Gonzales resigned
The Washington Post reports;
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced his resignation today, ending a controversial cabinet tenure that included clashes with Congress over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and over the use of warrantless wiretaps in the war on terror.Â
I guess I missed something. What has been proven that the Attorney General did that prompted this kind of reaction from the uber-partisan Left;
“Alberto Gonzales was never the right man for this job. He lacked independence, he lacked judgment, and he lacked the spine to say no to Karl Rove. This resignation is not the end of the story. Congress must get to the bottom of this mess and follow the facts where they lead, into the White House.” — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Ah, Karl Rove lives and breathes. So I guess the Senate’s investigation is through – Reid has come to a decision about this as a result of a completed investigation.
“It has been a long and difficult struggle but at last, the attorney general has done the right thing and stepped down.” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
Who made it a long and difficult struggle, Lil Chucky? Maybe it was you and your tight-assed little pricks who were determined to find something wrong where there was nothing?
The Justice Department under Gonzales “suffered a severe crisis of leadership that allowed our justice system to be corrupted by political influence.” Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Corrupted by what what political influence Leaky Leahy? Like when the Attorney General of the previous administration wouldn’t investigate her BOSS? Or like when Gonzales let your monkey-ass slide on charges that you leaked national security-sensitive information for political reasons. He should have fried your dusty ass.
“It is a sad day when the attorney general of the United States resigns amid a cloud of suspicion that the system of justice has been manipulated for political purposes. More than accountability, we need answers. ….If the power of the prosecutor has been misused in the name of partisanship, we deserve a full airing of the facts.” — Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., House Judiciary chairman.
“Manipulated for political purposes” like when you, John Conyers, tried to influence the Senate to delay advice and consent for Gerald Ford’s VP appointment so you could impeach Nixon and install the Democrat Speaker of the House as president in effect overturning the people’s vote in 1972? Ya mean like that?
“He has exhibited a lack of candor with Congress and the American people and a disdain for the rule of law and our constitutional system. I strongly urge President Bush to nominate a new attorney general who will respect our laws and restore the integrity of the office.” — Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
What about your lack of candor and disdain for the rule of law on the night and the decades since Mary Jo Kopekne died, Jabba the Kennedy.
“It’s about time … Gonzales now joins a long list of Republican officials resigning under a cloud of scandal, but these resignations cannot purge the Bush administration of its problems. The true problem rests with the Bush White House itself, which continues to put what’s best for the Republican Party ahead of what’s best for America.” — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
“Resigning under a cloud” of manufactured scandals, Dipshit Dean. Tell me what Gonzales did that was so scandalous. Just saying the words don’t make it so, numbnuts.
“Better late than never.” — [the prettiest girl] Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
That must be what you tell the crowds when you leave them standing in the hot sun for hours while they await your string of lies and hypocrisy.
“I have long believed that Alberto Gonzales subverted justice to promote a political agenda, and so I am pleased that he has finally resigned today. The President needs to nominate an Attorney General who will be the people’s lawyer, not the President’s lawyer, and in an Obama Administration that person will first and foremost defend and promote the rights and liberties enshrined in our Constitution,” said Obama.
Who tipped over your tricycle, sonny? Just because you “long believed” something, that doesn’t make it so. Immature little sissy.
The fact that Harry Reid mentions that the investigation must continue tells me that no one has proven anything yet. Yet all of these ignorant peckerwoods have already passed judgement. Is it any wonder he resigned in the face of a jury that had already convicted him?
I hope other minority citizens in this country take notes and see what happens when they stray from the Democrats’ plantation.
From the Wall Street Journal;
“It is my hope that whomever President Bush selects as the next attorney general, he or she is not subjected to the same poisonous partisanship that we’ve sadly grown accustomed to over the past eight months,” [Senator Mitch] McConnell (R., Ky.), said in a statement.
Don’t count on it – in fact I doubt that the president will get another Attorney General given what the Democrats consider a “choice”. Hell, I’ll bet Schumer and Kennedy would oppose the nominee if he was either of them. Schumer said this about Gonzales when the President named him as the nominee a scant three years ago;
New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer said at the time: “It’s encouraging that the president has chosen someone less polarizing. We will have to review his record very carefully, but I can tell you already he’s a better candidate than John Ashcroft.”
Curt at Flopping Aces speculates on Gonzales’ replacement – but personally I don’t think a Bush appointee will ever sit in the office again.
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