It’s time for the gloves to come off Mr. President
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With the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales the President has an opportunity to do something with the justice department. The President needs to appoint someone who believes strongly in the foreign surveillance program, he needs to appoint someone who will go into the justice department, not with a new tone, but someone that will clean house of the endless career bureaucrats that been undermining the administration.
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Chuck Schumer was quoted as saying that democrats "will not obstruct or impede a nominee who we are confident will put the rule of law above political considerations." Translation: It's ok for democrats to put political considerations above the rule of law when a democrat is in the white house but republicans have do what democrats think is right. BULL@$%&. It's time for President Bush to nominate someone tough, someone strong, someone who will investigate the endless leaks for classified information, someone who will investigate corruption in congress, Diane Feinstein anyone. I am tired of this loser band of has been democrats weak spineless republicans like Arlen Specter determining the agenda and what give them the power to say what's right or wrong!
Brandon
Conservativesuperiority.com
reward AGAG for his service - a Medal of Freedom would be appropriate, maybe AG could share Tenet's - and then nominate a consesus candidate who will be a strong bipartisan chioce. Maybe he could get a list from Schumer, Specter & Kennedy so the office isn't vacant for months.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
It has been a long and difficult struggle but at last, the attorney general has done the right thing and stepped down. ...We Democrats implore you to work with us. Don't choose the path of confrontation and throw down the gauntlet we are willing to meet you in the middle of the road. All we ask is that you choose somebody who puts the rule of law first. We're not looking for confrontation here.
..."someone that will clean house of the endless career bureaucrats that been undermining the administration."
You mean another White House lickspittle who will continue to be a Bush houseboy don't you? No one undermined the administration more then Alberto...by his incompetence and his total devotion not to justice, but to our irresponsible and clueless President...
You right wing trolls amuse me endlessly!
Look, someone let a troll from dKos in.
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Don't lay the racist lable on me HCRS...Gonzo WAS Bush's loyal little houseboy, not because of his ethnicity, but because of his devotion to his Boss's wishes and the Republican agenda, and his total disregard of his real job...justice for all.
And you are an unreconstructed racist to try to sell the idea it isn't.
OTOH, I do hope we get a "justice for all" AG. Someone who will...
.. Investigate Dianne Feinstein.
.. Prosecute Icebox Jefferson.
.. Investigate Harry Reid's real estate deals.
.. Go after the NYT and WaPo for printing classified documents.
.. Find a way to reopen Abscam and nail John Murtha's a$$.
.. Investigate voter fraud in Washington State in the last Governor's race.
For starters.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
Houseboy, typically is a male servant or assistant who performs domestic or personal chores, as in:
* Houseboy, an American slang term that originated in World War II describing a native boy who helped a soldier perform basic responsibilities like cleaning, laundry, ironing, shoe-shining, running errands, and the like. However, unlike the American "bootleboy" or British "batman", a houseboy was not employed by an officer or noncommissioned officer but by the entry-level soldier or private as a means to reduce a very heavy workload or to cut corners on a large amount of work. The employment was at first condoned but later and especially during the Korean War soldiers who were caught employing a houseboy faced stiff penalties because a lot of them became expert thieves and could be either bribed for information or have their relatives kidnapped or killed for helping Americans. By 1982, Korean houseboys were again permitted (as at Camp Casey), generally middle-aged men conspicuously older than the young troops they served.
* Houseboy, a Commonwealth term for a male housecleaner. This was usually a man of colour who worked for an English family living in a Commonwealth country. A female housecleaner is called a housegirl. Houseboys and housegirls often have to wear a uniform.
I need to let 'er rip like that more often, if it's going to spawn huge gang beating sessions like this, heh.
Marisa Treviño blogs at Latina Lista
A lot of things can be said now about former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales - and a lot of people are saying them.But if there was one point that no one can dispute, it was his loyalty to the President.In fact, it’s fair to say that Alberto was loyal - to a disgraceful fault.
Rightly or wrongly, because there are still too few highly accomplished Latinos in the public arena, whether it be politics, sports, entertainment, etc., there exists a collective pride among Latinos when “one of our own” makes it.That should have been the case with Alberto Gonzales.His kind of background - one of eight children of Mexican migrant parents, who worked his way up through school, weekend jobs and military service - is routinely held up as a model within the Latino community as evidence that realizing the American Dream is not just a dream but can be a reality, our reality because a boy like Alberto proved it true.
Those kinds of stories are legacies unto themselves and if Alberto had followed the usual course of not just achieving success but being a Latino of strong character who upheld the principles of integrity, ethics and justice to serve ALL people, and not just himself or one man or one administration, Alberto could have lived off his legacy like former sitcom stars who live off the residuals of their syndicated shows. But he didn’t. He chose to turn a blind eye to “truth and justice” and the whole world witnessed what a lap dog with a Hispanic surname sounds like when trying to defend acts of torture, or the mistreatment of prisoners, or the firing of nine U.S. attorneys because they had the misfortune of not belonging to the right party.
According to historians, Alberto was “one of the most influential Hispanic officials in the history of United States government,” and he certainly knew how to lick the hand that fed him. He did it without conscience or thought as to what others thought of him, especially his community-at-large. Some in the Latino community say that Alberto only remembered to be Latino when it was to his political advantage - or used it for someone else’s.
Maybe so. Maybe Alberto is one of those guys for whom there is never enough distance between their hard-scrabble upbringing and the world of money and connections they eventually slithter themselves into.
But when that much distance is put in between where you came from and who you become, you can’t help but lose a big chunk of yourself along the way. And in the process, you don’t know where you belong.
For a son of Mexican migrants, at a time when it’s these very people who are being persecuted, hunted down and corralled into prison camps (including children), the impact of what Alberto lost and the power that he could have utilized to make a difference in this persecution may finally be brought home to him - if only he had remembered where he started.
Oh and don't forget the deal Bush brokered ( I am sure Karl and Josh helped) with the Dems. No more recess appointments and the Dems move on his judges in return. Does Bush really want to break that and leave a bunch of Fed judge seats unfilled for Hillary to seat in '09?
Ball in Bush's court -- send us someone we'll tolerate.
Maybe we get someone who can reopen the Sandy Berger fiasco, NYT and WashPost leakers case. The AG office has got to gain some type of creditability to be successful. Right now...they are a laughing stock with a clowns running the front desk. I want someone with a backbone to fight for this nation.