Behind Gonzales' resignation

vanreuter, NY NY — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:29:32 GMT

If there were any, "reactions", other than, "It's about time.", this might actually be newsworthy.

Van

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Sierra, San Francisco — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:39:53 GMT

Congratulations, Z !!
Gonzo is gone !!
Now, let's have some honest testimony, Gonzo !!

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Independent, Texas — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:45:56 GMT

Just watched the "official" statement from Gonzales re his resignation. Very good statement. Wish I could feel that it was true. I thought he might break into tears at any moment.

He grabbed his notes and left the lectern almost before the last echo of his words faded.

There was no one there with him. Contrast this with Rove's resignation where Bush was the one almost in tears and was virtually hanging onto Rove.

In addition, I posted earlier today that I think we have the attornies in the Dept of Just Us to thank for this. I'd been hearing rumours that a rash of threatened resignations along with threats to go public about the chaos in the department was barreling down on Mr. Gonzalez.

I don't think that political pressure was the final push.

Have to wonder who will be put in this position now. My stomach clenches when I think of the candidates that are being floated as replacements.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:52:31 GMT

FAREWELL TO GONZO. ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST.BUY, BUY

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Peggy Martin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:14:05 GMT

why is there no response from presidential candidate Ron Paul...I would like to know what he has to say about this decision

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E. Coppola;Boston Ma. — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:23:32 GMT

I cant help but think Gonzales is being used as a 'patsy'. "once upon a time" I thought the BUSH adm. was the answer to our Middle East woes. OH, was I wrong! And they (people) thought it was a scandel what Clinton did. Something is very wrong with this picture! Anything that comes out of Bush's mouth is to be thourghly questioned.

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KYJUrisDoctor, BGKY — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:26:32 GMT

So he FINALLY, though BELATEDLY, does the "Gonzo shuffle"? View my choice for successor:

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/08/breaking-news-us-attorney-general.html#links

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Glen Graves, Grants Pass, Oregon — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:32:55 GMT

I finally like Gonzales.
He finally got it right.

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Jefferson's conscience, Monticello, VA — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:33:42 GMT

"If he thinks this will keep him out of a war crimes tribunal, he's in for a big surprise..." -anon

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Allan Carter, Lakeland, Fl 33811 — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:34:51 GMT

Attorney Generals job is a hard one.Everyone tries to play politics with it. You have congressmen who are not lawyers who try to second guess his decisions. It does not matter what side of the party he's on, the other side plays games. Its needs to be an elected position than we would know for sure its all politics. Our system is going down hill all the time, you never know what is right or wrong. Congress have no right or wrongs any more. Its all politics. Congress changes their minds like a coin flip. You have to listen to them each day to know where they stand. You really wonder what kind of government we will have in 100 years from now.
Allan Carter

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Paul, Miami. Florida — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:42:18 GMT

Just another on of his cronies that was loyal to Bush and not the country. Justice has seen the worst in his tenure. When will these PUBLIC official get it that they are to work for the PEOPLE and not just one person (Bush). Another one of Karl Rowe's legacy issues.

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nuanced — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:46:22 GMT

Will the Department of Justice have a tearful farewell party for him same as DOD had for Rumsfeld?

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Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:52:15 GMT

Thanks Sierra ! I think they all will be heading to the clinker, but it's going to take alot of time. More likely into the next administration.

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Sam Hartley — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:07:58 GMT

Yes--it is far past time for the administration to be working for the AMERICAN PEOPLE. And not just because they are Hispanic either, feel that is to obtain their voting power.
This administraation has been so corupt that all Americans are feeling the effect. Send Bush back to Crawford.

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Bob, NY — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:11:43 GMT

It's too bad that he resigned. I wish he could remain- pretty much powerless and like a permanent visible stain, a scarlet letter, a stigmata reminding the country constantly of the travesty that is the Bush administration.

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Susan, Miami — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:15:12 GMT

Maybe now Cheneys evil black heart will burst and then we can impeach Bush. Then, Condi can run off with Lynn Cheney, and Laura Bush can dump George, and dems will take over the oval office, and everyone will live happily ever after.

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STEVE DOE — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:28:28 GMT

ROVE'S GONE, GONZO'S GONE,........WHO IS GOING TO PROP UP THAT PUPPET UP THERE?

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down&dirty — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:45:16 GMT

Gonz left? Probably cuz John Ashcroft threatened to whoop his ass for lying about his bedside visit.

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jjg, ms — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:06:38 GMT

It sure did take a long time; a period of time during which many illegal and destructive things were done by this administration. Mr. bush sure is finding things a bit lonely lately.

More evidence that voting is critically important. Criminals.

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nick bartow, lester, pa — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:06:53 GMT

I remember coming to work the day after the last election and my GOP buddies saying to me well nick it looks like your side did it. I said back to him and everyone who was in ear shot that " the president has to fire RUMMIE before the day is out". I know all of those guys thought i don't know what i'm talking about. I went to lunch and turned on my radio and i laughed out loud because there was the president firing rummie. when i returned to my desk at work my doughter called me from temple u. to say dad you were right. i told her before we left for school and work the same thing i told the guys at work. one of the guys asked me how i knew. i didn't but i knew it was the right thing to do. the rats are jumping ship big time. Rove was next, now Gonzo, next will be rice and then d.c. will follow with some kind of medical excuse.
to be honest i am not so happy today to hear gonzo quit because it means our whole goverment is going down and it's a very uneasy feeling. everything this president has done has gone to hell. we are in deep trouble because as much as i did not like all the president's men, the pres has no one now!!!!!
good luck america

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Thomas Georgopoulis — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:09:19 GMT

Now that there is BLOOD IN THE WATER don't expect the sharks to chomp kindly. I sure hope they nominate Chertoff 4 the job; perhaps we will be able to learn more about FBI operation Diamondback that he torpedoed and his links with 911 and more particularly---the financing of 911. We still do not know all Nixon crimes, mostly his crimes in which Democrats were the victims.

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F. J. BESSE — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:17:08 GMT

IT'S ABOUT TIME HE REALIZED ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

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R. A. Williamson of Danville, CA — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:20:18 GMT

Let's play "What's Next?"
(a) Gonzo will be given a big award by George of Arabia,
(b) We will then hear a "great job Al"
(c) George of Arabia will pardon Gonzo just before the "end of an error" in January 2009

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Jan, Huntington, WV — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:21:24 GMT

The President has not been playing with a full deck, and even now his house of cards has almost entirely collapsed. The next big thing is for Speaker Pelosi to put impeachment back on the table.
But how will we undo all of the destruction to this country and the world that has been a result of this Administration's arrogance and foolishness?

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Carol Shumard Diehl — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:30:43 GMT

my comment has to do with our miners'in Utah/why can't there be a tracking device attached to miners who go deep beneath the earth? We track spaceships,we track cars and criminals...why are we not tracking our workers who rish their lives?C

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Bryan Watson — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:45:36 GMT

http://bvwatson.com/GoodGov/2007/08/on_alberto_gonzales_resignatio.html

The significant question is not who will replace him, but how the Senate decides. See this blog (above) for a first run at the minimal criteria for accepting the next AG nominee.

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stix66 - illinois — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:49:55 GMT

and so another bites the dust, falls on the sword, bites the bullet etc on behalf of georgie porgie's administration ...glad to see gonzales was dogged until his pen to paper was forced; however, this DOES NOT alleviate my frustration with this white house ..so many men, so little time ..arrgggghhhhh!!

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Class Warrior, D.C. — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:50:29 GMT

I, too, wonder what prompted Gonzo to quit. It couldn't have been that he didn't have cover from the Prez, he even invited him to Texas to assure him he'd never do time, so stay the course, Al. I tend to agree that it was probably a soon-to-hit-the-fan revolt by most of the personel at DoJ and the terrible things that would reveal about Gonzo's incompetence that made him quit---no one likes to appear a fool in public, and it may have been this that got to him, rather than the non-existent threat of jail time.
For whatever reason, the country is well-served by his leaving.

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HS, Glen Allen, VA — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:01:18 GMT

Good Riddance, but this shouldn't end the investigation into the White House's role

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Blue state baby — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:16:45 GMT

Susan, Miami, If Condi and Lynn Cheney get together, do you think they might have a kid together? We would have another Dick running around!

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Robert Catalano, Salem, OR — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:27:30 GMT

Maybe he wants to spend more time with his family before he goes to jail for lying under oath to Congress.

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Harmony 1812 — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:03:26 GMT

Gonzo is GoneZO! The gang is leaving because it would look bad for Bush to pardon his people while they are still working for him.

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A.L. Thompson, Florida — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:17:53 GMT

The sad part about this whole fiasco is it was so avoidable with a bit of common sense. Just 'fess up that the firings were political, do a mea culpa and move on. Instead, Gonzalez and all of his people look like idiots for apparently having no knowledge at all of what was going on inside their own agency.

No doubt, the administration will now use this resignation as a reason to try and sweep the rest of the hearings all under the rug. If they had two brain cells between the lot of them, they'd offer the AG position to James Comey. He had more honesty and common sense in his testimony to the Senate over this whole thing than anyone else I'd seen.

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Earl Monreal — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:21:06 GMT

Finally, Gonzales goes home, on his own accord ? yeah right, it's about time he got the message.

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Nick Dorsey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:24:20 GMT

Does "rats" and "sinking ship" come to mind?

Good Q raised elsewhere is whether The Shrub can make a quickie "interim appointment" and name some idiot like Chertoff.

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Class Warrior, D.C. — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:30:36 GMT

Another one bites the dust, and another one's gone, and another one's gone...
What's next? Shrub gives him the Presidential Medal fo Freedom or something. He always rewards the screw-ups in his operation. He could learn a lesson from China, maybe...instead of encouraging screw-ups, they shoot them. No such luck here, though...
Bush is probably desperately looking around to find someone Congress will accept who, at the same time, won't be honest enough to blow the whistle on the evil oozing from the White House and poisoning the body politic.

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hot dam — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:50:12 GMT

I WONDER WHY SHRUB THREW GONZO UNDER THE BUS? JUST MAYBE CHENEY HAS THE GOODS ON SHRUB AND HE IS NEXT UNDER THE BUS. NOW WHAT DOES THE CHEN HAVE ON SHRUB??
REMEMBER HOW THEY KEPT REAGANS ALZHEIMERS A SECRET...MAYBE??

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Mitchell Feldman, Vestal, NY — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:22:38 GMT

The firing of federal attorneys was not just an act of political indiscretion. It was an attempt to influence the prosecution of cases in order to alter the outcome of elections. This may be considered a fine point by some but others acknowledge it as an act of politicization of the DOJ (I think I smell a Rove). I am not familiar enough with Constitutional law to say whether or not it was illegal but the malfeasance certainly goes beyond the concept of a cover-up. The ethical considerations (or lack thereof) have demoralized the DOJ and should have been grounds enough for the dismissal of Gonzalez. To turn the DOJ into a political arm of the White House reeks of a subversion of democracy that is suggestive of the Soviet Politboro or Nazi Germany. This is a frightening thought and all of us (Republicans and Democrats) should be outraged. This presidency has been such a disaster and not only because of the direct result of its actions (or inactions, as the case may be) but in the way that it has tried to establish an imperial presidency, an effort that makes Richard Nixon's attempt pale by comparison.
I think that we, the people, may finally be winning in the quest to take the country back. Somehow, though, it ain't over till it's over and I worry that the power elite and their ministry of truth (Minitruth) may yet pull some tricks out of their hat. Citizens be alert to the colors.

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Ron, St. Louis, Mo. — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:16:11 GMT

I normally don't care for Mondays(Who Does?), but yesterday was FANTASTIC because of Gonzo. I just hope that the congress keeps up the pressure to find out just what this administration(including Gonzo, Rove, Miers, Rumsy)has done that is cause for prosecution.