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- vatosplace, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31The Buck stops somewhere else.
- EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31Clearly, I think we need to get Paul McNulty before Congress, under oath, to tell us why he was allowed to do the Attorney General's job for him.
If Gonzales isn't capable of running the department without these people that seem to do everything for him, he should resign for that alone. - obliviousfool, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30Ha ha ha ha ha! This video is great!
If Gonzales steps down, we have to hold hearings for his replacement. No such hearings need to be held for the deputy AG. Therefore, the deputy AG takes the blame.
Hey, how convenient! - reeder, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28Gonzales is the most pathetic, simpering liar in a court of fools performing a comedy of gross errors. Except, of course, their errors end up killing thousands of people.
- shawnfassett, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28Great defense...pissing off the people that can turn on you. What a moron.
- hawkeye17, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26The bottom line is this, the Administration is filled with bad people. Not just incompetent or corrupt...but just plain bad people. They don't have the courage to take responsibility for anything like normal adults do everyday. Most of these people just have no moral fiber whatsoever and what Gonzo is doing here is just more evidence of that basic fact. It would be refreshing to see one of these stooges act like a man and accept responsibility for their actions. It won't happen though.
- Channel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24Gonzales doesn't even know what is job is, besides protect the president.
- zweben, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20I'd like to see a video of someone throwing Gonzales under a bus.
- joshua5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Translation: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very happy to announce we have figured out how to spin a scenario in which someone besides me is completely to blame."
- PATSCRU, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16and officially that shouldn't be his job...that's what's so disconcerting about his tenure, he has changed the AG's role from a servant of the people to the servant of the president.
- EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16Proving once again that you're either on the bus or you're under it. The question is: will McNulty opt for the shadows, where all such roadkill goes to die, or will he take the microphone for one last gasp before he dies.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13> "Gonzales said McNulty has 'most of the operational authority and decisions' at the DoJ."
Well then what the hell is *his* job; to forget things? Damnit, *I* could do that! - BillDoor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Is this guy just dumb or stupid??? He has been asked this question several times under oath. He's response, "I don't Know". Has he just announced publicly, that he has been lying under oath ??
- budgetguitar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Alberto Gonzales is a liar and a coward. His children are the children of a boy who learned to B.S. his way through life. His wife is married to a person who does not perform well at a job he supports his family with. It's too late to hope that Alberto will make things right by telling the truth. I hope the rest of his life is wrought with guilt over the corruption he's helped perpetuate.
Karma is coming Mr. Gonzales. Are you on it's good side? - Humptydank, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10
And the Bush administration releases another articulate, well-informed, pissed-off attorney into the wild. They should just print a book deal contract on the back of all their their pink slips, it would save everybody some time. - Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Gonzales is yet another unqualified crony. They're going to have to invent new words to describe the level of corruption and nepotism that this administration has sunk to.
- carlosglz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I am ashamed to have the same last name as that man, and the fact that he is Latino makes me cringe. Can we have him sent to one of those secret prisons the administration is so fond of?
- thepaul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7So Gonzales threw McNulty under the bus. Well, as they like to say, there's another bus coming any minute now.
I think this one Gonzales will either be on or be under. And I'm voting for under. - Hejre, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Depressing that he represents Hispanics in government...
- GottIstTot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7@Zweben, you are now my hero.
- mabhatter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Actually, the first president to be impeached was impeached for a similar reason. You can't have Congress approve the appointees, but then let the president fire them for no good reason. It's not that the president can't fire them, but if it took Congress approval to get them in, the president should be more than capable to explain to Congress in detail why they were let go. Appointees serve the United States of America, not the President. That somehow a deputy director is at fault is a blatant cop-out of the highest order. For lawyers, they are not doing a very good job of covering their asses...like any employer should. I think you'd have a better case for documentation of termination of a Walmart employee than we're getting for some of the most important public offices in the USA... THAT is a very sad state of affairs. Firing attorneys is not a way to "switch up" your team mid game... I think that's honestly what's going on here. They've used this batch up until they protested breaking the law, so wanted another batch to replace them and carry out orders...the fact that they changed the rules to allow LESS Congressional oversight of the DAs then hired one of the guys who wrote that into the bill is only icing on the cake of VERY crooked dealings going on.
- n8r0n, on 10/11/2007, -6/+11Buried as inaccurate. I never saw a bus, let alone anyone being thrown under one.
- ichbinladen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Nice try Gonzo, you lying sack of *****.
- alex1432, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4So what exactly does Gonazles do? Seems like nothing is his fault.
- 3th0s, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5
Well at least he's delegating some kind of blame. Maybe now people can see that he's just the incompetent replacement for John ***** Ashcroft.
Oh wait? That's not new(s)...my bad. - Ransomowris, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I took the title too literally.
Too bad, too. What a disappointment. - carlosglz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Oh yes, because the video is from thinkprogress, we all must be mindful that they might have tampered with it, or doctored it to suit their secret agenda.
//end sarcasm - daleok, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Gonzo.......get some balls and take responsibility for your actions or, in this case, inactions. Additional evidence that key posts are filled by this administration with people that do not have a clue. I can't wait until this administration is done and gone.
- gratefulspread, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4it doesn't matter what site hosts it, the video was enough to convince me that Gonzalez is a douchebag
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Another fine example of the politics of "personal responsibility."
Good job, right wingers. - carlosglz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Tell me about it...
- boelder, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Perhaps you've noticed the proliferation of "digg it" buttons on certain websites. Well, I guess enough digg.com users, who also frequent thinkprogress, thought enough of this story to get it submitted. thinkprogress makes use of such buttons for their stories.
Cheers.
-b - dtschwe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3what a son of a bitch! i guess it took him a while to decide who he was going to knock down on his way to the fire exit.
- extreme01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4typical typical. What ever happened to "the buck stops here" slogan??
- carlosglz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Well I highly doubt that he is an illegal Mexican. And do you think John Ashcroft was much better than this *****? All of Chimpy McFlightsuit's administration sucks ass... national origin has nothing to do with it.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Please gasp, please gasp, please gasp!!!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Sounds like we need a Justice Czar. Somebody who can report directly to the Attorney General, and be responsible for all that justicin'.
- carlosglz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Well if you remember, when Clinton lied under oath, they tried to impeach him. And all he lied about was a blowjob, and I haven't checked the latest patriot act, but that still is perfectly legal.
- sonaboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2hahah...Gonzo is really desperate now.
- obliviousfool, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"You may personally find it reprehensible, but that's a political matter that is dealt with at the polls."
Well, that's part of the problem here. There was pressure on these US attorneys to help influence voting by prosecuting a Democrat, or to look the other way on Republican corruption. These attorneys have been put in places that Karl Rove believes will be swing states in the '08 election. All the evidence suggests that this administration is using the justice department to influence elections, or maybe look the other way on voter fraud. In other words, you say "just vote them out" when they are trying to change your ability to vote them out by using the justice department to sway elections. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Gutless,....... PUNK.
- kreneskyp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Its not surprising that AG's direct underling is taking the blame. Its standard operating procedure in this administration. Its unbelievable that more of these officials arent concerned with what laws the person above them is breaking. They can just pass the blame on anything they do themselves, but the ***** only seems to flow down one tier.
Its also not surprising that bush wont let AG go. There is no way that a dem congress will ever approve another bush yes-man, especially not to to the office of attorney general. If an independent candidate got in that office he could blow the doors open on so many scandals that the majority of this administration would never see the light of day again. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Gonzales looks, sounds and acts like a weasel. Rarely does the ID give so many clues that a man is, in fact, not to be trusted.
Take GW Bush for example. He looks like a chimp but that doesn't really mean you can't trust him because chimps can be pretty cool. - icexe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2i really think i'm getting desensitized to all the lies, corruption, *****-ups, and idiocy of this administration. i stopped wondering a long time ago if it can get any worse, because every week, it does.
- RedShirtNumber2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Gonzo is going down for this eventualy and when he does I bet he sings like a canary. He is just to much of a little weasel not too. Rove should be very afraid.
- NCSUspoon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1How does he remember that?
- sunprema, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Gonzales is one of the scapegoat in Bush's administration.., In India, in (SP)rituals,
the priest will wait for the scapegoat to shake the head, (kinda like goat accepting being offered to God..) before the event.....Gonzales is just not shaking his head !!!!, a stubborn scapegoat. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Chicken-***** beaner.
- DeucesWild, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I was going to post something witty but now I don't recall what that was.
- understudy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3
How can anyone defend this guy? I will say that while Gonzo should go, I am quite concerned that someone even worse will be his replacement.
See, if I were Cheney or Rove, I'd find an even more devious replacement for Gonzo behind the scenes. In the meantime, I'd keep supporting Gonzales for as long as possible—allowing everything to build to a fever pitch. I'd have the President stand by defending him time and time again. Then, when the situation was at it's end, I would tell the President to fire Gonzales. Democrats (and Republicans too) would rejoice at their victory, and would let down their guard. And with that, the new replacement would slide right in.
I hope we'll all stay vigilant.
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