Reply #119: AP: Gonzales Urged to Consider Resigning = Newt Gingrich said Sunday

[L. Coyote]

Gingrich is out front spinning this, saying the buck stops at Gonzales. This is just more good reason to wonder where the buck really stops, especially with the resignation of the White House liason, Monica Goodling, who stated she would plead the Fifth before Congress. Gingrich seems to be serving Bush on this one. Maybe he isn't running after all!

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Gonzales Urged to Consider Resigning
Sunday April 8, 2007 3:46 PM
By HOPE YEN
Associated Press Writer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6541703,00.html


WASHINGTON (AP) - Newt Gingrich said Sunday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should consider resigning as the former House speaker joined a list of Republicans who say the botched firing of U.S. attorneys has destroyed Gonzales' credibility.

``The public would be much better served to have another attorney general,'' said Gingrich, who is considering a possible 2008 presidential run. ``I cannot imagine how he's going to be effective for the rest of his administration. They're going to be involved in endless hearings.''

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The committee also has pledged to compel the testimony of White House officials such as Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers to determine the extent of White House involvement. ...

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Gingrich harshly criticized Gonzales' judgment in allowing the firings to escalate into such a political scandal.

Gingrich noted that a president has every right to fire U.S. attorneys for any reason. Therefore, he said, all Gonzales had to do was to say that Bush wanted new people. Instead, Gingrich said, the attorney general made a series of misstatements from which he was forced later to backtrack.

``This is the most mishandled, artificial, self-created mess I've seen in all the years in my public life,'' Gingrich said. ``The buck has to stop somewhere, probably with the attorney general.''

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