NY Times Editorial: Gonzales v. Gonzales ("...dull-witted apparatchik")

[Hissyspit]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/opinion/20fri1.html?hp

Editorial
Gonzales v. Gonzales

Published: April 20, 2007
If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge. Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch.

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In another telling moment, Mr. Gonzales was asked when he had lost confidence in David Iglesias, who was fired as federal prosecutor in New Mexico. His answer was an inadvertent slip of truth.

“Mr. Iglesias lost the confidence of Senator Domenici, as I recall, in the fall of 2005,” Mr. Gonzales said. It was Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, of course, who made a wildly inappropriate phone call to Mr. Iglesias in 2006, not 2005, to ask whether charges would be filed soon in a corruption inquiry focused on Democrats. When Mr. Iglesias said he did not think so, Mr. Domenici hung up and complained to the White House. Shortly after, Mr. Iglesias’s name was added to the firing list.

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But if we believe the testimony that neither he nor any other senior Justice Department official was calling the shots on the purge, then the public needs to know who was. That is why the Judiciary Committee must stick to its insistence that Mr. Rove, Ms. Miers and other White House officials testify in public and under oath and that all documents be turned over to Congress, including e-mail messages by Mr. Rove that the Republican Party has yet to produce.

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[MannyGoldstein]

1. And People Say That The Times Goes Easy On Bush

Since Howell Raines and Judith Miller were purged, the Times has been doing a fantastic job.

Thank you!

[Spazito]

2. Good editorial, thanks for posting

I loved the opening sentence, it says it all:

If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job,...

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[saltpoint]

3. You lucky New Yorkers -- you get to walk through the Village and pick up a

copy of tomorrow's TIMES and read one like the one above, in which Gonzales is revealed to be a lying weasel.

(Hey. Provocative line break there in the subject line, eh?)

I wonder if Keller or Rich or who wrote this. It's awfully good. And exactly right.

[Blackhatjack]

4. The more Gonzo said, the more we are sure of his incompetence and lying...

He should have never appeared to testify again.

[Hissyspit]

5. .

[L. Coyote]

6. KICK w/ Thanks. Your efforts are impressive. Cross-posted too.

I'm counting the coffin nails this morning, and this is a big one.
But, will the lying zombies even notice?

Cross-posted at: Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=523978&mesg_id=523978

[L. Coyote]

7. NPR Politics: Senators Renew Bipartisan Call for Gonzales to Go

Excellent web page with links to the audio of the hearings, NPR's Special Coverage, MP3 Download, links to in-depth articles, and more.

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NPR Politics: Senators Renew Bipartisan Call for Gonzales to Go
by Pam Fessler
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9515295

* Hear Nina Totenberg's Report for 'Morning Edition'

NPR.org, April 19, 2007 · Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced renewed calls for his resignation Thursday during a contentious daylong hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. After lengthy questioning about what led to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, both Democrats and Republicans said they had lost confidence in the attorney general and his handling of the department.

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[L. Coyote]

8. KICK

[L. Coyote]

9. Kick for the morning crowd.

[Marr]

10. They need to seize those RNC servers immediately.

The fact that the emails in question are with the Republican Party is damning in itself.