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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx</link><description>The Los Angeles Times says Sampson's testimony "could be a major blow to Gonzales, who is struggling to hold on to his job in the face of growing criticism from Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill"The New York Times adds that the White House repeated</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106599</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106599</guid><dc:creator>Still Crazy After All These Years</dc:creator><description>"Problems, Problems"-Everly Brothers</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106629</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:56:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106629</guid><dc:creator>Ravine Force</dc:creator><description>Another cog in the wheels of decit in the Bush Administration. Can there possibly have been an administration that has been more scandalous? </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106639</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:09:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106639</guid><dc:creator>John B, Des Moines, IA</dc:creator><description>Looks like Sampson is also not willing to go quietly, since he dropped prosecutor Fitzgerald's name in testimony yesterday.  Also the White House business being done over RNC email addresses so as to hide it from public scrutiny should prompt a whole bunch of congressional curiosity.  Ironic that it was the governor of TX in the musical "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" who sang "Ooh, I Like to Dance a Little Sidestep".</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106643</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:18:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106643</guid><dc:creator>Amy B Portland, ME</dc:creator><description>Did you know Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff, graduated from law school in 1999? He has tried one civil and one criminal case in his whole career. The guy is like 33. And he was in charge of firing U.S. Attorneys? What is up with this theme in the White House of choosing unqualified staffers for positions of authority?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106676</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:32:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106676</guid><dc:creator>Scott in South Texas</dc:creator><description>Amy, the only question on his application was his position on Roe v. Wade.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106681</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:35:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106681</guid><dc:creator>R.Merrell</dc:creator><description>Pan tostado, senõr, pan tostado...</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106688</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:40:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106688</guid><dc:creator>M.E., Albany, Ga.</dc:creator><description>"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"- (Judas Priest)</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106707</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:52:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106707</guid><dc:creator>M.E., Albany, Ga.</dc:creator><description>Amy- The "unqualified staffers" had "unqualified" administration choosing them. By hand selecting the inexperienced, they could "snatch them up right" according to their standards. They are more easily impressed, and kow-tow when asked. What better choice for a puppeteer? You can bet their was a "good-ole-boy" recommendation for his hiring. Where is he from?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106709</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:53:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106709</guid><dc:creator>Amy B Portland, ME</dc:creator><description>oops. I wouldn't make a very good reporter. I was repeating something I heard this moring on talk radio. Sampson actually graduated in 1993 from law school and is 38 years old. Thank you Ryan in MI, where ever you are, for teaching me to check my sources. Googling turned up this interesting fact, however: The Salt Lake Tribune reported that he "drew on a friendship he had built in law school with Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of the vice president, to land a job." Cheney is behind everything, as usual!http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070329/29sampsonfacts.htm</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106714</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:57:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106714</guid><dc:creator>blacksheep, Pope County, Ar.</dc:creator><description>Amy, If you take a young person, just out of school, give them a good job, along with praise, and raises, you develop an employee that is loyal to a degree that would be impossible with an older more experienced person.  This is a tactic often used by corporations to build their staff.  One weak point to this is that at the end of their tenure to Bush&amp;company is that these people will have a hard time fitting into the real world work environment.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106719</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:01:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106719</guid><dc:creator>Bob, Orlando</dc:creator><description>It is pretty obvious that Gonzales is finished, cosidering yesterday's testimony and the lack of White House support. If Bush has any political sense he needs to look at someone of unquestionable integrity such as John Danforth for a replacement. The office is much too important to be turned over to another crony. It just seems at this point that any honorable person would have doubts about jumping on this sinking ship.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106756</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:38:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106756</guid><dc:creator>Susan, Nebraska</dc:creator><description>Amy B.  It's called nepotism</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106762</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:41:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106762</guid><dc:creator>Susan, Nebraska</dc:creator><description>Well I guess that backfired on them yesterday didn't it blacksheep since he rolled over on Gonzales in regards to statements he made at his press conference not being true. Sampson should get himself a T-shirt that states. . . not scooters cell mate!!!</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106778</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:49:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106778</guid><dc:creator>Steve Turner Cedar Falls Iowa</dc:creator><description>Firewall?  Everything this Administration does is Political, from the War, right down to the Laws we have to live under while they don't.  The Department of Justice should be called Department of            Just Them.  Another stripped gear in the Transmission of Infamy.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106799</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:02:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106799</guid><dc:creator>Ivory</dc:creator><description>Let's run the totals Rumsfield's, let go by the President, Mier's forced out, Scooter out for doing whatever Cheney wanted. Gonzales is on his way he is just pro-longing the inevitable, he fired Sampson for doing his job, when he should have resigned!!! When will this insanity end? OH! I know when the "Decider" is back on the ranch.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106809</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:07:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106809</guid><dc:creator>Bob, Orlando</dc:creator><description>Amy, you had the right information, just the wrong staffer. Monica Goodling, the staffer who has refused to testify, graduated from Messiah College in 1995 and receieved a law degree from Regent University (America's preeminent Christian university, according to their website) in 1999. So you are on the right track. This fact also supports Scott in Texas' statement that one's position on Roe v. Wade may carry more weight in this administration's Dept. of Justice than any other "qualification".</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106815</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:10:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106815</guid><dc:creator>Mocking</dc:creator><description>We need an AG like Reno who spent all her time going after Bill Gates instead of say something trivial like UBL &amp; Al Queada. When she wasn't running over Americans with tanks, or kid napping Cuban children for the off shore caucus of the democrat party.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106819</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:13:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106819</guid><dc:creator>M.E., Albany, Ga.</dc:creator><description>Cheney "nepotism"- Isn't little Liz's husband the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Scarcity? Phillip Perry.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106822</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:15:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106822</guid><dc:creator>Darren Pope, MB, SC</dc:creator><description>This seems so simple to me, but of course nothing in DC is ever simple. IF(and notice that's a BIG IF)there was nothing improper about the firings this whole thing could be settled rather easily. All Gonzales needs to do is step in front of a microphone and run down the list, individually explaining why each prosecutor was fired. Simple. Not doing so suggests impropriety, even if there is none. Perception is, as they say, reality.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106827</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106827</guid><dc:creator>Nancy, Orlando</dc:creator><description>These silly children (Monica and Kyle and whoever else is over there).  These thirty somethings prancing around the White House and Justice department with their heady assignment of passing judgement on sage, A-team prosecutors - they simply look so completely foolish now.  How naive can you get?  Did they really think they were qualified to judge our United States Prosecutors' performance? These kids are wet-behind-the-ears suck ups that have no idea what they're doing or how the real world works.  I almost feel sorry for them. How utterly embarrassing for all of us. We need a heavy hitter to clean up the Justice Department yesterday - wonder if Patrick Fitzgerald would be interested in the AG's job, I hear that's coming available soon.  </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106829</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:17:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106829</guid><dc:creator>Lee Steele</dc:creator><description>"Equality under the law" to BushCo must sound like "Screwing for virginty" sounds to any functioning intellect. To BushCo, the law is just a tool to be used against your opponents. A drunken circus monkey could set a better example. Selectively applying the law is no better ignoring it entirely, and ignore is what they do regarding environmental laws. I know Gonzales had has right hand on a Bible when he swore to God to uphold and protect the Constitution - anyone notice what he was doing with his left?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106833</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:19:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106833</guid><dc:creator>Darren Pope, MB, SC</dc:creator><description>Do you know what I know? 
Your money and your wealth,
you silence just to hear your self.

Do you want what I want? 
Desire not a thing,
I hunger after independence, lengthen freedoms ring.- Metallica</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106845</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:25:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106845</guid><dc:creator>Nancy, Orlando</dc:creator><description>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the address for the Republican National Committee, folks.  The only purpose of any who work in that building is to ensure political survival of only the extreme right wingers in the Republican Party. Once one accepts this theory as fact, everything else this administration does, tries to do or tries to cover up makes sense and I suspect we will be uncovering the deliberate dismanteling of our government's agencies and infrastruction for years. Defense, Justice, State, Education -- where else should we look?  Smoke and mirrors and slight of hand, shame on every person who bought this bill of goods again in 2000 and again in 2004.  </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106854</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:32:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106854</guid><dc:creator>blacksheep, Pope County, Ar.</dc:creator><description>Susan, What you say might be true, but you need to realize that the AG is expendable, I'm not sure that all of the information that Sampson gave was completely accurate, Think for a moment about some of his answers.  If his memory was good enough that he did not need to keep a file of the AAG,s and their performance, then why was it so poor on matters such as who gave him what information and such.  Something does not seem right about some of his testimony.  Is he protecting a bigger fish than the AG?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106858</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:35:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106858</guid><dc:creator>Coy Reese, Shady Spring, West Virginia</dc:creator><description>Once I learned that Ms. Goodling had received her law degree from pat robertson U. aka regent univeristy...it became very apparent to me why she would take the 5th, rather than tell the truth to Congress.  I guess being a graduate of "America's preeminent Christian university" does not promote being truthful, rather than hiding behind the 5th Amendment...to avoid being truthful.  The more I observe the actions of these "evangelical" christians...the more I am convinced, that in fact they are the antithesis of the teachings of Christ.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106892</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:55:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106892</guid><dc:creator>Ken, MN</dc:creator><description>Darren Pope: Never thought you would be one to quote Metallica !!  Gave me a laugh that I needed.  No rant, just a good quote.  Thank you sir.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106908</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106908</guid><dc:creator>Zoo Keeper</dc:creator><description>Would Jesus take the fifth?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106925</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:18:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106925</guid><dc:creator>Seattle Sue</dc:creator><description>Mocking==You do not think the Cuban kid should have been returned to his biological father? Why did Bush 41 and Reagan not go after UBL and Al-Queada?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106933</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:21:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106933</guid><dc:creator>Bob, Orlando</dc:creator><description>Darren, you are correct. The administration had the right to replace all 93 attorneys if they wished. It is the fact that Gonzales stated that he was not involved, since contradicted under oath by his former Chief of Staff, along with his general failure to be upfront about the issue that seems to be his undoing.  </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106965</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:39:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106965</guid><dc:creator>blacksheep, Pope County, Ar.</dc:creator><description>Durwood Pope:  In your post at 12:15 you state that all the AG needs to do is on record and run down the list of removed AAG's and give the reason they were removed.  The only problem with that is two fold, first, are you sure he know why they were removed?  Second, would he be opening a can of worms that he would be well advised to not open?  Do you or I know the real reason that any of them were removed?  I really doubt it, and it is unlikely that we ever will!</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#106976</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:44:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106976</guid><dc:creator>Dorothy</dc:creator><description>"My Sweet Lord"--Chocolate Jesus that has lots of people upset. Also a good song by George Harrison.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107052</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:18:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107052</guid><dc:creator>Still Mocking</dc:creator><description>Gonzales will step down when every democrat who ever lied in front of a TV camera steps down. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107099</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:43:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107099</guid><dc:creator>Robb, STL</dc:creator><description>From The New Republic: "U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president. But, until now, presidents almost never fired prosecutors they appointed in the middle of their terms--perhaps only two of the 486 appointed in the last 25 years have been canned in this fashion. This is in part because presidents from both parties have implicitly conceded that these attorneys have a higher loyalty to the law than to political patrons..." Guess the new sheriff doesn't hold to that same belief.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107141</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:04:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107141</guid><dc:creator>JIrby, Colorado Springs</dc:creator><description>I wonder if there could be any more rotten apples in that barrel? This may be just some kind of unfortunate coincidence. You wouldn't think such a straight shooter like Bush would make the same kind of mistake twice. Still, we all know that with Bush, what you see ain't what you get. If you want to know what's on his mind, you watch his feet. So, just in case, we might better hook up Cheney, Rove and a few other usual suspects to lie detectors for eight hours a day for the next twenty years. It wouldn't hurt just to be on the safe side. We also need to look into the Harken and Arbusto Energy outfits. I know Bush has said that everything has been looked into there. That's why we better look.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107198</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:29:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107198</guid><dc:creator>Dave, still mocking in Tn</dc:creator><description>Questions about the forced resignations began late last year, when people noticed that seven U.S. attorneys had been fired on one day — Dec. 7, or Pearl Harbor Day (talk about bad PR). They were shown the door at the end of their four-year terms even though they were expecting to serve into the second term (as their colleagues were doing). 
from NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9030022 They were Bush appointees.  The fact that their 4 year terms don't correspond with his own means he didn't clean house like Clinton did when he first came into office.

</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107200</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:30:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107200</guid><dc:creator>Susan, Nebraska</dc:creator><description>AGREED 100% blacksheep</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107202</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:30:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107202</guid><dc:creator>New American Facsist</dc:creator><description>"Gonzales will step down when every democrat who ever lied in front of a TV camera steps down." That's right! Then every participant of the Tea Pot Dome Scandle, then we look into what Democrats were involved in the USS Maine explosion, then we impeach Bill Clinton again, and THEN we consider what might be going on right now.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107214</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:35:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107214</guid><dc:creator>Susan, Nebraska</dc:creator><description>OK Seattle Sue, even if you believe Elian Gonzales should have been returned to his father, sending in men with automatic rifles is NOT the way to do it.  It was grand standing at its best.  I have to say again, DO NOT support someone just because they are a Democrat or Republican, but on their merit.  I personally dont believe Janet Reno deserves to be commended for anything.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107235</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:40:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107235</guid><dc:creator>seano</dc:creator><description>I love it how lefties like to talk to themselves and draw conclusions on everything from soup to nuts.But that's about all your blather amounts to,soup and "nuts".Most of you only want to be validated in your uneducated rantings by your fellow nits.So you post your childish drivel to make you "feel" important.Feelings being the optimum word in lefty circles.I have a question for the 99pct of you on here of whom I speak?Do any of you know anything about the seperation of powers or the constitution of The United States, especially dealing with the fireings of the 8 incompetent attornies (who served at the pleasure of this president)? Apparently not, or you wouldn't be making such fools of yourselves to those few of us on here who in fact do know how our gov.and Constitution works. Just look at the gobbledy-goop you're spewing?All BS based on how you "feel"and not reality.This president, just as any past president, has a right to decide who goes and who stays within "his"justice dept.Just as your hero King Bill Clinton did! Not one of you has advanced a sane argument to the contrary regarding this case.Unless you consider namecalling and lefty vitriol against this president and Mr.Gonzalez"advancing the argument"?I carry a copy of the Constitution in my pocket.And I gloss over it at least once a week.You beauties ought to try it sometime? At least then your discussions would/may make some sense?Here's what I see: a lot of silly little arguments that don't amount to a hill of beans other then to see your names and drivel in print.Polishing one and others apples is not a discussion.It's living vicariously through the electronic media and thinking that you actually know of what you speak!Beam me up Scotty!!</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107256</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:48:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107256</guid><dc:creator>Still Crazy After All These Years</dc:creator><description>"No one knows what goes on behind closed doors"-Behind Closed doors-Kenny Rogers</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107360</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:32:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107360</guid><dc:creator>Robb, STL</dc:creator><description>I thought the Usual Suspects was Desmond and co. They let Cheney and Rove in RUTUS?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107370</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:34:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107370</guid><dc:creator>Susan, Nebraska</dc:creator><description>seano. . . wrong o. . . its not that the "nutty lefties" have failed to come up with an argument it's that you refuse to acknowledge it.  YES, CLINTON REMOVED 93 JUDGES WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE.  No he did not fire them mid term, and no he did not fire them after they refused to indict democrats and go light on republicans when they were leaned on.  One of them sighted as being "incompetant" was the judge in the Scooter Libby trial.  They were going to remove him in 2005 but were afraid it would look too damning if they did that.  Another point, BIll Clinton Didn't lie about it, or his motives, or knowing about it, or who did know about it, or who was involved.  NEWS FLASH SEANO. . . BIll Clinton is NOT responsible for why you are so miserable and why you hate the majority of the population that think GWB is a blooming idiot and a crook and a war criminal.  Now go ahead and jump all over me without an argument but with excessive name calling.  I am ready, I can handle it.  Have a great day!</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107388</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:42:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107388</guid><dc:creator>Raul</dc:creator><description>Hi Seano:  I've no doubt Gonzales carries a copy of the constitution around with him:  Bathrooms sometimes run out of toilet paper. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107390</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:43:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107390</guid><dc:creator>Flat-earther, Georgia</dc:creator><description>Carrying a government document in his pocket! Hmm ..Must be Sandy B. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107399</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:45:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107399</guid><dc:creator>Raul</dc:creator><description>Hi Seano:  I've no doubt Gonzales carries a copy of the constitution around with him:  Bathrooms sometimes run out of toilet paper. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107407</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:47:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107407</guid><dc:creator>Ryan, Michigan</dc:creator><description>Amy - thanks for the reference in your post. You are definitley one of the more rational and seemingly intelligent people that regularly post here. I haven't been posting as much recently because work is keeping me very busy for most of the day and my one year old twins keep me busy when I'm not working but I'm still out here and I read many of the threads but I don't usually have the time to post. Thanks again.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107438</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:57:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107438</guid><dc:creator>Carrie, NW Iowa</dc:creator><description>Seano - While executive branch employees do serve at the pleasure of the president, the judicial system is not meant to be controlled by political agendas.  It is meant to be controlled by the legal principles upon which this country was founded, not by an egomaniacal president's personal policy goals.  

By the way, since you are so smart, I'm sure you can figure out how to run spell check before submitting a post that makes your own highly touted intelligence seem exaggerated.  </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107448</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:00:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107448</guid><dc:creator>Scott in South Texas</dc:creator><description>Well I guess he told us.  I am truly humbled by his superior analytical acumen, not to mention his political, constitutional and psycho-social rationalistic expertise.  Nevertheless, an appropriate response:  "Oh Yeah?"  And don't call me Scotty.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107461</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:05:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107461</guid><dc:creator>Bob, Orlando</dc:creator><description>Nancy in Orlando, Thank goodness there is some one else in this town with common sense. Good to know you are here!</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107480</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:14:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107480</guid><dc:creator>Raul Walters St Paul MN</dc:creator><description>I've no doubt Speedy Gonzales carries a copy of the US constitution with him, as seano says: Bathrooms sometimes run out of toilet paper. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107547</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:45:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107547</guid><dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator><description>Not if we have anything to do with it.We are the falsely accused. RUTUS.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107551</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:46:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107551</guid><dc:creator>JIrby, Colorado Springs</dc:creator><description>How does it feel to be a Bush supporter now, when half of you have jumped ship? What are you saying to yourselves? That those bailing out are the dummies and you are the smart ones? Have you been paying attention when every piece of legislation that comes across Bush's desk favors the super wealthy at the expense of the masses, and Bush is getting writer's cramp signing onto them? What is BushCo doing in the way of keeping Halliburton from skipping off to Dubai with your children's and unborn grandchildren's tuition money? Anything? Does anybody know? I think that would be a good assignment for Repubs on this board. Find out what is being done to recover the taxpayer's money that Halliburton and several hundred other contractors in Iraq have stolen, while Bush, Cheney etc look the other way? It's your money. Bush just a few months ago cut funding for America's nursing homes, which are already hovels using minimum wagers to watch your gramma. Do you care? He did the same thing in Texas when he was governor there, after he replaced Ann Richardson who was better than Bush in every respect? Can you spell propaganda?  Keep your eye on the ball, y'all. Working class Repubs are the low folks on the totem pole, right above the homeless and the working poor. You have more in common with illegals than you have with the CEO of Exxon.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107560</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:49:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107560</guid><dc:creator>Robb, STL</dc:creator><description>WHEW! Desmond, I was worried there for a bit. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107626</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:35:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107626</guid><dc:creator>Dave, Tn</dc:creator><description>I say the same thing I did in 2000 Thank God it wasn't Gore, and in 2004 Thank God it wasn't sKerry. Not my fault you people are so stupid you keep throwing out loons. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107633</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:40:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107633</guid><dc:creator>blacksheep, Pope County, Ar.</dc:creator><description>seano: Sir while you attempt to place all people who do not agree with the current administration under the term "lefties" unfortunately you fail to realize that there are a large number of "True Republicans" who also do not accept what this administration and his cohorts in congress have done to this nation!  I, as do most realize that the removal of the AAG's was completely at the discretion of the POTUS.  What has caused me and many others cause for concern is not that he did it, but the way it was done, and the way it was explained.  Please look at your pocket constitution the next time you remove it from your pocket and see if it designates a particular political party as being supreme, or in charge of any one of the three branches of government?  If you wish your views to be held with any respect, perhaps you need to make your points without blaming any one that was in office prior to the current administration!!  Have a pleasant evening and enjoy the view from the Ivory tower that you have placed yourself in. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107638</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:48:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107638</guid><dc:creator>blacksheep, Pope County, Ar.</dc:creator><description>Dave, Tn: Simple question, when bUSH took office, did he appoint all 93 of the AAG's?  Were the ones replaced recently some of the one's that he appointed?  If Gore had been elected, would we have still had an attack on this nation on 9/11/2001?  If you answer yes, give me a link to back up your answer.  Thanks in advance.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107662</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:02:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107662</guid><dc:creator>Seattle Sue</dc:creator><description>Why does the right wing have to result to insults and name callingon this site?</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107666</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:04:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107666</guid><dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator><description>RUTUS members, meet up tonight. You know the P.O.Box</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107752</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:45:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107752</guid><dc:creator>M.E., Albany, Ga.</dc:creator><description>Okay..adjust that tin hat and get ready. Here comes the "beam"   "Surfing With the Alien"- (Joe Satriani)</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107826</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:20:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107826</guid><dc:creator>Jane, Southern Mississippi</dc:creator><description>"No one knows what goes on behind closed doors," Charlie Rich.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107833</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:25:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107833</guid><dc:creator>Jane, Southern Mississippi</dc:creator><description>Don't thank God for the "resutlts" of 2000 and 2004, Dave.  It wasn't His doing.  He just allowed it to happen to test us.  </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107860</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:01:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107860</guid><dc:creator>Jane, Southern Mississippi</dc:creator><description>The President's and the Attorney General's favorite quote, "Give me no reasons, give me alibis"  from Crystal Gayle's "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?"  </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107974</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:18:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107974</guid><dc:creator>Ken, Seattle WA</dc:creator><description>Seano! Your my favorite.  Is that the constitution in your pocket or are you happy to see me?  Considering the original constitution is five pages long, that BETTER be the constition.  If not, you've just gained my respect!  If it is though, and you really have been lugging it around for at least several weeks,  then you really should have it memorized by now.  You know Seano, I think a lot of people look at your wild posts and think your a radical jackass.  I'm here to defend you though.  I know deep down inside your a sensitive, lonely, careing person who is just looking for attention.  You can be my friend Seano.  Buddy.  Ken and Seano, BFF.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#107978</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:28:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107978</guid><dc:creator>Ken, Seattle WA, team ROTUS.</dc:creator><description>...Oh, and i forgot to mention my team.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#108280</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:41:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:108280</guid><dc:creator>Darren Pope, MB, SC</dc:creator><description>blacksheep: Typical of you that even when we agree on a subject you feel the need to disagree with me. Read my post again, with objectivity, and notice we're on the same page on this one.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#108392</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:39:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:108392</guid><dc:creator>Dorothy</dc:creator><description>"Eating Raoul"--A movie.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#108477</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:40:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:108477</guid><dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator><description>And, oh yes, there is no Desmond &amp; Co. We all were labelled under the same P.O. box by another blogger . Kinda like the President, "Either you are with us or you are against us." He, of course, at the time, I assume was talking about al Queda. The blogger was just talking about bloggers who did not agree with him.Well , if you read those sentences together, you might come up with the same conclusion. Imagine that. </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#108843</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:45:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:108843</guid><dc:creator>Still Crazy After All These Years</dc:creator><description>I named RUTUS but am an "Outsider".Because I am.....</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#108847</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:11:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:108847</guid><dc:creator>Dave, Sun City, AZ</dc:creator><description>Seano, read the part in the Consitiution about there being no litmus test for public office or has Gonzo rendered that little section quaint? ?You read the Constitution once a week my ass.</description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#108892</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:38:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:108892</guid><dc:creator>blacksheep, Pope County, Ar.</dc:creator><description>Mr. Pope said:&gt;&gt;blacksheep: Typical of you that even when we agree on a subject you feel the need to disagree with me. Read my post again, with objectivity, and notice we're on the same page on this one.&lt;&lt;
Actually I was not disagreeing with you, I was only reinforcing what you had said and posing a question for the forum about what the true motivation for the response of the AG possibly could be!  Trust me, if I disagree with you, I will ensure that your have no doubt that I do!  Have a great weekend! </description></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#153023</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:07:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:153023</guid><dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator><description /></item><item><title>Gonzales under fire</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/30/106584.aspx#153035</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:11:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:153035</guid><dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator><description>5,000,000 e-mails can't be wrong. The road to political and social repression is down the heretical road of blasphemy. One must surelty believe tha Jesus did die for our sins,especially the Pat Robinsonites and their dimwitted ruler boy George and his vampiric alter ego heartman.</description></item></channel></rss>