Bush calls Gonzales.
By on Mar 20th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Bush calls Gonzales.
“President Bush sent a powerful message of support Tuesday for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, calling his longtime friend to express unwavering support in the face of calls for his resignation. The White House also denied reports that it was looking for possible successors for Gonzales. ‘Those rumors are untrue,’ White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.”
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Unwavering support….?
Gonzo is toast.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:10 amFine with me.
Keep that albatross around your neck, Chimpy.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:12 amHeckuva job, Gonzo, har har har }:D
March 20th, 2007 at 10:13 amIsn’t that the same thing he said about gin Rummy until he got the ol’ heave ho?
March 20th, 2007 at 10:13 amFine with me, too, because the longer Bush refuses to listen to the wishes of the people & his own party, the more he tanks any repuke who runs for public office.
This level of unwavering support can mean only one thing in the face of such unparalleled requests for his dismissal and that is that Gonzo and Bush go wayyyyyyy back….way back to some things which Bush would like to simply “go away”….. probably activities which Bush fears will now be dredged up to haunt him…..
Gonzo is a “card carrying, dues paying” co-conspirator of some of Bush’s crimes and may be tempted to sing if he’s snubbed by his buddy.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:15 amMaybe Gonzo will now get the Medal of Honor?
March 20th, 2007 at 10:15 amAnd Unwavering support for Rumfeld too and look what happened to him .
March 20th, 2007 at 10:15 amThis of course means he will be out by the end of this week. No doubt remains.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:18 amHow can Bush fire that cute little Mexian
March 20th, 2007 at 10:19 amverse18 sez:
Yes…I seem to remember he said that right up until after the November asskicking^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Helections.
Then, he abruptly canned Rummy, and when asked to explain his reversal, told the press, “yeah…I was lying before”.
Heck of a prez, chimpy.
(Of course, as we all know, Rummy still has his “transition office” in Washington. Gonzo will probably be given the same treatment when he is canned…. )
March 20th, 2007 at 10:19 amMay they both be convicted and condemned…
…together…
March 20th, 2007 at 10:20 amIt took a long time for Bush to find someone willing to do the things that even Ashcroft wouldn’t do. Replacing him would be even harder.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:20 amGonzo’s heckuva job moment.
I give him till the end of the month.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:21 am“And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.”
-George W. Bush
September 30, 2003.
Some things never change.
Like Old dogs and a criminals MO.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:24 amSo Chimpy is trying to Torquemada resigning now?
Ba bum -thanks Mel
March 20th, 2007 at 10:25 amJust the fact Fitz was on the original list will rankle many.
When one lies as a way of being, being becomes a lie.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:27 amI wonder how much the other elected Republicans appreciate this unwavering support. Maybe the appreciate this ironclad stupidity so much that they’ll jump on the impeachment bandwagon.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:30 amIts all good.
I haven’t heard them call this a racist attack YET but that’s usually the gameplan for Bush’s sychphant tokens when their caught by their lies or incompetence.
Our poor defenseless, torture Tsar, torqomada Gonzales.
I’m sure he’ll have a “quaint” defense.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:30 amChimpy and Goonzales sitting in a tree. First comes testifying under oath. Then comes indictments and impeachment. Then comes the whole damn bunch strung by their b—s in Guantanamo.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:31 amBush proves once again that he is incapable of learning. It will be his downfall. He just keeps doing the same things, no matter what the environment. He simply won’t be able to adapt to Congressional oversight, and won’t be able to even pretend to follow the law. And now he is digging in his heels, because of which his senior staff will now be served subpoenas that might have been avoided.
Republicans in Congress need to get on the impeachment train soon or they won’t have a party left to speak of after 2008.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:31 amA Fat Lady is singing in the distance.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:33 amComment by mparker — March 20, 2007 @ 10:30 am
Our very own trolls have called it racist – and we know they get their talking points from somewhere. Ooooh…we’re hearing them here first…we are so cutting edge.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:35 amCalled him?
March 20th, 2007 at 10:36 amCalled him what?
Members of the Sam Seder Juggernaut are using their psychic powers to determine when the attorney general will bow out:
[...]
Ethan, Portland, OR, 13 years old: “When Bush says: ‘Alberto Gonzales is the greatest attorney general in the history of the country. He’ll be with me until the end of my administration,’ Gonzales will be fired the next day.”
this ethan just may be the winner!
March 20th, 2007 at 10:37 amI hope Gonzo does hold on for a while longer, at least until the subpeanas start flying…
I sure would like to see Rove under sworn scrutiny.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:39 amGonzo has been called to the presence of the ‘Don’. Next thing he’ll know is that he’s sleeping with the head of a horse…
March 20th, 2007 at 10:39 amdefine “…the person will be taken care of.â€
it’s not what normal, good thinking, law abiding people would guess…
March 20th, 2007 at 10:40 ami’m guessing…
Evil Spaniard,
March 20th, 2007 at 10:47 amOr maybe some horse will wake up with Gonzo’s head in it’s bed.
“And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.â€
-George W. Bush
September 30, 2003.
Translation: “If the person was doing our bidding and trying to advance our agenda, even if it meant violating a law, that person will be taken care of financially through our network of corporate sanctuaries.”
March 20th, 2007 at 10:47 amawesome. this is a big win for the justice department’s credibility.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:51 amjust heard sydney blumenthal on sam’s show… he says he doesn’t think gonzo will be fired… too close to dubya, who even called him “frodo” (godfather fame)…
also, “a constitutional crisis” is coming…
buck up dems… keep that spine!
they need to hear from us!
March 20th, 2007 at 10:56 amPlaying ‘the will he resign, when will he resign, who will replace him’ game is a Rovian trick.
Rove will want the whole scandal focused on Gonzales. Then, when the media wolves are at a fever pitch — Gonzales will quit. Bush, Cheney and their propagandists will then proclaim that the liberals have destroyed another good man and now it is time to move on.
The real scandals will then fade away.
I hope Gonzales stays on and I hope opponents of the Bush regime stop all the crazy speculation about Alberto. There are bigger fish to fry.
Because … it sure seems to me that there must be a bigger reason for firing these USAttorneys besides ‘loyalty’ to Bush. I wonder if perhaps one of these prosecutors (maybe Lam) was on to something real big (the Cheney furniture connection?) and so a firing of several USAttorneys was contrived to cover-up the one deadly crime?
March 20th, 2007 at 10:59 amLike I said before in another thread – this is not really all that surprising.
“She’s referring to the fact that my Attorney General, longtime friend, a guy who was my — close when I was the governor of Texas, came up to Washington with me as part of the movement of Texans south to north during the government. He’s been my lawyer in the White House; he’s now the Attorney General; he’s under — he’s being criticized. I don’t like it when a friend gets criticized. I’m loyal to my friends. And all of a sudden this fellow, who is a good public servant and a really fine person, is under fire. And so, do I like it? No, I don’t like it, at all.†-President Bush when asked about criticism of Alberto Gonzales, Denmark, July 6, 2005
March 20th, 2007 at 11:06 am‘loyalty’ to Bush
The following is an excerpt from: Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush By Lou Dubose, Jan Reid and Carl M. Cannon
Despite his good moments, toiling alongside Karl Rove is taxing, and Hughes could only laugh aloud after her White House stint when a West Texan named Less Virgil asked her at a public speaking forum in Austin, “How difficult is it for you to work with Karl Rove?”
At least Hughes was on equal footing with Rove. Others were not so blessed. “Family-friendly” White House or not, Rove is wired to hundreds of fellow Bushies by laptop, cell phone, and the BlackBerry he wears on his belt. He doesn’t hesitate to use those gadgets regardless of the hour–he sometimes sends text messages while in bed–nor does he tend to ask first what the person on the other end of the line is doing before launching into the purpose of his call.
These “Rove-grams” can be made to adversaries as well as to colleagues and friends. They can communicate pleasantries, matter-of-fact instructions, expressions of glee (”It’s Miller Time!” is a favorite)—or they can convey threats, especially to Republicans who have strayed from the path. Stephen Moore, of the conservative, probusiness Club for Growth, recalls wandering around the garage at Reagan Washington National Airport searching for his car one evening, cell phone to his ear, disorientated by the sound of Rove screaming at him in a telephone tirade. “Stupid” was one of the milder insults Rove hurled at Moore. “He’s perpetually angry at me,” Moore explained later, with a shrug. “I’ve done so many things to piss him off.” In this instance, Rove was incensed by Moore’s efforts to rally fiscally conservative Republicans in Congress to vote against a Medicare prescription-drug benefit being pushed by the White House. “You’re going to screw everything up!” Rove hollered at Moore. “We’re going to get the Democrats’ bill if you’re not careful!”
Rove continues to dismiss environmentalists as “green beans,” and would say that Democrats or liberal reporters who accused Rove of dirty tricks were “sniffing swamp gas.” Intimidation also remained part of Rove’s repertoire–just as it was back in Texas. Freelance journalist Ron Suskind recalls sitting outside Rove’s White House office awaiting an interview for Esquire magazine piece when he heard Rove shouting, either at an aide or someone on the phone: “We will fuck him! Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him–like no one has ever fucked him!”
White House officials rejoined that Suskind, who has produced numerous pieces critical of Bush, has “a hyperactive imagination.” But no one tried to assert that Rove does not talk this way. Besides Rove’s colleagues understand his motivations: In the parlance of the Bush circle, people like Steve Moore—and the person Rove was yelling about screwing over—are not “team players.” And the Bushies are nothing if not team players. It is not just a compliment in the Bush White House; it is a requirement. If this makes them seem clannish, or insular, and resistant to outside ideas, the Bushies’ attitude is so be it. It is one of the costs of the absolute loyalty demanded by Bush, and, in turn, by Karl Rove.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:14 amHeartland Liberal: Hope you’re right. I have this Thursday in the office pool.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:16 ambush has no sympathy at all. With all the problems Gonzales has at the moment, bush has to call and make his life more unbearable. Not that he doesn’t deserve it.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:16 amheckuva job, Gonzy!
March 20th, 2007 at 11:18 amI’ve been reading Joe Conaston’s latest book, which defines Gonzo as the ultimate yes man. His job has always been to tell GWB whatever GWB wants to hear and very much not to tell him things that might disturb him. “Oh, yeah, sure you can do that. You’re god, er, president.”
It goes back to his lapdog duty in Texas, where he was responsible for bringing to the Governor any clemency requests. One guy appealed because his court-appointed lawyer had literally slept through the trial. Gonzo neglected to mention this to Bush when presenting the appeal, because “He was well aware that the boss wouldn’t care and didn’t want to know.”
It is difficult to imagine where Bush is going to find a lapdog like that, since Hannity is probably happy right where he is.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:26 amEarthside ~ that crossed my mind too. Shell game / three card Monty with one up the sleeve. Distract, disavow, what?
March 20th, 2007 at 11:27 amThey usually do the “unwavering support” mantra about 2 days before the firing. My bet is that Gitmo will be booted after 4:00 pm this Friday and that he’ll have a 7 figure job with a lobbying firm Monday morning.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:37 amBush himself must resign, so who cares about his stooge Gonzales?
March 20th, 2007 at 11:38 amI don’t blame Bush here. No law was broken so why should anyone have to resign over it? Just because the Dems don’t approve of minorities having power doesn’t mean Bush needs to cave to them. It is time the Dems start accepting minorities as equals instead of simply demanding their vote. Bush is correct here and should stand up for these folks. Bush is leading the way and showing the Dems it is alright to put minorities in positions of power like Sec. of State and Attorney General. I hope that the Dems someday, hopefully within the next 10-20 years, get on the same page with the Repugs and appoint a minority as well. Why can’t they go with the flow instead of attack anyone that thinks minorities are equal and deserve a shot at serving this country at the highest levels?
March 20th, 2007 at 11:47 amNo Pa!! ya can’t shoot ol yeller!!! No! Pa, No!!!
Yeller!!!
Yeller!!!
No, Pa, don’t shoot him! he didn’t mean it!! He doesn’t remember!! He’ll get better, I promise, Pa!!!
March 20th, 2007 at 11:52 amG’won, Gonzo, git now. We cain’t hav no mo’ law brakin ’round hea, no mo’, y’heah? Bah, bah-
March 20th, 2007 at 12:21 pmLet the games begin. Me thinks that Leaky Leahy will go too far and that there will be a public backlash against the hateful left and their witch hunt against the President.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:22 pmI don’t blame Bush here. No law was broken so why should anyone have to resign over it? Just because the Dems don’t approve of minorities having power doesn’t mean Bush needs to cave to them. It is time the Dems start accepting minorities as equals instead of simply demanding their vote. Bush is correct here and should stand up for these folks. Bush is leading the way and showing the Dems it is alright to put minorities in positions of power like Sec. of State and Attorney General. I hope that the Dems someday, hopefully within the next 10-20 years, get on the same page with the Repugs and appoint a minority as well. Why can’t they go with the flow instead of attack anyone that thinks minorities are equal and deserve a shot at serving this country at the highest levels?
Comment by Roger_Roger — March 20, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Wow, a troll playing the race card along with a strawman argument. Whoduthunkit?
Roger_Doger, as a minority I can tell you that we don’t need your type of help to ‘defend’ us.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pm#45- A backlash across your back, fascist baby. Why me laugh?
March 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pm#28 Evil Spaniard,
Or maybe some horse will wake up with Gonzo’s head in it’s bed.
Comment by RUCerious — March 20, 2007 @ 10:47 am
I feel sorry for the poor horse. That’s a horrible awakening.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:34 pmroger is the reason dubbie picked gonzo in the first place. if and when he got busted, they could hurry up and call “racist” against anyone who tried to bring him to justice – that’s why they put Powell and Rice on the team, and it’s not racist of me to say that – it’s racist of them to do that for purely tactical reasons.
LHT – where’d you get the acid?
March 20th, 2007 at 2:41 pmThe telephone call of support to Gonzales was a taped message. Trust me!
With so many scandals, George Bush just doesn’t have the time to make individual calls. I’m sure the taped telephone call was the exact same message all of the disgraced Bush administration officials receive.
We, the American taxpayers, should be so thankful the tapes of support can be used over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over , and over, and over again. The Bush administration is saving us big bucks. Thanks!
We shouldn’t fret about the quality of the tapes. No! No! No! The quality of the tapes is the best money can buy, so the sound is exellent. It’s not like George is buying these tapes at Target. Heck no!
Sound quality-wise the message Michael Brown, the fired FEMA director, received was the exact same one as the Gonzales’ message.
George Bush is clever, so he may have signed off with “Adios” in Alberto’s message. It’s no big deal, and it’s not costing us taxpayers more money, as these taping machines are programmed in 128 languages.
No doubt there was more than one “Adios.” That’s my best guess.
Try Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios…………………
I don’t speak Spanish but I bet George, in Spanish, said to Alberto, “Don’t you come here back no more.”
John
March 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pmSo whats the over/under on him leaving? Its March 20th so I say he resigns in nine days, on the 29th.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pmOr maybe today at 5:30
March 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm“Brownie, Rummy, AL, ya’re ALL DOIN’ A HELL OF A JOB!!!!!”
March 20th, 2007 at 10:37 pm“WHERE’D THEY ALL GO?????”
Gonzales’ job is safe. Bush hasn’t yet uttered the killer words:
“Gonzales is the best Attorney General the U.S. had ever had”.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:43 pmChubby Grannies Chubby Blonde Mature Chubby Mature Thumbs
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March 27th, 2008 at 7:49 pm