Goodling to bring down Gonzales?
By on May 14th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Goodling to bring down Gonzales?
The Legal Times has more on the importance of hearing from Monica “Keys to the Kingdom” Goodling: “Though there may be a feeling that Gonzales has at last stemmed the tide against him, it looks premature to declare victory before Goodling says what she knows about the attorney general’s and the White House’s involvement in the firings. ‘Before people get too cocky about the attorney general surviving, [they] need to sit back and await that event,’ says a senior administration official close to the investigation.”
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You straight Gonzy, we paid dat b!tch off. She ain't gunna talk to nobody
May 14th, 2007 at 11:50 amI popping the popcorn.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:51 amhow lovely that would be... a fundamentalist christian graduate of regent university bringing down gonzo... empty wheel over at the next hurrah has some serious doubts about whether what she's going to say will make any difference, however, but a guy can dream, can't he...?
And, yes, I DO take it personally
May 14th, 2007 at 11:52 amI won't hold my breath
May 14th, 2007 at 11:57 amPlease, she isn't going to say anything whatsoever to nail Speedy.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:58 amShe may not say much, but I want to see her up there, sweating away. She ruined a lot of people's careers. I want to see what that sniveling Little-Miss-Know-It-All has to say.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:10 pmLet's hope that Regent University degree pays off when young Monica promises to tell the truth.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pmI disagree with the whole framing of this matter, expertly done by another slimeball "senior adminsitration official".... As if the incompetence, malfeasance, and arrogance that was the AG's testimony is not stand-alone disgusting and violative enough to call for his resignation or impeachment??? We have to wait for whatever bull Goodling plans to peddle, and if she says "it was all my doing....AG Gonzales had no part in it..." we all say "okay, I guess he can keep his job...." BULLSH!T on that. He is a liar and incompetent and his lies and obstruction on this are at a minimum worthy of impeachment.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:18 pmSo, if she isn't going to say anything of any consequence, why would she need immunity?
Based on what we know so far, either she did something that broke the law, or somebody else did.
We're not talking about the janitor at the Dept. of Education. We're talking about someone who is a lawyer who should have a vague idea of what breaking the law, and needing immunity, is all about.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:18 pmEvery question posed to Monica has to be followed with "remember you are under OATH" and the penalties for each count of purjury that you commit is.... and WE WILL PROSECUTE TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW.
Maybe that way the will get something close to the truth from the right wing zealot.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:20 pmShe has to spill the beans or her immunity will go out the window. That is the deal. She spills the beans on Gonzo and she gets immunity. If she doesn't spill the beans, she doesn't get immunity and Congress learned from Ollie North. She won't be able to slink away the way he did.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:23 pmThink she knows immunity from prosecution is only good in this life? Or will she, "lie now, repent later" ?
May 14th, 2007 at 12:23 pm"We’re talking about someone who is a lawyer ..."
May 14th, 2007 at 12:24 pmPardon, but the quality of the legal education at God U. probably makes that phrase a bit of a stretch.
#11 - Spudge
Do you know for sure that's the deal she has? I haven't seen anything laying out the deal.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:26 pmMonica is loyal and faithful. She would die burned at the stake before she will tell the truth that would any way hurt her god, GWB.
It's a Christian thang, true to your faith is more important than the truth.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:42 pmShe (Goodling) is such a christian that a subponea was necessary to get her testimony.f-ing unbelieveable.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pmJust because she is christian doesnt mean she wont lie her ass off... she will rename it as something else so it is ok.... like "casting the answers in the best possible light" ...its still lieing but if you can trick yourself into thinking otherwise...
May 14th, 2007 at 12:50 pmI have no idea what you think is going to happen, because she can basically say that "Rove and Gonzo met daily for three weeks discussing how to fire people who wouldn't comply with the Bush Administration's desire to influence elections, knowingly removed Justice personnel who were investigating criminal behavior by party fundraisers, and every Thursday would tip over the statue of Justice and snort coke off her bosom through the hollowed-out wing bones of bald eagles" and STILL no one would do anything.
It's not time for impeachment, it's PAST time for impeachment.
Get a spine. Defend your Constitution.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:50 pmYou will never see anybody this young and outside a mental health facility with a poorer memory than hers. Sgt. Schultz, meet General Goodling.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:55 pmShe may not say much, but I want to see her up there, sweating away. She ruined a lot of people’s careers. I want to see what that sniveling Little-Miss-Know-It-All has to say.
Comment by midwestblue — May 14, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
I'm with you midwestblue. I want to see her up there revealing how brilliant these Regent grads are. And if she has any shame, suffering for her own incompetency.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:55 pmMonica is loyal and faithful. She would die burned at the stake before she will tell the truth that would any way hurt her god, GWB.
Comment by nanlichi — May 14, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
Burned at the stake, that's good too.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:58 pmwon't happen
May 14th, 2007 at 1:03 pmGonzales himself is cocky about his chances and he knows what Goodling knows. If he feels he will survive Goodling's testimony he probably will. He would know.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:23 pmThis woman will say absolutely nothing that is going to further incriminate Gonzo or anyone else at Justice. These people do business by lying and covering for each other.
She will stonewall this to death. Her own credentials are so flimsy that I can't believe she reached the level she did.
The Judiciary Committee has to keep the heat on her and I mean a very high flame--but remember who sits on the Minority on the Committee--most of them are born again whack jobs.
Until this administration came in and they were exposed for what they really are I never cared about someone else's faith because it had no bearing on my life. Well, all that has changed. I have contempt for these evangelicals that almost borders on hatred. They have proven to us time and again, what phonies they really are. They are "do as I say, not as I do" types and I loathe that.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:32 pmI will believe it when I see it -- because it appears to me that NOTHING will bring down this administration. No crime, no criminal, no amount of corruption or greed, no exposed lie, no illegal war, no destruction of the Constitution, no abuse of power, no neglect of domestic emergencies --- nothing, nothing, nothing is going to bring down this cabal of evil that operate inside the White House.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:04 pmThe Repugs are involved, the Dems are ineffective, and the press is complicit -- Bush&Co will continue until their term ends in January 2009 - and then we will still have to deal with the repugs that remain, and the laws that have been altered under this regime.
Cry, the Beloved Country. I never thought 20 years ago when my students and I discussed this novel by Alan Paton about South Africa in my high school classes that the title would come to mind as a significant comment concerning my own country. Reading the comment above by Marie, I can only say: cry the beloved country. Why, oh why did we allow two presidential elections to be stolen without any significant protest? Why are we not up in arms--figuratively if not literally--crying out to make sure it does not happen again in 2008?
May 14th, 2007 at 4:38 pm"there may be a feeling that Gonzales has at last stemmed the tide against him..."
Huh? We haven't even begun the impeachment proceedings.
Come to think of it, why not?
May 14th, 2007 at 8:51 pmHaving source who is "a senior administration official close to the investigation" is like having a source who is a defendant who happens to be "close to the jury."
This sounds like manipulation.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:52 pm