Wolfowitz will not resign today.
By on May 16th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Wolfowitz will not resign today.
ABC News is now reporting that “Paul Wolfowitz will not resign and would rather push the issue of his tenure to a vote by the World Bank board, his lawyer says.” Earlier today, ABC reported that Wolfowitz would likely “resign this afternoon.”
UPDATE: The World Bank Board has adjourned tonight with no deal made about Wolfowitz.
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Comes as no surprise.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pmUp or down, let’s have it.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:53 pmWolfowitz will only resign when the Administration gaurentees him another job.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:54 pmOf course he won’t. It’s too late to resign and save face. He has to tough it out as long as he can.
Hey Chimp, make sure you continue standing behind your man.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:56 pmThis is rididulous!
May 16th, 2007 at 5:57 pmDon’t ask him to resign again — fire him now.
The man is mad. And the Great Indecider just cowers in his Oval Office wishing people would stop expecting him to do something. “It’s not my job. Command? I’ve got a War Czar for that. Justice? I’ve got Alberto to keep us out of jail. And money? Well, I can always get a job working for the World Bank.”
May 16th, 2007 at 5:58 pmAs we speak Wolfowitz is negotiating a severence package that will end up being much more lucrative than if he had stayed on at the World Bank. He’s just another neocon suckling off of the Government teet.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:59 pmLOL! He’s not mad…. he’s a Zionist with an agenda.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:00 pmJesus, getting rid of a Goptard is like trying to get dogshit off the bottom of your Nikes; no matter how hard you scrape out the little pits, the shoe still smells.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:01 pmNow would be a good time for his wife to file for divorce, as Wolfie is likely to walk off with a small fortune. Wolfie must have taken upper management training from Nardelli.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:06 pmJesus, getting rid of a Goptard is like trying to get dogshit off the bottom of your Nikes; no matter how hard you scrape out the little pits, the shoe still smells.
Comment by snarkmaster — May 16, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
But his face looks more like goose shit. I guess you never know until you step in it.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:06 pmThe FT says Wolfie is negotiating right now on his resignation package.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:10 pmFIRE HIM NOW. HE FIRED IRAQ, WHY SHOULDN’T HE BE FIRED?
May 16th, 2007 at 6:18 pmHe is making sure he pillages the treasury for as much as he can, for repukes it is all about money and power, screw the little people, they mean nothing to them.
Hating the Repukian Money Grabbers daily
May 16th, 2007 at 6:23 pmIt makes you respect Nixon. Kinda. When he saw the writing on the wall or, ah, the Congressional register, he resigned rather than be disgraced publicly.
The Bush Clowns seem to think resignation, redeployment, even saying “I’m sorry” is so humiliating that they’d rather be dragged through every public forum rather than quit.
I don’t get it. Where’s their pride? Their sense of honor? They’re like Gollum going after the Ring all the way into the Crack of Doom. Pathetic.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:26 pmComment by david — May 16, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
Compared to these guys Nixon looks like an American hero. He at least didn’t take down the whole country with him.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:30 pmThey only shame they have is if they don’t enrich themselves to the maximum possible extent. If they even leave a penny on the table, they get razzed at the next neo-con convention.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:33 pmI’m convinced Wolfowitz got the gig at the World Bank because Dick-head Cheney wanted him there. Bush throws his “unwavering” support towards Wolfie because he can feel the stare of Cheney. The same goes for John Strap-on’s appointment to the UN.
I cannot remember in United States history where the VP wielded much more power than the president. The past seven years of pure train wreck is thanks to monsters like Cheney. Bush is merely the figurehead.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:50 pmWell, since he refused the deal they offered him, I think they should fire him and give him nothing. That’s what he deserves.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:51 pmI don’t get it. Where’s their pride? Their sense of honor? They’re like Gollum going after the Ring all the way into the Crack of Doom. Pathetic.
Comment by david
They don’t even understand the concept of honor, much less have any.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:05 pmHow much you wanna bet…
…this sh*t wouldn’t be happening if…
…the World Bank were headquartered in say…
…Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bei Jing, Seoul, Manila, or Caracas…
…somehow them foreigners know how to get rid of their sh*t…
…without a lot of hand wringing or fanfare…
May 16th, 2007 at 7:30 pmWolfoshitz has too much dirt on this administration. The scumbag will play them like a violin until he gets the deal he wants without any criminal indictments.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:35 pmJust fire him, instead of wasting more time and money. He obviously has no interest in saving face and won’t resign. And then sue his ass for the money he stole.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:37 pmWorld Bank board must fire Wolfowitz > PERIOD. He must not be allowed to weasel out of what he did. He has sullied the bank’s international reputation.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:53 pmOMFG!!!
I am spitting mad right now.
I expected this nightmarish chapter to be over by now, but no – - another denial assbag.
How dare he even think he deserves to stay there???
Excuse me, but I have to go scream into my pillow or something…
GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
May 16th, 2007 at 8:05 pmI believe there is something here that everyone is missing.
As I look back over the virtually uninterrupted criminality of the Republicon politicians since the Nixon Era, it seems to me that the lesson they all took home was “never admit guilt.” Since the Reagan administration, no Republicon in my memory has ever admitted guilt, even when the evidence of their wrong-doing has been laid out before the eyes of the entire world. I take this as evidence that within their Straussian paradigm, Nixon’s resignation is seen as a huge political blunder, not as the act of an honorable and virtuous man. To me, this has great significance for the American political landscape, for it means that public honor is dead.
Think about it.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:59 pmWolfowitz -THE WOLF AT THE BANK.
May 16th, 2007 at 10:35 pmEveryday, poor countries struggle with rampant poverty, widespread disease and massive illiteracy. On the west side of the world at H Street, NW DC, the greedy wolf which is supposed to be at helm of eradicating such global problems entertains its mistress. On the South side of the world at dark continent street, approximately 14 million people die annually from poverty-related diseases.
The conservative Wolf has overreacted to the biblical scripture “man eateth where he workethâ€
What a shame!!!! Just Resign….