Alberto Gonzales lands a teaching position at Texas Tech.
By on Jul 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Alberto Gonzales lands a teaching position at Texas Tech.
Life has been tough for Alberto Gonzales since he stepped down as President Bush’s attorney general. He was, for a while, “unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster.” Gonzales blamed his bad luck on the “rough economy.” Last June he was finally able to get hired “to provide assistance to a special master on a patent case.” The Austin-American Statesman now reports that Gonzales has also “lined up a fall-semester teaching spot at Texas Tech University.” He will be working in the political science department on a “’special topics’ course on contemporary issues in the executive branch.” (HT: Wonkette)
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this guy isnt even a good liar, let alone a good lawyer..
July 7th, 2009 at 3:48 pmBushco welfare in action.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:50 pmTorture Techniques?
Lying 101?
Butt Kissing Basics?
How to improve your memory?
Oh, TEXAS TECH…someone must of pulled some strings for poor old Gonzo.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:51 pm‘Enhanced Interrogation 101′?
‘Firing for Political Advancement 203′?
Only in Texas.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:53 pmAvoiding Prosecution for War Crimes 101
July 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pmYou’re a faster draw, Bucky Boy.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:55 pmAnd thus I will never hire an attorney from Texas. What can they know?
July 7th, 2009 at 3:56 pmThe Austin-American Statesman now reports that Gonzales has also “lined up a fall-semester teaching spot at Texas Tech University.” He will be working in the political science department on a “’special topics’ course on contemporary issues in the executive branch.”
How To Make Up Shit For The Executive Branch – 101 ……
July 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pmLet no one say America isn’t the land of opportunity.
Where else can war criminals get hired to teach?
July 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pmToo bad McCain didn’t win because I’m sure Princess Sarah would have wanted him to serve in that Department of Law.
I wonder if Georgie’s daddy (ie the Carlyle Group) is having to subsidize Gonzo’s salary?
PEACE
July 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pmMaybe Alberto can preach torture, treason and tyranny. After all, that’s what he practiced for the Bush gangster regime…
July 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pmTT should be stripped of all accreditation.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:58 pmIt least the students will be able to learn how to say “I don’t recall” with a straight face..
July 7th, 2009 at 3:59 pmThings are expected to get tougher for Gonzales when he ‘can’t recall’ which University to go to for his new job.
If justice was served, Gonzales would be behind bars for the rest of his life, then he would never have to remember anything ever again.
it case we can’t recall here’s a video…
July 7th, 2009 at 4:00 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQEQeaZDRE
Well if he has to live in Lubbuck Texas, there is some justice in that.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pmPolitical science at Texas Tech…..
Is that a business class?
July 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pmOh, to be a fly on the wall in that faculty lounge the first time Gonzo walks in! I cannot imagine his new colleagues are enthusiastic to have him associated with their school.
PEACE
July 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pmIs a special topics course for special needs students or necessary to compete in the Special Olympics?
July 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pmnever have i been MORE in favor of carrying a gun on campus
July 7th, 2009 at 4:02 pmWell just wait, when the next Republican president takes office they’ll just bring all those guys back in to one position or another. Hell we had guys from Nixon and Reagans administration serving with Bush… these guys NEVER go away.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:02 pmand hes still more succesful than you lefty loons posting on this pathetic sorros funded conservative smear blog. This isnt even a progressive blog, this blog just aims to make fun of conservatives and take things they said out of CONTEXT.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:03 pmHe cannot get a job at law firms because of the torture issue. No firm wants to have him on the payroll because of the possibility of a criminal action. Gonzalez would be the kiss of death for any law firm.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:04 pmIm sure he will have a course on how to find WMD`s that dont exsist.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pmHe cannot get a job at law firms because of the torture issue.
The way things are going, he and John and hizzoner are working on fixing that for the next generation so they don’t have to be discriminated against.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:06 pmDid FoxNews run out of time slots? He was a prize flunkie for Bush/Cheney.
Isn’t Bob Jones University or Liberty University hiring?
Oh yeah, wrong color…
July 7th, 2009 at 4:06 pmParents are paying a criminal to teach their kids. I hope the students get pictures of Al before he is charged with War Crimes and sent to a Foreign Jail.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:06 pm“Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch”
July 7th, 2009 at 4:06 pmWeek 1: Power consolidation
Week 2: Lying for dollars
Week 3: You say “torture”, I say “enhanced interrogation”
Week 4: Fire at will
Week 5: The danger of “recall”
Week 6: Final exam (Republican oath signers get “A”)
a little job for a little man with little integrity.
very fitting.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:06 pm“out of CONTEXT”?..please explain the context in which we took alberto gonzo out of? soros funded website? you think the amount of traffic TP gets requires a billionaire to support? wow, how many hits you think this place gets, anyway..?
July 7th, 2009 at 4:07 pmThe Young Republican Says:
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and hes still more succesful than you lefty loons posting on this pathetic sorros funded conservative smear blog. This isnt even a progressive blog, this blog just aims to make fun of conservatives and take things they said out of CONTEXT.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Being recognized as one part of the worst administration in US history is a “SUCCESS” to you ?
Yeah , I suppose it would be , jackass………..
July 7th, 2009 at 4:07 pmThe teaching post is just a temporary gig until the Bush library is complete and Gonzo takes up the job of greeter and maintenance manager.
The other good thing for Al, is that this teaching assignment won’t interfere with his paper route.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:09 pmCome on. Gonzales has to be checking out the scene up in Lubbuck, just in case Agent Dub has to relocate to a more rural but sporty area in Texas.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:09 pmMaybe they hired him as part of the handicapped program. Terminal loss of memory is so sad in such a young person. Surprising he can remember enough to teach unless he is teaching how to forget. Republican wannabes would sign up for that course.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:11 pmI find it odd that the wealthy cabal who he gave total loyalty to at the cost of his reputation didn’t score him a sweetheart job with some tony law firm somewhere. That’s just not cricket.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pmWhy does the YOUNG REPIGGIE spend so many useless hours on this blog, when he could be taking the chance of a lifetime to enlist for military service in Afghanistan?
Has the younger branch of the repiggie movement gotten so lazy, unmotivated and scared that they just can’t do military service any more?
Isn’t this the same crowd that is just aching for a war with Iran?
ENLIST ALREADY, LITTLE REPIGGIE.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pmCountry of “Texas”
July 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pmStaffing up for the big day
Our country’s boneyard
Yes libs keep focusing on the failures of bush while the CURRENT president messes up even more.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pmThe Young Republican Says:
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Yes libs keep focusing on the failures of bush while the CURRENT president messes up even more.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Bush was zero-for-8-years ; gonna’ be tough for anyone to ever TOP that dubious record , tool……..
July 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pmCome-on Gonzo – An honest, humble, tell-all book would rake in millions! You’d probably have to move out of Texas and change your name, but I could think of worse things.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pmThe Young Republican Says:
…..and he’s black, too.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:18 pmThey’re making up a class for him to teach? If he was in jail, he wouldn’t have to worry about finding a job. This is too ridiculous!
July 7th, 2009 at 4:20 pmonly a Hitler Youth(Young Rethuglican) would be defending a war criminal.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:20 pmrastaman Says:
never have i been MORE in favor of carrying a gun on campus
Flagged.
Dude, the last thing we want is for people to encourage another campus shooting like the Virginia Tech massacre, even if this IS in jest.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:25 pmConsidering that lawyers of all ilk are looking at the Gonzo riles and finding them lacking, is he really the person you want edjumakating our children ?
Is our children learnin ‘ ?
July 7th, 2009 at 4:25 pmLet’s see:Since he lost his job with the cheney administration, the only job he could get was as a teaching assistant.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:31 pmYep, thats successful for someone who supposedly passed tghe law exam.
And moderators, why is the young racist still here?
tony and lido
LOL…Well I guess there is some justice..Was just remembering some country western song from awhile ago.”God bless Texas”, can’t remember the group or word’s but think it is appropiate for all the bible thumping texacans…Ya all are going to need the big guy in the sky to help your kid’s after this screw up is done…P. B. & J
July 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pmThat town sucked when I lived there, now it sucks a little worse.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pmHey, lets all give Alberto a break Someone has to hand out cookies and milk to the pre-schoolers.After all our children are the future of our country.He went from being that idiot bushes attorney general to handing out cookies and milk to pre-schoolers,the man just got a promotion.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:42 pmIt will be an easy class to pass. The correct answer to every question on the finals test will be:
d. I don’t recall
July 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pmweasel law tactics 101
July 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pmHow to find ways around the constitution by Prof Alberto Gonzales.
“Special Topics Course”? Definitely sounds like someone at Texas Tech was instructed to find something to keep poor Al busy.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:53 pmI’m sure you didn’t mean to admit that Bush was a failure. You should be more careful. You inadvertantly told the truth.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:58 pmGitmo Al will fit right in at this cow college. He’ll be preaching to the Repignican choir there. Luckily he wont be at a major university where he could have influence on real future leaders of the nation. At Texas Tech his influence will probably be restricted to the future chairman of the Throckmorton County Board of Supervisors.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:58 pmWhat? He’s not teaching Auto Shop?
Oh.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pmWhat an embarrassment. My old school. Until now, it was a good one.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pmHe will be working in the political science department on a “’special topics’ course on contemporary issues in the executive branch.”
‘Special topics’ is code for obstruction of justice.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pmThe Young Republican Says:
Yes libs keep focusing on the failures of bush while the CURRENT president messes up even more.
I keep wondering about that handle the troll has selected. Do you suppose it really is The young Republican? I mean, I would have guessed there were three or four at least, but maybe things really have gotten that bad for the GOP.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pmNo wonder the poor sap has never got laid.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:03 pmshoeless Says:
No wonder the poor sap has never got laid.
Well, yeah, and there’s that whole drooling thing. And the back hair . . .
July 7th, 2009 at 5:07 pmThe Young Republican Says:
Yes libs keep focusing on the failures of bush while the CURRENT president messes up even more.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:32 pm============================================================
Weird that I read yesterday the current President had gotten more done in the first five months than any administration in the previous fifty years. I guess those homeschooled young republicans do not deal with reality any better than thos old white boy failures of the Raygun, Daddy Bush, and Baby Bush regimes. Get lost loser. Your party will never be in the majority in your life time. Get use to being on the bench loser.
One last lonely young Republican. Standing on the bank of the Cuyahoga River, bag of Cheetos in hand, screaming his defiance to the world.
We could probably help with the screaming part if we offered Milk of Magnesia or something.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:33 pmMaybe he could get a job as a TA for Berto?
July 7th, 2009 at 5:35 pmThe Young Republican Says:
and hes still more succesful than you lefty loons posting on this pathetic sorros funded conservative smear blog. This isnt even a progressive blog, this blog just aims to make fun of conservatives and take things they said out of CONTEXT.
“he.. suc…s…sorros..fun…co…b. conservatives…take CO…X”
Like this?
July 7th, 2009 at 5:39 pmNot all republicans are wingnuts, it is just that all the wingnuts claim to young republicans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07brooks.html?_r=3
July 7th, 2009 at 5:42 pmThe Young Republican Says:
Yes libs keep focusing on the failures of bush
If we focused only on bush’s successes, we’d have nothing to say. I know that’s a “shocker” to you…
July 7th, 2009 at 5:42 pmThe Republicans tried to start up a website featuring Bush’s successes. But, it didn’t get many hits because it was just a blank screen.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:47 pmThe Young Republican Says:
Yes libs keep focusing on the failures of bush
Let look at Bush’s failures:
He screwed up the US economy.
He screwed up the world economy.
He got almost everyone in the US to hate him.
He got everyone else in the world to hate him.
That is what we call the grand slam of failures. No other president before Bush hit a grand slam.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:52 pmYeah, but The Only Young Republican still loves, loves, loves him some Bush. Too bad that’s the only kind of bush he’ll ever get to love.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:02 pmdear lord…
class, tonight’s homework,
a)memorize the following:
i cant recall that
i dont recall
my recollection is unclear on that issue
b)create 3 smug facial expressions that mask the evil and corrupt changes you will be making to public process in confidentiality.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:05 pmOh good. When Texas secedes he goes too.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:25 pmmmmm… very tasty. Teaching a course in “contemporary issues”. Those issues wouldn’t happen to be the ones that ol’ Speedy helped create, would they?
(oh crap! Texas Tech? That means the bozo is getting too close to home. Bar the door, ma, and bring me my shotgun…)
July 7th, 2009 at 6:33 pmMaybe Alberto can teach “Surviving in Prison”, in about 20 years.
July 7th, 2009 at 7:45 pmSpecial topics about the Executive Branch.
We will have a whole new crop of Bushies coming out of Texas Tech. Nice.
July 7th, 2009 at 8:17 pmFirst Berkeley with John Yoo, now Texas Tech with Gonzo. Toss another school’s reputation in the dumpster.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:03 pmhey, i hear that that sleazy lawyer Norm Coleman is looking for work too. maybe they should team up and start a firm. they could have sleazy lawyer signs in spanish AND hebrew.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:24 pmsouthern methodist university loves bush jr
now texas tech loves alberto
war mongers love war mongers
ie like attracts like
July 8th, 2009 at 1:58 amGreat. First they hire an washed up lunatic for a basketball coach (Bobby let me throw a tantrum Knight) and next they hire a disgraced Attorney General. No more Alumni dollars from me to them until this dude is gone!!!
July 8th, 2009 at 2:41 amTexas politics..? Ethics? LOL..!
July 8th, 2009 at 3:27 amI smell the stench of the Bush family all over this appointment.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:43 amOnce again Texas steps to the forefront of stupidity. What is this clown going to teach ethics? How to avoid the law? How to lie?
July 8th, 2009 at 10:59 amTexas Tech? This is behavior I would expect from the likes of Texas A&M, but Texas Tech? To the alumni of Tech, I feel your pain.
July 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pmthis guy should be disbarred and in jail not teaching our kids. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
July 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pm