Looks like Alberto Gonzales, our embarrassing excuse for an attorney general, is finally taking the hints -- OK, demands from Democratic and Republican legislators alike -- and beating a path out the back door. Good riddance.The New York Times is reporting that Gonzales called President Bush, his old pal from Texas, on Friday to tell the Decider that he was done. This comes not long after Karl Rove, the deputy chief of staff and architect of Bush's political strategy, announced that he is leaving at the end of this month. That leaves the sneering, Vader-like Dick Cheney as the last of Bush's high-ranking inner circle, and it'd take an act of impeachment -- or the concentrated power of the Force -- to unseat the Evil One.
Gonzales had no supporters left on Capitol Hill after repeatedly lying in testimony before Congressional committees on both his role in the illegal wiretapping program and in the firing of nine US attorneys for political reasons. He also paved the way for American violations of the Geneva Conventions when, as chief White House counsel, he opined that torturing detainees sounded like a good -- and legal -- idea. Seriously, did he get his law degree via mail order?
My guess as to Bush's appointment to fill the AG's spot: crazed gun advocate and right-wing rocker Ted Nugent.
2 comments:
Hopefully, with the Dem’s in charge in the Senate we won’t have to deal with a Ted Nugent like character. We will not get the Justice Department we want, that will take a new administration, and many years, but it will be better than the fascist we have had. This is a scary administration(understatement). They think we are the enemy.
The administration is running out of scapegoats. Hopefully the American public holds the administration and the Republican party accountable for their decisions.
Of course, if Congress actually used the power provided to it under the Constitution, then perhaps we wouldn't be in the multiple messes we're in right now.
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