Alberto Gonzales hard at work
By on Apr 5th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Alberto Gonzales hard at work
rehearsing for his hearing:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has retreated from public view this week in an intensive effort to save his job, spending hours practicing testimony and phoning lawmakers for support in preparation for pivotal appearances in the Senate this month, according to administration officials. …
Ed Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and Timothy E. Flanigan, who worked for Gonzales at the White House, have met with the attorney general to plot strategy. The department has scheduled three days of rigorous mock testimony sessions next week and Gonzales has placed phone calls to more than a dozen GOP lawmakers seeking support, officials said.
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who pays for all this coaching?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:12 amIf you just tell the truth you don’t have to try to keep all your lies straight, and then you don’t need coaching.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:16 amWhy does one need to rehearse to tell the truth? Don’t you just tell the truth? Or will Gonzo be telling his own “version” of the truth?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:17 amYes Alberto is phoning GOPers in the Congress to remind them that the NSA has all their secrets recorded and will be used against them unless they support him. Call it extortion and blackmail.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:21 amIt’s gonna be fun to see how he tries to re-blame Kyle “Ralph” Sampson.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:39 amColbert’s gonna eat this shit up.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:31 amWhy do you need to rehearse saying “I don’t remember” or “I can’t recall”?
That’s essentially what he’s going to say, that’s what all the Republicans are doing.
They are so ‘forgetful’ that they could hide their own Easter eggs this Sunday.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:50 amWell, it is very hard to keep a straight face when every word that comes out of your mouth is a bald-faced lie, so it is understandable that Abu G. needs lots of practice to get ready for his upcoming lie-fest.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:06 amAnd his office accused a USA of being an absentee manager?
April 5th, 2007 at 7:16 amGosh, if I KNOW the truth and intend to SPEAK the truth, I don’t need a second, much less FOUR DAYS to practice what I am going to say!
Just add the upcoming lies to the pile of horrendous lies Bush and his team have fed the American people (including lying our country into war) and then compare the abundance of their lies to Clinton lying about a blow job.
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April 5th, 2007 at 7:27 amGonzo always has the shit-eating grin on his face … the look of a cat who just ate the canary. It seems like he’s always thinking, ‘I’m lying my ass off to these idiots and getting away with it. Life is sweet and Bush is God.”
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April 5th, 2007 at 7:29 amIf they were planning to have Abu Gonzo tell the truth it would take months of intense coaching, if not years.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:30 amOn the plus side, I think knowing about his preparation prevents the “I don’t recall” defense. Democrats now can say, “You had two weeks to prepare and spent three days practicing what you’d say. One would assume you might actually look some things up.”
April 5th, 2007 at 7:34 amI caught a quick glipse of the Faux “news” gang after the learned that the British sailors were being released. They looked openly disappointed, like they were going to cry. They CLEARLY were enjoying that the British Sailor “hostage crisis” story was saturating the news coverage – which caused a massive diversion away from stories such as Alberto Gonzales lying his ass off and Bush praising him for it and away from the obvious signs that the ’surge’ IS NOT working (despite Graham saying it is because he “bought 5 rugs for 5 bucks”).
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April 5th, 2007 at 7:35 amTimothy Flanigan? The guy who hired Jack Abramoff to lobby on Tyco’s behalf?
Now there’s a guy you want plotting “strategy”. The odds on Gonzo surviving have just been slashed.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:40 amYou had two weeks to prepare and spent three days practicing what you’d say. One would assume you might actually look some things up.â€
nitpicker — April 5, 2007 @ 7:34 am
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Exactly. I am also hoping that the Democrats come up with questions that he has no idea are coming. I’m sure that’s why they’re doing all of this coaching. This is SOO disturbing on SOO many levels that the ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES has lied so many times – and intends to do it some MORE! I personally wanted to see him gone after the Torture and NSA Illegal Spying b.s. defenses he came up with as he testified. Although, all of this stuff goes right on up to the Dictator and it is ultimately HE who should get canned.
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April 5th, 2007 at 7:40 amhe’s got lots and lots of ’splainin’ to do… it’ll be most interesting to watch him try to do it…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
April 5th, 2007 at 8:00 amI know that I have to spend days and days and days of cramming just to remember the truth.
I swear, this is like a bad comedy.
-GSD
April 5th, 2007 at 8:11 amYes, and in order to simply testify with the truth you need to “plot”. Isn’t plotting something that Al Qaeda does?
-GSD
April 5th, 2007 at 8:13 amAlberto Gonzales hard at work rehearsing his Off-broadway production of “Bedtime for Gonzo”– meanwhile, he’s checking in with Romney to see if Romney will hire him to be a gardner “illegally” at one of Romney’s 7 homes… (just in case he’s sacked)
April 5th, 2007 at 8:18 ama bad drama-dy perhaps-it’s funny, but it’s depressing because it’s real…
April 5th, 2007 at 8:19 amIf you did nothing wrong then what is there to practice. ;-)
April 5th, 2007 at 8:34 amjeez, all abu gonzo has to do is tell the truth… why all the extraordinary practice sessions……
April 5th, 2007 at 8:35 amHe’s not just attempting to save his own job . . .
April 5th, 2007 at 8:44 amhe’s the last friend his Uncle Georgie has left .
When this guy finally gets run out of town . . . the public meltdown
of g-dub is gonna be classic .
Pity that Mr. Gonzales didn’t work that hard trying to do his job, rather than to ignore it while the White House did it for him; he might have done enough to keep it, instead of being the first Bush cabinet member to go down in flames.
Powell, Whitman and O’Neill were self-aware enough to resign because they knew they were being abused.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:51 amI suppose he needs the practice because he is not used to telling the truth. I wonder who in the administration can coach him? Them that can, do. Them that can’t, coach.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:54 amOT :
I also think this British soldier release story is a diversion away from his financial scandal that he is involved in.
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can someone answer a simple question for me :
When is Condi in all of this? It took Pelosi to go over there and actually try some diplomacy, something this Admin. knows nothing about.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:08 amErrata :
I was talking about Bliar (Blair) re : the soldier hostage story
and I meant where is Condi in all of this.
sorry
April 5th, 2007 at 9:13 amAlberto Gonzales = Public Fool and Marionette!
April 5th, 2007 at 9:16 amGotta rehearse those phoney-baloney lines because they’re far from the truth. They’re pure fiction so rehearsal is essential.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:17 amTelling the truth shouldn’t require any rehearsal. Hmmmm…….
April 5th, 2007 at 9:48 amyour taxes hard at work
April 5th, 2007 at 9:55 amThe strategy for Gonzales should be very simple: tell the truth. Obviously, if they need intense strategy sessions it can only be to discuss how to shade the truth just short of perjury. Stop the parsing and just tell the unvarnished truth Gonzales.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:57 amAnagram of the day: ablaze goner lost.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:57 am#7 They are so ‘forgetful’ that they could hide their own Easter eggs this Sunday.
Comment by jay severin has a small pEn1s — April 5, 2007 @ 5:50 am
Roflmao! :)
April 5th, 2007 at 10:50 amlies always require extensive practice to get straight before you appear to testify … the truth only requires you to show up …
April 5th, 2007 at 1:09 pmHave you all forgotten yet?
…just checking…
-Abu Gonzo-
April 5th, 2007 at 2:09 pmThat “chinless wonder” Gillespie and “stupid mick” Flanigan? GONZO is INDEED DOOMED!!!!! HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!! HAH!
April 5th, 2007 at 3:11 pmBreaking: US Attorney and Rove protege Timothy Griffin caught lying on his resume about his Army experience.
Little Rock’s interim US Attorney Timothy Griffin made claims about his experience as an Army lawyer that have been put in doubt by military records.
The 38-year-old Griffin claims on his official Web site that he prosecuted 40 criminal cases while at Ft. Campbell, where he was stationed from September 2005 to May 2006. But Army authorities say Ft. Campbell’s records show Griffin only serving as assistant trial counsel on three cases, none of which went to trial.
full story at: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040507D.shtml
April 5th, 2007 at 3:23 pmGonzo should just take the Fifth, like Goodling. That’d show those congress critters!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:49 pmAlberto Gonzales was doing what he was told. Of course, that isn’t an excuse, but obviously one of the prerequisites for working under Bush is the willingness to lie. So Alberto isn’t the only one guilty of lying.
My point is that the #$@!@#! in charge instructed Gonzales to get rid of the non-supporters, and therefore Bush is more responsible for this. I don’t think we should settle for Gonzales’ head when Bush has earned impeachment.
April 10th, 2007 at 4:29 pm