Embattled Attorney General Finally Resigns
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has finally been shown the door, following close on the heels of Karl Rove and virtually no one has stepped forward to say "Gee, that's too bad." In fact, perhaps his one redeeming feature was that he was finally able to unite Democrats and Republicans in their demands for his resignation.…
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26 - moonraven
YOU are the racist. Wet back and beaner are terms used by racists, hence, you are a racist.
I did not even say that Gonzales was "perfectly qualified".
I said he MAY have been.
We KNOW that Bush was not.
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27 - Christopher Rose
JOM, I assume you did actually read the email I sent you. Changing people's online identity's to belittle them is one of the things we don't allow. Stop it.
28 - Matthew T. Sussman
Christopher Rose? More like Christopher Smells!
29 - Dave Nalle
Works for me, Matthew Pussman.
Dave
30 - JustOneMan
Gee I guess Sussman and Nalle can play by different rules???
31 - Christopher Rose
JOM, I guess there is just no place for comedy in the angry little world you live in. Sigh...
32 - gonzo marx
simple answer to the Article's title..
who hired him?
second part, who confirmed him under the Constitution's "advise and consent"?
nuff said...
Excelsior?
33 - bliffle
Who's to blame for Gonzales?
I'll take a shot at that, and answer J.P. Morgan.
The famous financier is reported to have dealt with pesky lawyers who tried to tell him what was legal for him to do, by answering "I don't pay you to tell me what's legal for me to do, I pay you to tell me how you're going to make it legal for me to do what I want to do!"
Alberto Gonzales is the product of that Corporate Culture, and so he was easily trained to make GWBs wishes legal appearing. But he forgot that he was being paid by US taxpayers and imagined he owed his service to GWB.
He was easily tricked by playing to his economic insecurities. Witness his proud proclamation that his worst day was better than his fathers best day: he could only be talkng about money, the thing uppermost in his mind.
He was born to be betrayed, and when the time finally came GWB threw him to the hounds. It was easy.
34 - Clavos
A truly great man, J.P. Morgan.
35 - Zedd
I don't agree that Gonzales was a bumbler. I think that he was an intelligent man who was in an awkward situation. I think that he is one of the smarter prominent figures who have been appointed by GW.
I suspect that AG has had a life long practice of dispensing of his own principles and views in order to get ahead. Many minorities have to super play down in order to progress. A minority that is too capable and confident is often used as the secret weapon of the company or department but rarely gets ahead past a certain point. If a person plays the game, most of the time dummying down, they can slide through as the token, under the radar. In many cases the token is often a real bumbler (C. Thomas) but in a lot of cases, they are a great deal more intelligent and have spent their lives rolling their eyes on their commute.
I think Gonzales falls into this category. His communication style does not reveal an idiot by any means. He knows GW and the boys and that they expected loyalty first and foremost. He understood his role as the first Hispanic to hold such a position and had to hold on to the post however, he ended up loosing it by going along.
36 - REMF
Who's to blame for Gonzales?
Ummm... Larry Craig?
37 - Zedd
JOM
The tendency to blame affirmative action comes from the white male's fantasy that he is more qualified for everything that minorities engage in.
Gonzales is an intelligent man who was surrounded by a bunch of idiots, and power mungers. His biggest mistake was going along... Wake up its morning.
However, he was far more qualified than most of Bush's appointees.
What program do you blame for Rumsfeld, Bolton, and the rest of the unqualified.
38 - Baronius
Rumsfeld and Bolton unqualified? Whatever you may think of their tenures, they were qualified.
39 - Dan
there was probably more good that came from firing those 9 corrupt federal prosecutors than Alberto quitting by his own decision.
Janet Reno is of course the worst all time attorney general.
40 - REMF
Gonzales, Rumsfeld and Bolton were all more qualified than the former cocaine addict, GW Bush.
41 - Zedd
True.
42 - Doug DeLong
Dan: there was probably more good that came from firing those 9 corrupt federal prosecutors than Alberto quitting by his own decision.
Dan, my man, would you care to explain exactly how those 9 Republican federal prosecutors were corrupt?
This should be good...
43 - bliffle
Clavos said: "A truly great man, J.P. Morgan."
To some, perhaps, but not to my father who chuckled while telling me: "J.P. Morgan - the richest man in the world and all he can eat is cereal!". Morgan was famous for his lousy digestive system.