The American Mind

Or, OR, just MAYBE, he’s stonewalling because he’s not the only person in the Administration who’s a liar and a crook.

Just maybe.

“Or maybe Bush’s loyalty is getting the better of him”

Or maybe Gonzalez will spill the beans on Rove’s true control of the Justice Department if he is canned?

If Gonzales is that devious why does he make himself look so stupid before Senators and cameras?

Sean, when are you going to stop assuming that politicians are the same with the cameras on as they are when they’re off? Seriously, your naivete astounds me sometimes.

Besides, he doesn’t look “stupid,” he looks like a shitty liar. Big difference.

What still kills me about this whole thing is how during all the warrantless wiretapping hoopla, your take was “as long as they’re not doing it to mess with political ememies it’s not Nixonesque.” Now we have a fired US Attorney scandal that is completely politically motivated and resulting from dissatisfaction with the Attorneys not prosecuting Democrats enough, and you’re still backtracking and making excuses. It is to laugh.

(I still haven’t heard any recanting of all the defense of the PATRIOT ACT now that it’s basically been admitted that the act was abused.)

AGAG doesn’t care whether he looks stupid. Loyalty trumps all in the Bush administration. Bush can’t afford to let Gonzalez be replaced because of the risk of a real investigation by a real Attorney General (the senate is not about to confirm Harriet Myers…), and Gonzalez knows he’ll continue to be rewarded well for being Bush’s lapdog.

This is the fallout of the Libby pardon. Why on Earth would any Bush administration figure answer honestly to federal investigators or even Congress one Bush has made it clear that he’ll use his pardon authority to protect the people who are obstructing justice on his behalf?

And you morons supported the Libby commutation. Good job on that.

Bush wants Gonzales to continue in office, becuase the first question asked of any nominee to replace ALberto would be: “Will you prosecute the president for his repeated violations of Title 50 United States Code Chapter 36, Subchapter One, Sections 1800 et sequii?”

Any replacement for GOnzales would have to promise under oath to uphold the law . . . a situation that THIS White House cannot abide.

As of this morning, however, smart money says Gonzo will either resign, be impeached, or indicted. He’s lied to many times udner oath; he’s NOT the sharpest knife in the drawer; and he couldn’t keep his stories straight.

What really troubles me more than the repeated lies by Mr. Gonzales, is the dark specter of a White House ORDERING the Constitutionally independent Office of the Attorney General to commit illegal acts by installing sertain classified portions of the NSA’s Wire Tapping Program. In effect directing Attorney General Gonzales to brake the law that he was supposed to uphold as our number one Law enforcer.

The one thing that has become crystal clear to any impartial observer is that all trough the Congressional hearing, Mr. Gonzales has been contradicted by EVERY SINGLE WITNESS from the FBI, to the NSA, to the very same Justice Department that Mr. Gonzales is supposed to be the head off. And when one realizes that the President does not have any problem with his Attorney General credibility problems streched now to the braking point, it becomes obvious to me that this Administration truly believes in their arrogance that they have the power to be outside the law, or have any accountability. And that is bad news.

The impression started with Mr. Libby’s “pardon”
regardless of the merit of the case, and is now a full blown alarm in my brain telling me that something is very wrong with this administration.

Let me elaborate. We live in a CONSTITUTIONAL Democracy, that is to say our Democracy stands as long as WE ALL follow the Constitution, and the laws or pay the consecuences. The president swears to support and to defend the constitution in his/her inaguration FOR A REAZON. And the reazon is because that’s the President’s most important job while in office.

Sadly the opposite is happening. This administration needs to come clean with the Wire Tapping Program and stop hiding behind “Classified” documents, and it needs to come clean in the firing of the U.S. Prosecutors…… Or Mr. Gonzales, and even Mr. Bush if necessary need to be impeached period.

This is not partisan. Enough is enough. We can’t have a President making a mockery of our laws, and the rest of us make pretend that we are not becoming a banana republic.

Mr. Gonzales is a disgrace and he needs to resign NOW. If Mr. Bush does not give a darn any more about his place in history, because he knows that it will be dismal, he should at least remember that the oath of loyalty he took was to the American people, not to his buddies from Texas.