’t like.
I think the traditional definition involves nationalism and everyone serving the state. Also, it involves a confluence of big labor, big government, and big business.

# 48 art said, on August 28th, 2007 at 5:25 am

I guess, Bush is finally cracking down on those immigrants …

# 49 Li said, on August 28th, 2007 at 9:47 am

Naysaying aside, this is a good thing, because it removes a major impediment to real oversight, and forces hearings in order to approve a new attorney general. That is, if the Democrats have the spine to take advantage of this event, which they have shown little sign of so far. So sad that one of our two parties has lost its mind, and the other has lost its will.

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