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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he's staying at the Justice Department to try to repair its broken image, telling Congress in a statement released Monday he's troubled that politics may have played a part in hiring career federal prosecutors.[..]

In his written testimony, Gonzales touted the department's focus on terrorists, violent crime and even aid to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina victims. He made no reference to the fired U.S. attorneys and only briefly mentioned the controversy that has torpedoed morale at the Justice Department and has called the fairness of its attorneys into question.

"Reinforcing public confidence in the department is also critical, and will be one of my top priorities as attorney general for the remainder of my term," Gonzales said in the prepared statement.

"I believe very strongly that there is no place for political considerations in the hiring of our career employees or in the administration of justice," he said. "As such, these allegations have been troubling to hear. From my perspective, there are two options available in light of these allegations. I would walk away or I could devote my time, effort and energy to fix the problems. Since I have never been one to quit, I decided that the best course of action was to remain here and fix the problems."

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Bit NOLA's picture

Remove him, at least, from office.

Dale's picture

I can think of the first thing he should do to fix the DOJ's image.

PVS's picture

thank god!!! GONZALEZ TO THE RESCUE!!!

angryspittle's picture

Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a Rye-Krisp with cream cheese and caviar.

Impeach and convict this lying motherfucker already!

What the fuck is the hang up?

Pussy fucking Democrats.

Just like hitler will fix the image of the 3rd reich . . .

Jason Wolfe's picture

Doublespeak, all of it. We do live in Soviet Russia.

JudyLou's picture

OMG, that statement is more chock-full of lies than just about anything to come out of the Bush cabal. LIES LIES LIES. He makes me sick.

Rusty Shackleford's picture

Is he going to fire himself?

Canuknotusa's picture

Oh good!
That's a relief!

kerplunk's picture

Leahy and Spector agree that Gonzalez can make the DOJ better. They have agreed to continue their enablement of Alberto Gonzalez.

Ronin Tetsuro's picture

The irony presented here has a crisp, nutty flavor... with just a hint of peach.

matt greer's picture

I believe, I have believed, listen, I have belived for about a week that........

Mitch's picture

Gonzo Vows To Fix Justice Dept.’s Image? Phew, that's a relief. Now we can all just put the legs up, relax, kick back a few Corona's, and thank god that Alberto is has a handle on things.

nohobear's picture

What a true, upstanding patriot- volunteering to stay and fix DOJ problems. He's a giver. Of course, the reality is he's been ordered to stay put since the administration needs it's lackey in the DOJ and can't afford at this critical juncture to have to contend with an independent DOJ that might start nosing around and digging up the criminal activities of this administration.

Pete's picture

What a smug and arrogant little liar. Republicans are the worst type of scum.

This piece of shit should be making Taco's at Jack in the Box !

Orwell's Illegitimate Son's picture

Did you see that Troy Polamula signed a five-year, $33-MILLION deal today with the Pittsburgh Steelers, to play safety?

Wanna bet that will be bigger news here in Pittsburgh than will the Gonzalez story?

Alberto, you scratched my Ring. I will never forgive you. Rosebud will never forgive you. Miguel will never forgive you. Jesus will NEVER forgive You!!! There is nothing you can ever do that will ever make up for what you have done to me and to my people. I condemn thee to an eternity of fire!! In the Name of the Most Blessed and Beloved Son of God, Jesus, and in the form of Miguel, Archangel of Heaven, I set thee to thy fate. You will never see Purple Again!!!!

Enjoy MY Cross!

Virtue

Executive Privilege is a myth. It doesn't exist. It was fabricated, invented, conjured by Richard Nixon during Watergate to try and hide the tapes. The only precedence in history regarding it was when Nixon took it to the Supreme Court and was forced to give them up. This is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, so help me Purple.

Virtue

Do a The Google search beginning with 'virtue lord purple', my screen name, and ask me any question, in any language of any period in history, with precise spelling and grammar, no punctuation, and I will answer it correctly and will show you things that you never even thought possible. My answers will all ways be correct, true and virtuous. I will never lie or maliciously treat anyone who sincerely seeks the truth. I have so much that I wish to share with so many people. I hope someone asks me something. Anything.

Purple

proud AMERICAN's picture

THERE WAS NO PROBLEM with the "image" of the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. The image has improve in an upward trend for 200 years until NOW.

It is the "image" of the current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is what is damaging the current IMAGE today.

If he wish to fix this negative image,,,,then HE should remove himself from this office. Otherwise Alberto GonZo remains a stubborn Stain much like the STAIN that won't come out of OUR WHITE HOUSE.

Barrett D's picture

He just insulted our intelligence

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's picture

Gonzo states he's not one to quit, proposing instead, to "remain [in the DOJ] and fix the problems.” What should one do, however, when one IS the problem?

Bluntly: escúchame, Alberto, el puto problema eres tú, no el DOJ. Si de veras deseas solucionar el problema, ¡renuncia ya!

Gort's picture

Fix it? This isn’t a flat tire; this is the charred remains of a car bomb. And you were the driver Gonzo.

JR's picture

The problem is Gonzales, not the public's perception. The only way Gonzales can fix the real problem is by resigning.

Doc Waterman's picture

I think I could really trust the man, if it weren't for the Ronald Reagan dye job, that's what really creeps me out. The dye job and sociopathology, that gets under my skin too.

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's picture

Translation: listen, Alberto, the f_ _ _ g problem is YOU, not the DOJ. If you truly wish to resolve the problem, quit now!

Doubting_Terrance's picture

Court of Progressive Justice @ 16:

This piece of shit should be making Taco's at Jack in the Box !

He should be breaking rocks in a chain-gang.

soothsayer's picture

I swear, the Bush administration is killing irony.

miss_kitty's picture

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega @ 25:

Translation: listen, Alberto, the f_ _ _ g problem is YOU, not the DOJ. If you truly wish to resolve the problem, quit now!

And in the familiar, not formal...HaHaHa!

Marc's picture

All better now.

Dale's picture

Lindsay Lohan might have said the same thing about her career.

BushisLiar's picture

This dipshit can't understand that he can't fix the problem because he is the problem.

Samson-'s picture

this is the last insult from torture-boy that i can suffer....

*throws hands up, storms out of room*

grrrrrr, motherfucking, fucker, fucking, fuck, quaint fuck....

LibertyLover's picture

He can fix it best by resigning

LibertyLover's picture

soothsayer @ 27:

I swear, the Bush administration is killing irony.

Or epitomizes it.

Lost_nacf_gop's picture

In a related story, Bush announces the appointment of Rush Limbaugh as drug czar, Ann Coulter as White House Chaplain, and Barry Bonds and Pete Rose as the Administrations Co-chairs of its Ethics in Sports task force.

Buckley's picture

2 words: Fuck you.

Dale's picture

"Oh, here's the problem: where I should have a brain, I have shit."

Gort's picture

Dale @ 30:

Lindsay Lohan might have said the same thing about her career.

Can we put a lie detector monitor on his ankle like Lindsay’s alcohol monitor?

P.S. A lot a good that did her, did you see she got a DUI again last night?

Ex-Canuck's picture

I saw this, and felt nauseous from the beginning. He blatantly lies, and refuses to answer any question with a straight answer. He does all this with a "fuck you" voice and look.

What a piece of shit - totally representative of the cheney/bush administration.

Dave's picture

I too call for impeachment. They are a gang of criminals.

Michael's picture

"Gonzo Vows To Fix Justice Dept.’s Image"

Note not fix the Justice dept, but rather it's image. Basically put lipstick on a pig.

James's picture

Also, Michael Vick said today that he vowed to clean-up dog-fighting.

BaScOmBe's picture

I wonder how long the dems think everyone will believe in the two-party system. This is bad theatre at best and at worst, it's collusion. Come 2008, we're supposed to turn over the reins of government to a different party working for a different group of corporate thugs, right?

Dale's picture

The Sheriff is going to clean up this town. Except for all of his criminal buddies.

joshdavis's picture

Imagine Michael Brown had vowed not to quit in order to "fix" FEMA.

Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?

lucid fiction's picture

Image....that's just the problem now isn't it?
No, fuck that, let's talk about SUBSTANCE.

enigma4ever's picture

Yeah, he'll "fix" the image...like he "fixed" the Firings, and the Patriot Act, and the Terra laws, The WireTappings, and Voting Right Cases.....He'll do a HECKUVA job....

I do know this - if Ashcroft had been my patient - I would have had no problem throwing gonzo out of that Hospital room on his slimey little ass....I don't care how many pounds of shoulder pads he had on....

[...] July 24, 2007 Posted by Evil Bender in wingnuts, News and politics. trackback Gonzo vows to stick around to clean up the justice department (causing irony meters everywhere to explode): Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he’s staying [...]

Spicegal's picture

It's way too late Gonzo, and it's time you faced up to that fact. That's the problem with this entire administration in general. They've lost all credibility. They've violated the public trust many times over. It's like I tell my kids. Once you get caught in a lie and lose trust, it's damn hard to get it back. Honestly, the ONLY thing that would even remotely restore this administration's credibility is for them to admit their evil ways, admit they've done wrong and hurt the country, humbly ask for foregiveness, and resign. I genuinely think people would have a higher opinion of the Rethugs if they did that.

BaScOmBe's picture

Barrett D @ 20:

He just insulted our intelligence

Not yours, theirs!

We do not rate their concern. Otherwise, more would be happening.

ysbaddaden's picture

Even Dr. Mengele couldn't improve the DOJ's image.

Marge's picture

Have no fear......Gonzales is here.....or is that Underdog..Can't tell the difference can you.

right on!'s picture

Gonzo, fix the image by leaving... got it? Okay... I mean you leave right now...

ysbaddaden's picture

Why do I feel like a dog in the vet's office?

GSD's picture

In a related story Jeffrey Dahmer has been hired to burnish the image of the Food Channel.

-GSD

Samson-'s picture

BaScOmBe @ 43:

I wonder how long the dems think everyone will believe in the two-party system. This is bad theatre at best and at worst, it's collusion. Come 2008, we're supposed to turn over the reins of government to a different party working for a different group of corporate thugs, right?

i think the dems are just hoping that people still are tricked into believing that their is a two-party system. instead of two wings of the same party...

personally, it is hard to see the light btwn dems and reps on a lot of HUGE issues (such as our imperial empire, the drug war, health coverage for all americans, corporate/govt collusion, etc., etc., etc.)

this is NOT to say that there aren't some dems that buck the party line, but it seems that, officially, the dems have their hands down the same pair pants that the reps do.

Smack_dab's picture

And right after Gonzales fixes the justice department, Bush will solve the Iraq war debacle, Cheney will solve our dependence on oil (with the help of Enron), and Rove will clean up politics. I hear that they are also forming a civil rights panel to be headed by David Duke.

BaScOmBe's picture

soothsayer @ 27:

I swear, the Bush administration is killing irony.

along with justice, the constitution, 4000 soldiers, 700,000 Iraqis, 15,000 Afghanis, 3000 New Orleanians ...

Dale's picture

ysbaddaden @ 55:

Why do I feel like a dog in the vet's office?

That's a different kind of getting fixed.

I don't know. Maybe it's not that different.

Samson-'s picture

crap (56):

that their is

that THERE is

friggin 'ell

Gotoguy's picture

Basically the MSM is promoting the AG's talking points. The MSM is as big a problem as the fascist Republican Party. When will America finally say enough is enough and have it's own Bastille moment!

casper46's picture

Wow! OT but Chimpy McFlightsuit said Al Queda 95 times in speech today. We have a new record folks.

Dale's picture

Gotoguy @ 62:

Basically the MSM is promoting the AG's talking points. The MSM is as big a problem as the fascist Republican Party. When will America finally say enough is enough and have it's own Bastille moment!

Fox News is gonna fix that problem.

ysbaddaden's picture

Gotoguy @ 62:

Basically the MSM is promoting the AG's talking points. The MSM is as big a problem as the fascist Republican Party. When will America finally say enough is enough and have it's own Bastille moment!

People prefer to remember them as Surrender monkey's with their fresh baked bread, lightly spread with armpit stink.

Nobody4President's picture

A fish rots from the head down.

E in Md's picture

The only way they can clean up the Justice Department's image would be to impeach Gonzo and stop being lapdogs for Bush.

Smack_dab's picture

Gotoguy @ 62:

When will America finally say enough is enough and have it's own Bastille moment!

Unfortunately, that won't happen until many more people have absolutely nothing to lose by standing up and fighting back (as tyrannies don't go quietly, evil never gives up anything willingly). Things are going to have to get a lot worse before they have a chance to get better.

Have him "fixed" so there will be no little gonzos in the future.

Trittydi's picture

Not possible.

These people believe they can SAY anything and it will be believed. You have to be in the brain-dead 24 percent to believe anything they say - the rest of psychotic America - the group not actually IN the White House.
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paranoia's picture

Just like they fix the evidence of WMD in Iraq! They like to fix things when they were not broken.

Trittydi's picture

Nobody4President @ 66:

A fish rots from the head down.

pissed off patricia @ 69:

Have him "fixed" so there will be no little gonzos in the future.

And the smell emanating from the halls of DC that are wafting across the rest of the country - and even the world - are worse than the killer fogs of London.
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nwmuse's picture

Attorney General Gonzales, when YOU are the cancer that is destroying the DOJ and threatening our nation built on the rule of law, then the ONLY solution available is to REMOVE THE CANCER! Not to have the cancer try and cure itself. You are the problem. Do the right thing for once and step down. That is the ONLY way you will be remembered for doing ANYTHING right.

TDoff's picture

As soon as the 'General' gets busted to 'private', maybe The Dummy will hire him as a 'Special Consultant on Presidential Signings', and Gonzales WILL improve the DOJ's image by not being there.

Wayne's picture

Smack_dab @ 68:

Gotoguy @ 62:

When will America finally say enough is enough and have it's own Bastille moment!

Unfortunately, that won't happen until many more people have absolutely nothing to lose by standing up and fighting back (as tyrannies don't go quietly, evil never gives up anything willingly). Things are going to have to get a lot worse before they have a chance to get better.

That will be after Americans can't get channels on the magic sparkle box, the cell phone quits working and Starbucks quits serving their favorite Latte.
People are sheeple.

cronopio's picture

I just read "he’s staying at the Justice Department" and "[he'll] try to repair its broken image" in the same sentence.
That's an oxymoron, a logical impossibility, the kind of thing that by all rights should make the universe implode.

ysbaddaden @ 55:

Why do I feel like a dog in the vet's office?

Weird. I usually feel like a dog at the ballpark.

Angry One's picture

Admittedly, these are a little dated...

The Top 10 Reasons Gonzales Must Go:
1. Lying Under Oath
2. Purging Prosecutors
3. Misusing the Patriot Act's National Security Letters
4. Authorizing Illegal NSA Domestic Surveillance
5. Enabling John Yoo and Unchecked Presidential War Powers
6. Rendering the Geneva Conventions "Quaint"
7. Supporting Military Commissions and the End of Habeas Corpus
8. Blessing Unprecedented Expansion of Presidential Signing Statements
9. Facilitating a CIA Leak Cover-Up
10. Gutting Minority Voting Rights

Since that piece was written, Gonzales lied to Congress. Again.

gempei's picture

I know what I would want to do to get that expression taken off his face, but I can't advocate violence here.

Lish's picture

Republicans set a standard with Clinton that Democrats should have no qualms about enforcing:

Impeach all liars.

Wayne's picture

Rusty Shackleford @ 77:

ysbaddaden @ 55:

Why do I feel like a dog in the vet's office?

Weird. I usually feel like a dog at the ballpark.

Both of you stay out of my yard, I have enough problems with the neighbor's real dog leaving mounds there as it is. hehe

Thing Fish's picture

Justice is supposed to be blind; not stupid. Please Gonzales, just walk away.

Bonkers's picture

[falls out of chair laughing]

Ok, Gonzo. Whatever you say. Now go rub Bush's polyps.

L.A. Confidential's picture

"Image" It's all about "Image"

nirak's picture

Right! Let the Fox clean up the chicken coop!

burbankokie's picture

"Since I have never been one to quit, I decided that the best course of action was to remain here and fix the problems.”

Hmmm, has the gall to pretend he doesn't know that HE is the problem, and the only "fix" needed is a simple one? Hmmm... who else talks like this out of pride? Oh yeah:

"I am not a quitter ....." (August 1974--guess who, and his initials are Richard Milhous ...)

cheesesauce's picture

Only by taking the two edged sword of justice and committing Harri Kari can this malodorous lump of predigested bovine byproduct have any redeeming value on the image of the DOJ.

moniker's picture

Maybe he's going to do a reverse-Cheney, and un-f*** himself.

Jim C's picture

It's like the rat saying he going to remain living in the house in order to rid the house of rats. Every answer he gave was crafted so as to have alternate meanings in preparation for future testimony in his own criminal trial.

L.A. Confidential's picture

"I decided that the best course of action was to remain here and fix the problems.”

I suppose in his mind that would be start imprisoning everyone who isn't in lock step with Bush Co in concentration camps.

Strawberry's picture

Bonkers @ 83:

[falls out of chair laughing]

Ok, Gonzo. Whatever you say. Now go rub Bush's polyps.

I kinda thought of Gonzo AS one of Bush's polyps. Let's see, there's also Miers, Snow, Condy, and rove as the other four. So when they said Bush had 5 polyps removed, I assumed he finally canned these guys.

jimbo92107's picture

John Wayne Gacy swore he would try to be a better clown.

Strawberry @ 91:

Bonkers @ 83:

[falls out of chair laughing]

Ok, Gonzo. Whatever you say. Now go rub Bush's polyps.

I kinda thought of Gonzo AS one of Bush's polyps. Let's see, there's also Miers, Snow, Condy, and rove as the other four. So when they said Bush had 5 polyps removed, I assumed he finally canned these guys.

Can't be. The docs said the polyps were benign.

proud American's picture

"FIX IT" like the way the BUSH administration FIXED the intelligence record to drag this nation into a needless WAR? If it were not for the Downing Street Memo leaking, "the FIXING" would not have been discovered.

For GONZO to fix-it is another attemp to to FIX-FUCK the crooked schemes of and HIDE the keys that would unlock the bag of tricks that enable the corrupt activities to continue He has no credibility. He has no respect. His loyalty is not for the people but for the criminals in Washington.

He needs to be REMOVED from office and charge for conspiring in criminal activities and abstructing justice and blatantly lying to the Congress and the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Removal from office is the first step to a list of penalties for his violation. The crime he has committed is FAR more serious because HE KNEW what he was doing and was INTENT in committing those serious crimes. He is an ADULT. An educated adult who simply got CAUGHT doing something wrong. He can not even admit to his crime. And we don't expect a criminal to admit his crime when he knows the consequences of his action. He will lie and just about do anything even exploit the President's "EXECUTIVE POWER" to avoid going to PRISON.

HE MUST BE REMOVED because HE will not resign at his own will.

This is NOT MEXICO..........this is AMERICA.........and WE respect the LAWS of our nation.

MCD's picture

I just watched a clip on RawStory of him being grilled by Spector (yes, the R from PA)... it was unbelievable how disgusted Spector was. He made some good points against Gonzo but that was probably all he did. I don't know why they just can't say: "That answer is unacceptable!" and keep him talking until he screws up and blurts out something he doesn't.
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Ruthless People's picture

"Gonzo Vows To Fix Justice Dept.’s Image"

Yea, and Bush is going to bring back dignity and integrity to the Oval Office!

senoritchy's picture

"The Fixer"

L.A. Confidential's picture

This better not be just another Dog and Pony Show

A Richard Head's picture

“Gonzo Vows To Fix Justice Dept.’s Image”

Bwhahahahahahahah.....hahahahaha. What a joke. Translated; "I've got to lie a little better".

GSD's picture

In related news former Congressman Mark Foley has been hired to promote No Child Left Behind.

-GSD

dadams's picture

Gonzales is a fucking idiot if he thinks we will let him stay as the ag. his arrogance is almost as impossible to believe as bush and cheney's. when does the justice department ever leave the criminals themselves to fix the problem/crime? NEVER

it's time this administration of fucking criminals are taken out of office. they have embarrassed our entire NATIONAL PRIDE, made us the laughing stock of the world and committed the most crimes by rewriting laws to make themselves dictators.

this is a democratic republic not a fascist-dictatorship. IMPEACH

Pretty freakin' sad when the Attorney General of the United States lies under oath and nothing happens. Who the hell are we supposed to trust?

Col Kilgore's picture

In other news.. the three gerbils extracted from the Chimps ass (Jeffy,Karl and WeeDicky) continue to recover from their ordeal. In an Animal Planet interview,the gerbils said they subsisted on a bottle of Jack Daniels and a bag of salted pretzels they found in President Mc Fuckups arse.

What would Zeus do?'s picture

The only thing Gonzo can do that would reclaim the image of the DoJ is to appoint a group of legitimate special prosecutors and turn them lose the entire administration. Of course Gonzo would be one of the first one's indicted (would he resign even then?).

jr's picture

Gonzo's the biggest snake oil salesman in the history of the Justice Dept

dothehop's picture

I think that the only way that Congress will get anything out of Abu Gonzales is to use one of his approved techniques of interrogation. Wouldn't it be a treat for the US people to see the waterboard in action and how well it really works.

concernedmom's picture

What fresh hell is this???

Gonzo "fixing" the Justice Department is a bit like the fox guarding the henhouse, isn't it?

Does anyone really think that the massing of power in the Executive is just going to be handed over without a peep in 2009?

Jo's picture

pissed off patricia @ 69:

Have him "fixed" so there will be no little gonzos in the future.

Jesus H. Christ yes!

Col Kilgore's picture

Thats a re occurring BushCo mantra . "Dont worry,we got it , nothing to see here and if so we will get to the bottom of it. Trust us ! ". Wonder how many suckers are still buying that bullshit ?

Limp-Dick Blimpaugh's picture

Gonzo is certainly sucking everybodys dick in the White House.

Medical Diagnosis by Video's picture

Gonzo IS the problem at Justice. Can he fix himself? No.

Leave or be impeached liar. You've turned the law office, lawless.

a guy's picture

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya, Gonzo.

Vman's picture

How does he think he's going to fix problems when he can't ever remember any?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIgbJSrIvWc

WashStateBlue's picture

Teddy Bundy didn't lie this well!

Gonzo is the smarmiest guy on the planet bar none.

He makes your typical used car salesman seem like the Mahatma!

I swear, they ought to burn the seat he used to day, and fumigate the Senate to clear out the virus of pure slime he trails....

fwacbar's picture

The guy looks higher than a fucking kite....

rage's picture

Fix the image?

How? And, with what? Is he leaving?

FreeDUMB's picture

“Reinforcing public confidence in the department is also critical, and will be one of my top priorities as attorney general for the remainder of my term,” Gonzales said in the prepared statement.

Spoken like a true Con Artist.

right on!'s picture

WashStateBlue @ 114:

Teddy Bundy didn't lie this well!

Gonzo is the smarmiest guy on the planet bar none.

He makes your typical used car salesman seem like the Mahatma!

I swear, they ought to burn the seat he used to day, and fumigate the Senate to clear out the virus of pure slime he trails....

Absolutely agree with your whole post, most especially that he's smarmy. I also think he's a pig-faced ba$tard but won't get more rude than that...

Jack Damage's picture

Ya know folks....Maybe its just me... But I think we've all had just about enough of Alberto Gonzales 'fixing' things...... He's just about 'fixed' the DOJ permanently... As in finished it off as a viable ligitimate agency of legal justice in this nation......... Go on Al... Go on and walk away... You've really done enough.. No, really just go away dude....Like how bout NOW....JD

kauli's picture

LMAO at the bs that Gonzales is spewing. This guy has been an evil, thoughtless, self-serving p-o-s since his at least his Texas Clemency Memos days. Words I thought I'd never write... way to go Specter.

Dr Acula's picture

Heckuva job, Fredo you fucking hack!

Strawberry's picture

Kieth Olbermann is having a blast with Gonzo's testamony tonight!

MN USA's picture

Oh please! The "image" of the justice department is the problem?

Old Billy's picture

This is just unbelievable:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/schumer-rips-gonzales/

Excerpt:

“I clarified my statement two days later with the reporter,” Gonzales told Schumer.
“What did you say to the reporter?” Schumer asked.
“I did not speak directly to the reporter,” replied Gonzales.

“Ok,” Schumer continued, “what did your spokesperson say to the reporter?”
“I don’t know,” Gonzales said.

Impeach his filthy ass and then prosecute him. Do we live in a democracy?

Liberal AND Proud's picture

Bit NOLA @ 1:

Remove him, at least, from office.

This dirtbag belongs in irons. Lock his law breaking ass up FOREVER.

LibertyLover's picture

Orwell's Illegitimate Son @ 17:

Did you see that Troy Polamula signed a five-year, $33-MILLION deal today with the Pittsburgh Steelers, to play safety?

Wanna bet that will be bigger news here in Pittsburgh than will the Gonzalez story?

Nope, you're wrong... it's Lindsey Lohan 24/7

Yeah, easiest thing in the world to do - wanna fix the image? Quit. See, there, that was fun!

bill w's picture

Gonzo should be fixed - like I had my dog fixed.
Now he talks (barks) in a higher voice.

Honest George's picture

Calling Captain Gonzo! Calling Captain Gonzo! Humpty has fallen from the wall - please help!!!

tr's picture

don't worry, gonzo already forgot about it.

Rubink's picture

For those that didn't hear the hearings today on C-SPAN, you missed yet another pathetic attempt at skirting the law. Arrogant AND ignorant. Horrible.

Peptic Skeptic's picture

How much Fixing can we take?

1. George W. Bush, President
2. Dick Cheney, Vice President
3. Karl Rove, Chief Political Adviser to the President
4. Don Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
5. Paul Wolfowitz, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense
6. David Addington, Chief of Staff to the Vice President
7. Douglas Feith, Former Under Secretary of Defense and Head of the Office of Special Plans
8. John Bolton, UN Ambassador
9. I. Lewis Libby, Former Chief of Staff to the Vice President
10. Alberto Gonzalez, Attorney General

Thes are the WORST people in Government and they have destroyed the US.
It may take 40 years to recover from the Black Eye they have given this country.

Peptic Skeptic's picture

And I didn't include some other favorites, like Condoleezza Rice, Mike Brown, Paul Bremer and every person who ever worked in the Vice President's office (yes, that definitely includes Mary Matalin).

All contributed to the destruction of the US Reputation on the world stage.

archerofloaf's picture

OK Alberto, so the problem is not that your department is corrupt. The problem is that it looks corrupt. Aaaaaalrightee Thennnn...

bmw 528's picture

"If your'e blue and you don't know where to go--
why don't you go where where corruption sits---

Puttin' on the fix!

Patriot Scholar's picture

That's all he could say, that he wanted to fix the image? Even in this feeble attempt, he can't avoid a political view of his department. They need to fix ethics, morality, conscience and practices first. Just how is a man who has none of those qualities going to fix anything?

Thomas Paine's picture

I'll go for tar and feathering, followed by a month of public water boarding, with a neck adjustment at the end of piano wire for this criminal's image enhancement.

dottoreholliday's picture

He already has "fixed it", just like a college basketball player shaving points. He has indelibly extended John Mitchell's effort to turn the Justice Department into the Young Crooked Republican Lawyers Club.

He has fixed the Justice Department irrevocably as the fawning pawn of a greedy amoral President and malevolent administration. A he can't even remember his lies as well as my four-year-old nephew, when caught.

Unlike the Supreme Court on Special Tribunals for Gitmo inmates, he doesn't even have the capacity to be nauseated by his malfeasance.

Good Job! Gonzalie!

w.smith's picture

I discovered a re-broadcast of this on C-SPAN tonight and was riveted... Gonzo is just incredible. He's almost cartoon-like in his douche-baggery. The highlight of the program had to be the end, when protesters in pink behind him started yelling "LIAR!" and "THIS COUNTRY IS RUN BY CRIMINALS!" as he exited.

Free speech and dissent are NOT dead in this country. Bravo to those folks!

nwmuse's picture

I have decided that from today on, I refer to Gonzales as Bush’s Consigliere. As in, Alberto Gonzales, Consigliere and Execu-sycophant.
Pathetic, and scary.
He has not demonstrated that he IS Attorney General of the USA, he HAS demonstrated that he IS Bush’s Consigliere, and the Bush Administration is operating much like a mob or syndicate.

enigma4ever's picture

Peptic Skeptic- don't forget Karen Hughes, Wolfowitz, Powell, Tenet,Cambone (torture memos), Susan Ralston ( ROVE"s assistant), RUMMY, Armmitage, Porter Goss, John Garner, Chertoff,Ari Fleisher, Scott McCellan,Delay, Frist,Christine Whitman, and we should put Rudy Guliani on there- he was out Humping the Bush agenda instead of taking care of 911 workers....oh and Novak for putting Plames name in the paper...okay I am going to stop...before I throw up thinking of all these souless bastards....and criminals...

Rich in San Bruno's picture

Hey Gonzo...you're Fired

nonny mouse's picture

I just had this image, looking at that photo of Gonzo, of a fox with chicken feathers sticking out of his mouth promising to fix that hole in the roof of the henhouse first thing in the morning...

sassafra's picture

"Reinforcing public confidence in the department is also critical, and will be one of my top priorities as attorney general for the remainder of my term,” Gonzales said "
good. quit. now.

StCyrlyMe's picture

Is there a problem with the justice dept?.

BillD's picture

He's the asshole that let it get out of hand in the first place.

bamboozled's picture

He is the problem with the image. How is he going to fix it by staying there?

That's like Phillip Morris saying, "We're going to fix our image problem...by continuing to target children as smokers."

radlib1's picture

Alberto Gonzales is the same guy who as Attorney General of Texas wrote the briefs for executions in that state (George W. Bush managed to kill more people during his Texas governorship than any other governor in the history of the United States - I believe his final -- and I do mean, "final," total was 152). Bush rarely took more that 5-10 minutes reading the briefs (they're called "briefs" because Bush has a short attention span) and then okayed the state killing - black, white, woman, retarded, he didn't care. "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" was his unofficial motto.

Things haven't changed much in the White House. "Fredo" Gonzales is still the Hispanic "house boy" and Dubya is still the "Chief Executioner" -- insurgent or innocent Iraqis, American soldiers, it doesn't matter --he's the "Master of the World" in his own mind.

In reality, or course, he's a cowardly chickenhawk who served in the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas Air National Guard during Vietnam (and who even went "AWOL" from that). Now, he's "hollow Prince Hal," the presumably royal heir who sends other people to die for a war that he would avoid like the plague.

A Pox on the House of Bush.

Robt's picture

I think Gonzo already gave the Justice Dept a new image.

It may be a stable image. a stable full of republican partisan hack judges, that is.

actually I think Gonzo doesn't realize just how transparent his (what I call) criminal actions of the DOJ is to the nation. Gonzo doesn't remember very much yet doesn't take any memory medicines.

Hello Alberto Gonzales,

You are not very slick with your handling of America's DOJ. mattter of fact is we all stongly see that you have performed less than honorable in Americas trust of your handling. It is only a matter of time before Congress and Senate remove you. With both sides of the aisle voting against you.

If you think the remaining supporting republicans of you will not turn on you once they see the American people ready to remove them from office for allowing you to continue to bring dishonor to our country. Think again.

There are many that served the military, lawyers, police, scholl teachers, college students, bus drivers, and on and on that want you out Mr Atty General. Go !!!!! Because we are coming......

Cantor de Mambo's picture

Resign, you third rate hack.

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