On flight back to Texas, Gonzales cried, received a kiss from Bush.
On flight back to Texas, Gonzales cried, received a kiss from Bush.
Immediately after President Obama’s swearing-in yesterday, George W. Bush and a group of his loyalists — including Margaret Spellings, Karl Rove, and Alberto Gonzales — flew back to Texas for a “welcome home” rally. Cox News reporter Ken Herman caught up with Gonzales, who shared some of the moments from the plane ride:
GONZALES: The last thing he said as he was getting off the plane — he kissed me on the forehead — and he said, “Just stay strong.” [...]
HERMAN: Any tears shed on the plane by anybody?
GONZALES: By me, yeah. There were a few.
HERMAN: Why?
GONZALES: Just pride. Just love and appreciation for the man and what he did, Ken. I feel — being on this trip did a lot for me, in terms of just making me realize — it was a small part, but I played a part in protecting our country, and I take a great deal of pride in that.
When asked whether he still feels “good” about his service, Gonzales replied, “Absolutely. Even better.” Watch it:
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– - Yeah, and Fredo Corleone was also kissed by his brother, Michael.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:17 pmWhat…the pilot couldn’t marry Bush and Gonzo in midair in a secret ceremony? Laura would have been all for it!
January 21st, 2009 at 3:17 pmHe cried because they couldn’t fire anyone or torture anyone anymore.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:18 pmGeorge only gave Gonzo a kiss for the thirty pieces of silver.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:20 pmYes, Gonzo, there were plenty of tears here, too.
Tears of joy that the Occupation after the 2000 coupe is over, and tears of shame for what We the People allowed to happen in Our country and in Our name, tears of hope for the days to come, for the restoration of the rule of law and the Constitution.
The Perjury Police will be knocking on your door soon, Gonzo.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:21 pmPEACE
According to the news, nearly 2 MILLION people packed the National Mall and side streets for Obama’s inaugauration.
I don’t believe even half that many turned out for chimpy in 2001, or 2005. That’s JUST GOT to piss him off as well as his cheerleaders(Limpdick, Coulter, Hannity, Brillo, Malkin, Savage, et al).
January 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm“The last thing he said as he was getting off the plane — he kissed me on the forehead”
was that before or after you swallowed, you unemployed tool?
January 21st, 2009 at 3:23 pmI could swear that I saw live coverage on MSNBC.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pmGonzo got the kiss-off from Dumbya.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pmGonzo is unemployed, and Dumbya is following the Repugniscum motto – “I got mine, you’re on your own.”
They deserve one another.
May they both meet up again in the courtroom.
What a lapdog. Alberto, whose gonna give you a nice shiny coat now?
January 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pmThat’ll wear off. Once the emotions pass and the testimonies begin, none to many will be proud of their actions.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:25 pmIt seems to us, Mr. Gonzales, that you were trying to protect America from decent people. You still don’t get it, do you?
January 21st, 2009 at 3:26 pmGONZALES: Just love and appreciation for the man and what he did…like War Crimes, the Katrina response and the near destruction of the country.
GONZALES: I played a part in protecting our country…by screwing anyone in the DOJ who would not service Bush under his desk and by oking torture so Bush could torture brown people instead of just blowing up frogs in his spare time.
HERMAN: Any tears shed on the plane by anybody?
GONZALES: By me, yeah. Because I just might be held accountable for my crimes.
That’s sure a pretty smile the Gonzo, the inmates are gonna love you long time.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:27 pmJudas kissed Jesus in the garden at Gesthemany too.
Hmmmm……
January 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pmIf you look up asswipe in the dictionary you will find a picture of Gonzo.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pmHHHmmmmmmm, interesting. all the third tier trolls from yesterday must have already sequestered themselves in their bomb shelters for the next four years. good riddance to bad rubbish i say.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:29 pmWas that the kiss of DEATH ???
I hope…
January 21st, 2009 at 3:30 pmit was a small part, but I played a part in protecting our country
Don’t be so modest, Gonzo.
You played a HUUUUUGE part in dismantling the protections for civil rights that were set up in our Constitution.
Of course, since those rights date back to the Magna Carta, they probably seemed to you like quaint, “Pre-9/11 Thinking”, right?
January 21st, 2009 at 3:32 pmSeriously, all these guys deserve gold-plated knee pads. I’ve never seen anything like this outside of a recognized cult.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pmAnyone who has delt with stuborn children know that the Republican party has to go! All the way, go! They are already obstructing progress set in motion by President Obama.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pmMaybe he was crying because of the total train wreck he helped to engineer.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:36 pmAwwwwwwwwwwwww. Ain’t that just precious???
January 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pmThese are very dangerous people.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm#6 – Uncle Ho – check this out:
http://www.popsci.com/content/inauguration-day
AWESOME!!
January 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pmSeems like shrubie and his cronies are still believing their own press releases.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pmI would be in hiding for a very long time, to ashamed to show myself but then again, I care about people and we all know that the last administration only cared about themselves.
24 – Hey, LtDan – delusional much?
They have meds for that, you know. Just sayin’.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pmBBBhhwwwwaaaa……….lol….lol…rolling on floor….lol…
What a bunch of cry babies…Will Fredo also cry on the plane to the HAGUE for his war crime trial??
Worthless dweeb…..
January 21st, 2009 at 3:42 pmLTdan, man I wish I knew you. I would laugh and laugh and laugh….
You are one fcking clown little guy.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:47 pmApparently LameTroll_Dan is trying to shoulder the entire burden of stupid troll statements all by himself.
Don’t try to do too much, LTdan. Yesterday you had the help of dozens of lame troll cohorts. You can’t expect to cover all that ground alone.
You’re only one lame troll.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:50 pmAnnie, I’m not sure they do have meds that can treat this kind of delusion.
I know Rush tried to self-medicate with Oxycontin and it didn’t touch the problem.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:52 pmGONZALES: The last thing he said as he was getting off the plane — he kissed me on the forehead — and he said, “Just stay strong.”
Bush: “Because when they come for you, I’m gonna forget you just like I did that guy that ran Enron into the ground. What was his name again Kenny what?”
Just go away Elian(now before some of you get upset, this is a joke on him not my fellow Cuban buddy Elian, now back to what I was sayin) er Alberto. You were “chosen” to be the “PEOPLES LAWYER”(of course I dont believe that, but thats who he’s suppose to be), yet you “chose” to do the bidding(evil bidding), of the worst kind. You betrayed the public trust (what little we had left) in the office you held, and it will take years to get that trust back, and you proud of that? Proud because you think you protected the country? Because you “foiled” some plots, like the Sears Tower? Seriously your “PROUD” of your service PROUD!!!
You have got to be effin kidding. You know who should be proud of their service, WE who went to war on LIES to “replinish the ol coffer’s” of coward’s, chickenhawks, and arm-chair war monger’s. WE who have deployed year after year for no other reason than to wait our turn to be injured, maimed, or killed. WE who have had to sit by in silence, biting our tongues until they bled, because to speak out was as close as it was to treason. WE who sat and watched YOU turn a supposedly “independent” arm into a class reunion of Regent University wingnuts. WE, THE PEOPLE who finally woke up one cold, rainy, snowy, windy mornig and stood in lines for hours and voted. And WE, THE PEOPLE who stood outside on a cold day (you know tht cold day in hell Repuppetcans, racist, rednecks, dregs of society, said would never come) watching change, seeing ourselfs in each other, feeling a sense of relief, love, joy, and we were all PROUD.
Get your story straight fella when the feds come a callin (Texas talk I guess).
IDIOT
Change, it’s here I feel it, I am it.
RIP
January 21st, 2009 at 3:54 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, IRaq
HERMAN: Any tears shed on the plane by anybody?
GONZALES: By me, yeah. There were a few.
HERMAN: Why?
GONZALES: He gave me a job as his driver. I’ll get to drive him around Dallas, and in the truck on the ranch. He said he’d pay me $2 an hour extra to clear brush as well. Karl, that brown-nose called dibbs on being his valet. Lucky duck gets to dry him off every morning and dress him. I hate Karl.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:54 pmLeftside Annie; about that link,
January 21st, 2009 at 3:57 pmWOW!
Ape-Man Says:
Anyone who has delt with stuborn children know that the Republican party has to go! All the way, go! They are already obstructing progress set in motion by President Obama.
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twajie the troll is back folks.
dumber than ever and
racist too.
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ape man?
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January 21st, 2009 at 3:57 pmHey, LTdan, just curious — on what evidence do you base your claim that Democracy died in 2009?
Or is it just that you figure Democracy is dead when you don’t get your way?
January 21st, 2009 at 3:58 pmI really hope Bush can score Gonzo a job. Dude trashed his own reputation out of loyalty and became a completele laughingstock for Bush, the least he can do is put in a good word for him at the country club. It’s not like all the co-conspirators didn’t get set up all cushy-like.
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Glad Bush is Gone Says:
Man this site can’t let go of Bush! He’s gone get over it!
I’m sorry, did I miss the war crimes indictment? When did that happen?
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Man, I’d really like to engage LTDan, but I seriously can’t think of anything to say that would put him in a worse light than what he’s saying himself.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pmRepugniscum have delayed Eric Holder’s nomination as well as Geithner. Clinton’s vote is supposed to be later today after delays by Repugniscum.
Holder’s delay is due to clarification needed on “torture” — they must be afraid of prosecutions coming down the pike for their departed leaders.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:03 pmEwwwwwwww! I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
What’s with Gonzo, anyway? Hasn’t he found a new job yet? Or was he serving as the chief flight attendant and knob-polisher on GDumbya’s flight?
Well, at least there’s one town in Texas that’s gotten its village idiot back.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:07 pmLooks like Bush popped him in the right eye, too, unless he stuck something else in Gonzo’s eye.
Either that or that Tex/Mex Bud is totally awesome!
January 21st, 2009 at 4:07 pmLooks like Bush popped him in the right eye, too, unless he stuck something else in Gonzo’s eye.
Are you suggesting that GDumbya’s dick left that mark?
GDumbya’s dick is so small that it couldn’t raise a welt on a gnat’s ass.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pmI’ll give that Gonzo and Shrub have some grieving to do as they’ve been 8 years in DC. So I’ll give him a few tears.
However, it is also important that while I’ve heard estimates for the noonday party in DC betwen 1.9 and 2.5 million, Olbermann / Countdown reported that the Bush Homecoming were free tickets and still there were something like 1800 of them left over.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:15 pmBoy that still picture of Gonzo said it all — He’s in Man Love with Dumdya… Don’t worry Gonzo, you can have all the Man Love you can handle and more where you heading…
January 21st, 2009 at 4:16 pmLtDunce, don’t you ever get tired of being the dumbest kid in the room?
January 21st, 2009 at 4:22 pmMSNBC had Bush’s homecoming on briefly but as soon as something interesting happened in DC they switched back there.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:23 pmGitmo Al needs to get used to shedding tears. Once he’s in a Federal prison or better yet one administered by the World Court, I think he’ll be shedding more than a few tears. And I can’t wait.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:32 pmGood lord. Gonzo is more delusional than I thought he was. In Bushs company his career and future were essentially ruined, and he’s proud of it!!
Go figure.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:33 pmIf they’re smooching on the loose, just imagine what they’d do as cell mates.
January 21st, 2009 at 4:42 pmWas there any tongue involved?
January 21st, 2009 at 5:00 pmThe irony of having an Education Secretary named Miss Spellings is too rich to ignore.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:05 pmThese people really do live in their own different world, don’t they?
January 21st, 2009 at 5:10 pm“On flight back to Texas, Gonzales cried, received a kiss from Bush.”
Memo to Gonzo: That was a kiss of death, like Judas.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:10 pmWhat a sad little man he is.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:25 pm“Brokeback Prairie”
January 21st, 2009 at 5:27 pmHe’ll cry again when he discovers there are 87 Federal prisons in the United States — not counting Guantanamo.
Not sure he’ll gets to choose where he retires, though.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:46 pmHe looks drunk.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:50 pmLet’s hope the shiner Gonzo has is from running into a door and not a fist. Not many showed up for GW but Gonoz did in hopes of getting help with his many criminal matters. Fox News is sad as the other stations showed hundreds of million Americans cheering Obama/Biden and billions around the World. While the few left over suck up and those who were paid by Daddy Bush cheered George W. the idiot/drunk/druggie/war criminal.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pmleft annie @ 25
thank you for the link
I now have a new desktop image
January 21st, 2009 at 6:46 pmHe cried because he got no tongue with that kiss. He has drunk so much of the kool aid, he cannot figure out why no one will hire him.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:40 pmLTdan Says:
LoserTrollDan you are stupid. You are a coward. You are an embarassment to even trollkind. You are a liar and a fool. America can most certainly do without your ignorance. Why dont you go live in Guatemala where your black fascist heart will fit right in and they wont care quite so much how stupid you are.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:22 pmGonzales is blinded by his loyalty to the Arch War Criminal Bush, a Neocon Rethug. That is his big mistake. Gonzales would be respectable if he could do one thing, think for himself.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:03 pmrepugs just don’t get it.
courage to send other into harm.
We were safe until we got struck on chimpy’s watch.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:10 pmNice Gonzo, now go to jail.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:14 pmUncle Ho Says:
According to the news, nearly 2 MILLION people packed the National Mall and side streets for Obama’s inaugauration.
I don’t believe even half that many turned out for chimpy in 2001, or 2005. That’s JUST GOT to piss him off as well as his cheerleaders(Limpdick, Coulter, Hannity, Brillo, Malkin, Savage, et al).
There were cheers all over the world.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:15 pm.
… WHAT?!?! No tongue?
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January 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 amAs an American of Latin descent, I would like to point out that among the Latin community not only is Gonzalez considered a traitor to America and the Latin community, for his actions with the Bush Administration; but as well, he is considered an embarassment and as a community we hope justice eventually catches up with this man.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:00 amThe “plane” voyage of the damned. I really wanted to see FBI agents walk down to Bush, Cheney, et. al. and slap them in shackles. I think keeping Gitmo open for six months just for them would have been perfect justice.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:02 pmA big wet kiss with tongues?
Oy
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm