NY Times editorial demands AG Gonzales ouster!

[msongs]

first saw this blurb on dailykos

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/opinion/11sun1.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

let the games begin :-)

Msongs
www.msongs.com

[Coexist]

1. knr - very well put.

[Monkeyman]

2. Ok who on Fox Noise will say it first any bets

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Impeach Gonzales if bush won't "oust" him. Gonzales first, then Cheney then bush.

[originalpckelly]

4. I've been saying this on every story about this, but I'll say it again:

This "overblown personnel matter" is becoming a lot like that "third rate burglary".

(That overblown bit is from AG Gonzales own Op-Ed in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070307/oppose07.art.htm )

[ninkasi]

5. He should have never been confirmed

He was obviously unfit for the position from the beginning, but this must have been one of the times we were "keeping our powder dry", yet again. All it gave us was two right-wing zealots on the SCOTUS, and Alberto Gonzales, who has always reminded me of a kid willing to blow up frogs,along with Bush. They both make my skin crawl.

[msongs]

6. dems did not have the votes at that time to block him nt

[unblock]

9. we had the votes to filibuster

at least if we had had some semblance of party unity, anyway.

[cyberpj]

20. Exactly! Thanks for pointing that out. nt

[cosmicdot]

24. yep, and for the thread record: confirmation vote info

Confirmation YEAs ---60

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chafee (R-RI)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA) <---------------
Lieberman (D-CT) <--------------
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL) <---------------
Nelson (D-NE) <---------------
Pryor (D-AR) <--------------
Roberts (R-KS)
Salazar (D-CO) <---------------
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

NAYs ---36

Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 4 (3 Democrats)

Baucus (D-MT)
Burns (R-MT)
Conrad (D-ND)
Inouye (D-HI)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00003


CondiLIAR did even better with only 13 Democrats voting against her, but that's a different story

[satya]

7. Gonzales legacy: "consigliere to Mr. Bush’s imperial presidency". nt

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. Great editorial. Too bad they had to add the Arlen Specter comment, though.

I wish he had the passion of Don Quixote, but unfortunately he justs tilts at windmills for the show. When put up to a vote, he will pack up his spear and ride in the other direction.

[cyberpj]

21. Based on past history you are dead on regarding Spector.

I've noticed the same with my own Joe Biden many times too.

[Supersedeas]

23. a spineless toad--if justice and truth mean anything, Al Gonzo must go

[farmbo]

10. Humm...the NYT spikes the debate "bulge" story, sits on the NSA spying story...

-- until after the 2004 elections-- and now, in 2007 with Bush safely re-elected, weighs in against Bush's hand-picked AG.

For f#*# sakes... where was this "bold" journalism in 2004, when we could have saved our country?

:shrug:

[peacetalksforall]

11. Dismiss and appoint - if left to Bush and Cheney, it will be Bork.

Revenge is the name of the game. Revenge on a person. Revenge on a nation. Revenge on a political pary - or at least the ones who don't sit with Republicans while they silence, swing their axe, and slip things in to things.

[screembloodymurder]

12. Right on.

Put him where he belongs, on the other side of the fence.

[UTUSN]

13. Ruben NAVARRETTE, that other houseboy

claimed that his nomination showed Shrub as more responsive to Hispanics than Dems, that GONZALES ought to be EASILY confirmed JUST BECAUSE he is Hispanic (a racist argument), and that once he was in office, NAVARRETTE would monitor him closely and be the first to call him out on lapses. Yeah, right, like O.J. is exhaustively searching for the killer.

NAVARRETTE is one of those Affirmative Action alumni, like Clarence, who somehow become wingnuts at those "Liberal" colleges.

Our response to the wingnut ploy of fielding Minority members as their own should be: We're against him because he's a WINGNUT, nothing to do with his ethnicity. NEGROPONTE, Otto REICH, and all those 1st generation CIA-Cuban Exiles are Hispanics, too, and that doesn't make them immune from our opposition.

[yourout]

14. I demand his incarceration.

[kestrel91316]

15. Gonzales won't quit. They'll have to impeach, arrest, and physically

remove him from office.

He's critical to the team effort to destroy our government and nation.

[regnaD kciN]

16. The White House's likely reaction...

:rofl:

[Hekate]

17. Excellent. But where have they been while Little Torquemada's been trampling the Constitution?

The New York Times has a long way to go in repairing the harm their negligence has abetted. Better get cracking, guys.

Hekate

[cyberpj]

22. Yes! They've got a lot to account for in my opinion. Jumping on the

band wagon once it's rolling is no big deal. These people are supposed to be the starters of band wagons.

[ReadTomPaine]

18. Agreed - it's time to purge Alberto

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x386690

[alfredo]

19. It would be good to see him gone.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

25. Recommended from Nicaragua

2 weeks without news and WOW! Got some catching up to do! so far loving everything I´m reading except the asshole wants even MORE troops and money.