Remembering Gonzales’ days as White House counsel.
By on Apr 25th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Remembering Gonzales’ days as White House counsel.
Robert Novak: “While the current cliché is that Bush never should have named Gonzales as attorney general in the first place, the consensus in the administration was that he was already at sea in his first post as White House counsel. Colin Powell, Bush’s first-term secretary of State, was so appalled by Gonzales that he would shunt him off to Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage, who in turn handed him down to lower levels along the State Department chain of command.”
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LOL AWESOME!!!!
April 25th, 2007 at 4:31 pmAhhhhh, the good old days.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:33 pmI have come to the conclusion that the minds of Gone-zo and DUHbya are like cheap reference books: it doesn’t take long to figure out what they don’t contain.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:34 pmI swear.. He HAS to have something big on Bush to keep Bush hanging on to him.. This is ridiculous.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:34 pmGonzo can’t recall his first post!
April 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pmHow can a group of people, who claim to abhor government, ever get elected. If you don’t like government, you will obviously be bad at doing it. These guys are the worst!!!
We need to quit electing people to government that claim government is a terrible thing.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pmBut Gonzales enjoys the “full confidence” of President Bush.
Just like Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Harriet Miers, John Snow, Bernard Kerik…
April 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pmOf course Gonzo has dirt on Bush….that’s why he got him a pass from jury duty in Texas where he would have been asked if he had any DUI’s.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pmThis is what you get with nepotism.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pm#9,
No, this is what you get with despotism.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:43 pmYeah, Gonzo has something on Bush. Namely that he and his staff intentionally fired US attorneys for investigating republicans.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:43 pmDuring the AG’s congressional hearing I was conflicted as to what I found more aggravating; was it the blatant politicization of the DoJ or was it the fact that a man of obvious middling intellect was heading up the DoJ? Clearly, here is a man possessing the absolute minimum intelligence required to pass the bar exam, and yet he is America’s top cop? Suddenly his thoughts on the quaintness of the Geneva Conventions became clear. He really can’t grasp the importance of upholding such a treaty. He really isn’t smart enough to get it. Warrant-less wire taps? Why not? Extraordinary rendition? No brainer (literally)!
April 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pmRepublicans eating their own…too delicious, LOL!
April 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pmPeople, people, let’s not overlook the most important question raised by this story:
WHY THE HELL DOES ANYONE STILL PAY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING ROBERT NOVAK SAYS?
April 25th, 2007 at 4:45 pmBlackmail?
April 25th, 2007 at 4:55 pmBy now this must be as embarrassing to BushCo as the Harriet Miers SCOTUS nomination.
Time to cut their loses and cut Abu loose.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pmBe fair, Ben B.
Some of them were fired for not investigating Democrats.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:01 pmI hope no one is surprised.
Bush: “Hey Gonzo, I’m goin’ to DC to be prezdent, an’ I need a lahyer–y’innerested?”
Bush: “Yo Gonzo, attorney general slot opened up–care to lend a hand?”
Bush (poking head into Harriet Miers’ office): “Hey honey, how’d ya like to be on the supreme court?”
Qualifications have never had anything to do with this “president”, either for himself or those he chooses to have around him. He just likes to have friends around him, and that’s who happens to get put into positions of power.
Checks and balances are merely inconveniences that people are using to try to prevent gwb from having things his way; so he responds the way one would expect an extraordinarily spoiled child to respond–throw a tantrum, insult, become completely uncooperative.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:02 pmOh, so Gonzales’s troubles aren’t the result of administrations obvious policy of politicizing the law and ensuring Republicans are above it while Democrats are persecuted. If we believe the same Republicans who have been nothing but totally wrong…we should also believe that this has nothing to do with Bush or his policies and everything to do with Gonzales’s incompetance…not that he did anything wrong of course. That’s just the liberal media talking. Gonzales did everything right …but he’s incompetant and we should just fire him and stop looking into the actions and policies of this administration.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pmRosencrantz, who the hell is talking about stopping the investigations into the actions and policies of this administration? Waxman’s subpoenaing Rice for questions about the aluminum tubes for crissakes. There’s just a lot to get to and they seem to be working their way through it. This is an extremely corrupt administration. They’re probably on a par with the Reagan admin for corruption if not worse.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:14 pmSound Colin Powell and his staff played pass the hot ( and dumb ) tamale
April 25th, 2007 at 5:24 pmWhile I am no fan of Powell who seems to have sold his soul to carry water for the Administration, I would not be surprised that a military man of that level would be willing to embrace the man who helped craft the legalese to end-run the USMCJ in order to legally justify torture.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:24 pm#4 Of course. Gonzo has everything form his expunged DUI records back in Texas, all the through to legal writings on how to “legalize” torture, NSA wiretappings, etc. etc.
In short, things that that would not only get Bush impeached, but thrown in jail and be justly convicted as a war-criminal.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:26 pm#4…
April 25th, 2007 at 5:27 pmHe has something big that george likes to hang onto………….
It’s only a matter of time before we learn he was also a horse trainer.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:33 pmGonzo knows where the bodies are buried…he fixed Dubya’s DUI and Military records and he has been with Dubya as long as KKKarl Rove.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:34 pm#14, I share your contempt for Novak, but he’s an insider, and what he’s saying is a revealing look at how they are eating their own. For instance, what he writes about the OSC investigation:
“But there is far more to this story than a potentially illegal Power Point. It signifies a loss of fear and respect for the administration, evincing a perception that its power brokers will have no influence in Washington beyond 2008.”
He’s talking about Republican against Republican. In the article, skip the heading in bold “Bush Administration” and read from there.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:53 pmOn his FIRST day? Ouch…
April 25th, 2007 at 5:56 pmI think Gonzo has has the pictures and/or video of the
April 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pmChimpy/Rove/Gannon three-somes at the WH.
Maybe Gonzo went to the same Night Law School, Neal Boortz went to!
April 25th, 2007 at 7:47 pmGotta love the ads on Novakula’s page there: Newtie and hard arteries.
April 25th, 2007 at 8:01 pmEXTRA, EXTRA, EXTRA
I PREDICT….You heard it here first.
Gonzo will stay on until the next Congressional break (summer?), and then resign on day 1 or 2 of the break and The traitor in Chief will recess appoint a new A.G. during the break.
Possibly even ROVE himself.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:11 pm