Comments on: Why Gonzales finally quit. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:14:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Buckles http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4059525 Buckles Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:08:20 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4059525 So Fredo was finally voted off the island for the good of the party. How very... neocon. He's ineffective and damaging to the nation, but that's okay, as long as he stays as loyal as a puppy. Perhaps they should have had Michael Vick in the WH to train him... Fredo -- attack! It's ironic, and I would say, poetic justice, that their quest to change American democracy to suit their own agenda is the source of their downfall. It would be nice if they'd learn a lesson in this, but I've given up hope for any dimming of the light they shine upon themselves. So Fredo was finally voted off the island for the good of the party. How very… neocon. He’s ineffective and damaging to the nation, but that’s okay, as long as he stays as loyal as a puppy. Perhaps they should have had Michael Vick in the WH to train him… Fredo — attack!

It’s ironic, and I would say, poetic justice, that their quest to change American democracy to suit their own agenda is the source of their downfall. It would be nice if they’d learn a lesson in this, but I’ve given up hope for any dimming of the light they shine upon themselves.

]]> By: Chocolate Jesus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4059156 Chocolate Jesus Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:03:49 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4059156 >about his unquestionable right to hire and fire > US attorneys at will without accountability shut up methead meagan.. use your superb legal skillz... could he fire someone for being black? for being hindu? just because you can fire for no reason does not mean you can fire for every reason that could exist... >about his unquestionable right to hire and fire
> US attorneys at will without accountability

shut up methead meagan.. use your superb legal skillz… could he fire someone for being black? for being hindu? just because you can fire for no reason does not mean you can fire for every reason that could exist…

]]> By: Bruno Hauptmann http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057985 Bruno Hauptmann Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:43:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057985 Now now, as the delusional decider himself would say; This is America. We have rights and freedoms, and an American Nazi Party. They have a right to support their fascism and hawk their propaganda. Yes it is dangerous, but how would a democracy outlaw the republicans. Sure, it one would think in a country such as our there wouldn't be such a problem, but there are always those who want power for the sake of it, and lust to tell others how to live in order to make themselves feel better about themselves. Poor Senator Craig but one example. So remember, sure the republicans should be outlawed, thrown in jail, barred from voting, and otherwise shunned from society, but we must protect our freedoms at all costs. Even if it means allowing republicans to have a political party. Now now, as the delusional decider himself would say; This is America. We have rights and freedoms, and an American Nazi Party. They have a right to support their fascism and hawk their propaganda. Yes it is dangerous, but how would a democracy outlaw the republicans. Sure, it one would think in a country such as our there wouldn’t be such a problem, but there are always those who want power for the sake of it, and lust to tell others how to live in order to make themselves feel better about themselves. Poor Senator Craig but one example. So remember, sure the republicans should be outlawed, thrown in jail, barred from voting, and otherwise shunned from society, but we must protect our freedoms at all costs. Even if it means allowing republicans to have a political party.

]]> By: Justice http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057534 Justice Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:22:53 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057534 mako maniac, it is sheeple like you who are incapable of thinking for themselves and looking into the FACTS that allowed the rise of the Nazis and Bushies are NO DIFFERENT. You are completely wrong to believe the propaganda Fox feeds you and think this is a "witch hunt" at the DOJ!! That is absurd, the President and Gonzo DESTROYED the DOJ by turning it into an arm of the WH. You are WRONG when you say AG's "serve at the pleasure of the president" that is true UNLESS they are beig fired for NOT PROSECUTING TRUMPED UP CASES against Dems. THAT is why they were fired, they would NOT go along with the local Republican's wishes to try to bring bogus charges right before an election. Do your own homework, find out the FACTS before spouting your stupid support Bush mantra. He is the WORST president ever and has KILLED thousands of our beloved troops for OIL, not to "bring democracy to Iraq" and he LIED TO YOU about Iraq and WMD and he LIED TO YOU about ANY conneciton at all between Iraq and 9/11 and you believed it. You have a civic duty to fight threats to our Constitution "AT HOME AND ABROAD" the biggest terrorists we are fighting today are IN THE WHITE HOUSE. You Bushie supporters will go down in history like the Nazi sympathizers because that is exactly what you are doing, supporting a criminal who has illegally invaded an innocent country and displaced or killed OVER A MILLION Iraqis! mako maniac, it is sheeple like you who are incapable of thinking for themselves and looking into the FACTS that allowed the rise of the Nazis and Bushies are NO DIFFERENT. You are completely wrong to believe the propaganda Fox feeds you and think this is a “witch hunt” at the DOJ!!
That is absurd, the President and Gonzo DESTROYED the DOJ by turning it into an arm of the WH. You are WRONG when you say AG’s “serve at the pleasure of the president” that is true UNLESS they are beig fired for NOT PROSECUTING TRUMPED UP CASES against Dems. THAT is why they were fired, they would NOT go along with the local Republican’s wishes to try to bring bogus charges right before an election.
Do your own homework, find out the FACTS before spouting your stupid support Bush mantra. He is the WORST president ever and has KILLED thousands of our beloved troops for OIL, not to “bring democracy to Iraq”
and he LIED TO YOU about Iraq and WMD and he LIED TO YOU about ANY conneciton at all between Iraq and 9/11 and you believed it.
You have a civic duty to fight threats to our Constitution “AT HOME AND ABROAD”
the biggest terrorists we are fighting today are IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
You Bushie supporters will go down in history like the Nazi sympathizers because that is exactly what you are doing, supporting a criminal who has illegally invaded an innocent country and displaced or killed OVER A MILLION Iraqis!

]]> By: Bobwurst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057389 Bobwurst Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:24:51 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057389 randi says the rumor is out that LIEberman is up for replacing gonzo… the conn. repug governor will name a repug to replace LIEberman and there goes any dem majority in the senate… just reportin’… … Comment by katy What happens if he never gets out of committee? Is he still a "senator" until he is confirmed? Can this be delayed until after the election? randi says the rumor is out that LIEberman is up for replacing gonzo…
the conn. repug governor will name a repug to replace LIEberman and there goes any dem majority in the senate…

just reportin’…
…

Comment by katy

What happens if he never gets out of committee? Is he still a “senator” until he is confirmed? Can this be delayed until after the election?

]]> By: Anonymouse http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057388 Anonymouse Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:24:03 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057388 I wonder whether critical Congressional or Senate support for the latest FISA update was contingent on the AG's resignation. I wonder whether critical Congressional or Senate support for the latest FISA update was contingent on the AG’s resignation.

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057359 katy Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:13:09 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057359 just heard: randi says the rumor is out that LIEberman is up for replacing gonzo... the conn. repug governor will name a repug to replace LIEberman and there goes any dem majority in the senate... just reportin'... ... just heard:

randi says the rumor is out that LIEberman is up for replacing gonzo…
the conn. repug governor will name a repug to replace LIEberman and there goes any dem majority in the senate…

just reportin’…
…

]]> By: Raven http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057150 Raven Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:10:16 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057150 "Why Gonzales finally quit." Because we made a big fuss. “Why Gonzales finally quit.”

Because we made a big fuss.

]]> By: Bobwurst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057133 Bobwurst Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:03:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057133 "you are a true patriot. Comment by Bobwurst — September 4, 2007 @ 2:49 pm Just needed to update that to reflect the truth! Comment by mako-matic —" So not only do you hear what you want to hear, you read what you want to read. that's why when bush says 9-11 poop your diapers. that explains why you're a republican. thank you. “you are a true patriot.
Comment by Bobwurst — September 4, 2007 @ 2:49 pm
Just needed to update that to reflect the truth!
Comment by mako-matic —”

So not only do you hear what you want to hear, you read what you want to read. that’s why when bush says 9-11 poop your diapers. that explains why you’re a republican. thank you.

]]> By: dlet http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057125 dlet Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:59:36 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057125 Why Gonzales finally quit. Because he finally realized how stupid he is? Why Gonzales finally quit.

Because he finally realized how stupid he is?

]]> By: mako-matic http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057105 mako-matic Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:52:19 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057105 you are a true patriot. Comment by Bobwurst — September 4, 2007 @ 2:49 pm Just needed to update that to reflect the truth! you are a true patriot.

Comment by Bobwurst — September 4, 2007 @ 2:49 pm

Just needed to update that to reflect the truth!

]]> By: Bobwurst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057102 Bobwurst Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:51:00 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057102 re 31, we saw it the first time, idiot. re 31,

we saw it the first time, idiot.

]]> By: Bobwurst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057094 Bobwurst Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:49:03 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057094 "Libs enabled Gonazales and made it almost impossible for Bush to get rid of him without hurting the country by paralyzing the judiciary with investigations and witch hunts Comment by mako-matic" this is pure crap, pure whiny republican can dish it out but can't take it crap. If this is the case, then what changed that allowed gonzo to go now? And how exactly has the judiciary been paralzed? right thinking americans don't want the executive branch to be able to intrude on our private lives without a good reason. that is exactly what bush is doing. you are a stooge. “Libs enabled Gonazales and made it almost impossible for Bush to get rid of him without hurting the country by paralyzing the judiciary with investigations and witch hunts

Comment by mako-matic”

this is pure crap, pure whiny republican can dish it out but can’t take it crap. If this is the case, then what changed that allowed gonzo to go now? And how exactly has the judiciary been paralzed? right thinking americans don’t want the executive branch to be able to intrude on our private lives without a good reason. that is exactly what bush is doing. you are a stooge.

]]> By: Mohammedloveshimsomeprogressives http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057085 Mohammedloveshimsomeprogressives Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:46:02 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057085 Gonzales quit because he was a feeble AG, continually permitting insolent and absurd Demoncrats to berate him about his unquestionable right to hire and fire US attorneys at will without accountability…as they’re ALL political hires who serve at the pleasure of Bush. Instead of bashing assuming Dems who were forging a scandal out of nothing with this information and citing BJ Clinton’s firing of 93 attorneys as precedent, Gonzales oftentimes appeared under fire when he DIDN’T need to be. Still, Gonzales deserves some praise for achievements in his tenure, the most prominent being that he was able to continue the domestic “spying” program and stay on until FISA was extended and updated. Because, as progressives know but don’t admit, without Bush’s domestic surveillance, all traitor Americans (like TP readers) would be able to help terrorists hurt the US since there wouldn’t be a careful tracking of their actions. Gonzales quit because he was a feeble AG, continually permitting insolent and absurd Demoncrats to berate him about his unquestionable right to hire and fire US attorneys at will without accountability…as they’re ALL political hires who serve at the pleasure of Bush. Instead of bashing assuming Dems who were forging a scandal out of nothing with this information and citing BJ Clinton’s firing of 93 attorneys as precedent, Gonzales oftentimes appeared under fire when he DIDN’T need to be. Still, Gonzales deserves some praise for achievements in his tenure, the most prominent being that he was able to continue the domestic “spying” program and stay on until FISA was extended and updated. Because, as progressives know but don’t admit, without Bush’s domestic surveillance, all traitor Americans (like TP readers) would be able to help terrorists hurt the US since there wouldn’t be a careful tracking of their actions.

]]> By: Grand Moff Texan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057084 Grand Moff Texan Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:46:01 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057084 What in the world did TP do to deserve GAY JULIA'S CEASING OCTAGENERIANS? . What in the world did TP do to deserve GAY JULIA’S CEASING OCTAGENERIANS?
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]]> By: mako-matic http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057064 mako-matic Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:37:58 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057064 Libs enabled Gonazales and made it almost impossible for Bush to get rid of him without hurting the country by paralyzing the judiciary with investigations and witch hunts Libs enabled Gonazales and made it almost impossible for Bush to get rid of him without hurting the country by paralyzing the judiciary with investigations and witch hunts

]]> By: Bobwurst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057054 Bobwurst Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:33:03 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057054 The following is an example of unintended irony: "HeyooOOOoOOoOOOooOo Mr. President!!! Thanks for your service as Commander in Chief. You truly support our troops, from a proud US citizen. You have restored the honor and integrity to the presidential office. Americans can once again hold their heads high. We are the greatest free nation on earth. Comment by Bob " The following is an example of unintended irony:

“HeyooOOOoOOoOOOooOo Mr. President!!!

Thanks for your service as Commander in Chief. You truly support our troops, from a proud US citizen. You have restored the honor and integrity to the presidential office. Americans can once again hold their heads high.
We are the greatest free nation on earth.

Comment by Bob “

]]> By: Bobwurst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057050 Bobwurst Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:31:40 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057050 Ted Bundy looked like the “boy next door”. Comment by bilbobaggins Wasn't bundy a registered republican? Ted Bundy looked like the “boy next door”.

Comment by bilbobaggins

Wasn’t bundy a registered republican?

]]> By: bilbobaggins http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057045 bilbobaggins Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:29:23 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057045 You know what is really scary about the resident trolls. They really think that we give a shit what they have to say. They really think that they are going to influence our thinking with their lies and half-truths. They truly are delusional. I wonder if it shows in their daily life? Or do they look like normal people? They probably do look like normal people. After all, people said that Ted Bundy looked like the "boy next door". You know what is really scary about the resident trolls. They really think that we give a shit what they have to say. They really think that they are going to influence our thinking with their lies and half-truths. They truly are delusional. I wonder if it shows in their daily life? Or do they look like normal people? They probably do look like normal people. After all, people said that Ted Bundy looked like the “boy next door”.

]]> By: dlet http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-4057044 dlet Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:28:57 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/why-gonzales-finally-quit/#comment-4057044 I’m about to post that one on my blog, thanks! Comment by GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR OCTAVIANVS And into the void it goes...never to be seen again by any rational human animal. I’m about to post that one on my blog, thanks!
Comment by GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR OCTAVIANVS

And into the void it goes…never to be seen again by any rational human animal.

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