BREAKING: Gonzo Is Gonzo
By Jamie Sunday Aug 26, 2007 7:16am
The New York Times has the details:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for his resignation, submitted his to President Bush by telephone on Friday, the official said. His decision was not immediately announced, the official added, until after the president invited him and his wife to lunch at his ranch near here.
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Who's he again? I don't recall....
wewt! just 2 more impeachments and we may save democracy!
AndrewK @ 1:
OH yah.. that refreshed my memory
Pussy! Taking the cowards way out.
Can he still be subpoenaed???
Hasta la byebye baby!
Alberto Gonzales has resigned. I am going to scream it again! NO RESIGNATION IN LIEU OF JUSTICE! This good ol' boys club mentality has got to stop within our government! This man took a position of public trust, broke our laws and tried to trash our constitution! Congress better impeach in absentia or indict this scumbag!
SonOfLiberty @ 2:
impeachment = noodly-legged and half-assed threats from Congress to possibly begin a counsel to strongly suggest the idea of impeachment.
AndrewK @ 1:
HAHAHAHA. Nice!
Gonzo better see if he has amnesia or alzheismers
If this is an accurate report, I wanna know two things:
1) What's the 'real' reason (it's not that he wants to spend more time with family, duh)? Has something come up where Fredo's found out he can't hide something criminal anymore?
2) Where does the conga line start?
Can you say "recess appt."?
I can imagine the start of that conversation:
gonzo "So nice of you to invite us over sir. What was it you wanted to talk about?"
shrub "uh well gonzo you've done a heck of a job"
gonzo .oO(uh oh)
We can celebrate all we want but that changes nothing. Everything that's been going on in this country will continue to happen with or without Gonzo.
Gonzo ===> Jail!
Buh-by
About time! =)
I suppose his replacement will have to take a Bush loyalty test before being allowed to drink from the cabinet Kool-Aid.
whoopeedo...hang on this is irrelevant, whomever Bush brings in to replace him will be as, if not more, crooked than Gonzo.The Bush admin has a whole line of twats waiting to come in to replace any present serving twat who finds himself in a big pile of hubris pie.
Supposedly his replacement will be Chertoff.
Pretty sick huh?
The media is floating Chertoff as the replacement. What god damn travesty that will be.
Not good enough. He needs to go to jail for a long, long time. But we will probably see Bush give him the Medal of Freedom.
So when does he recieve his medal of honor thingie?
Are they sure he remembered to hand in his resignation?
Skeletor? Defender of Justice? Sounds even worse... OK, too close to call.
Anyone wanna bet that this is going to be another example of failing upward? Considering Gonzo's closeness with Dear Leader, I'm half expecting him to take Karl Rove's place.
Chertoff. What's the difference. Nothing will change.
Chimp's "heck of a job" curse strikes again.
Retired Navy, our minds were on the same wave. :)
He better not get off this easy. Just because you quit your job doesn't absolve you from a crime you committed while you worked there. Now who's going to cover bush's legal ass?
They should make gonzo talk and talk a lot.
so what medal does he get for a going away present?
steambomb @ 19:
He'd be perfect. Who needs laws and constitution and government over sight when you have the awesome power of... a gut feeling!
Rove,Gonzales,the list grows,but what sets the blood on fire is that these guys are resigning at their own pace and not because theyve got criminal charges outstanding or a functioning Congress on their backs in any serious meaningful way in terms of filing criminal charges or at the very least impeaching and prosecuting them for the horror show theyve inflicted on America, its constitution,rule of law and the world by proxy by setting the WORST example in history of what America is supposed to be about.Failure to call these people to book will send a terrible message to the world that America doesnt care for justice or accountability and worse still it will render what you have stood for over centuries to become redundant in the eyes of other democracies.
If there are no charges against him, is he free to leave the country?
hmmm... their timing is off - don't they release news like this on a friday before a holiday?
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
Dim Son-of-a-Bush sure can say Recess Appointment so the congress better call of the rest of their vacation TODAY!!!
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
Quick! Get the sharpened stakes - lets make sure! Or maybe just the sunlight will work. Come to think of it, it already has.
I smell cooking goose.
Thank you Sen Leahy and Rep Conyers.
one more rat off the ss repub
Nixon's AG, Mitchel, went to prison for contempt. So should Gonzo.
In my opinion chertoff is just too damned stupid to hold that position. I fear someone worse than Gonzo. Maybe someone with the ability to do what Gonzo did and with a memory to boot.
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
Congress better cut their vacation short.
Flashback:
GAO Katrina report faults Chertoff, White House
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3629671.html
Is this who Bush will choose to replace him? And if so will the Govt's finding of his culpability in the Katrina failure come up in his confirmation hearing?
Chertoff will never be confirmed. Matter of fact, it is a good bet that the AG will have "acting" preceding his title till '09.
The timing on this is bizarre. A recess appt. is probably the reason. Egads, what next?
to be replace by Gutboy?!! the corruption is incestuous .
Ha, I'm watching this on MSNBC and Scarborough is saying this is not a "scandal" because "scandals implies a law has been broken." Then he's talking about Clinton. What fuckin clown. (paraphrasing Maher) To a republican, its not perjury unless it involves a blowjob.
Fuck AG. I hope they subpoena him and he's imprisoned.
Bush needs a new AG. Alert alert! Round up the usual suspects. Oh Cherty!
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Doesn't take much in the way of brains to say that the DOJ has decided BushCo can do whatever they want. That's what the DOJ is about anyway.... surely not working as the People's attny. :( God forbid the DOJ dish out real justice to those who truly deserve it.
Awful lot of rats leaving the sinking ship.
Reid and Bush supposedly blocked any more Bush recess appts.
Reid’s plan to block Bush’s recess appointments.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/20/reids-plan-to-block-bushs-recess-app...
Dems Work to Foil White House Recess Ploys
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003913.php
Wow, there must be something especially stinky out there for them to allow this to happen on a Monday morning. What could Gonzo possibly be sitting on to force this?
like rats leaving a sinking ship, eh?
PS: shouldn't that be "Gonzo is Gone-zo?"
I think that we should contact Reid and our individual Senators to bring the Senate back into session IMMEDIATELY to deal with the urgency of providing advise and consent to the Bush.
We wouldn't want a national emergency (cough, cough) to force this administration to make a recess appointment since there are SOOO many good people to choose from. Harriet Miers, John Yoo, Michael Chertoff, the mind boggles.
Hey, didn't bush cut a deal with the dems that he would make no recess appts during this break? Is he gonna go back on his word? What a surprise it would be if he did. Not!
I hope Harry Reid has some plans here and fast.
Is there anyone left in the DOJ now? Seems most of them quit not so long ago.
SoSickOfIt @ 10:
No sh*t. I hear John Bolton's available.
pissed off patricia @ 26:
You can't talk if you can't recall. Hmmm, I wonder what would jar his memory?
Who needs another attorney general? Most of our laws are gone.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Me too. Chertoff is a monumental fuck up already. Chertoff should have resigned or been fired after Katrina.
This is unbelievable.
I just had the worst thought.
What if Gonzales 'resigns'...but doesn't actually? And when asked about his resignation, tells everyone 'I don't recall that'?
Maybe a warrant would spark a few thoughts
Like Rove, he may want to spend some time with his family.....before he goes to prison. I want to see Bush nominate Chertoff, so the confirmation hearings will rehash Katrina again. I always thought he was more guilty than Bush or Brownie.
What's going on here? Rove leaves, Gonzalez leaves, and who is next? What's the plan behind all this? Will there be a recession appointment?
[...] Crooks and Liars: “Gonzo Is Gonzo.” [...]
I wouldn't be surprised if Bush replaced him with Lionel Hutz.
Fredo isn't gone until the perp walk or the pardon.
pissed off patricia @ 55:
Read my #30.
So what if Reid & Bush cut a deal. Pffft! Bush will write Executive Order overruling it.
Gonzo is gone but the damage he did lives on. Gonzo couldn't even get a Friday resignation right. You know, Friday resignations are supposed to be announced on Friday so the story loses steam over the weekend.
I really hate to see a good man go, which is why I really love to see this one exit.
What great attorney will Bush pick next to keep the Constitution alive? What dregs of humanity will Bush tap for Gonzo's replacement? Why can't Bush and Cheney ride off into the sunset with Rove and Gonzales? Haven't they harmed us more in six years than we can even imagine? If he picks an Alito or Roberts clone, we are done in again.
Nothin' a little white house prayer circle can't fix.
I'm sure God will tell him who to appoint.
arlen spector durring chertoff's conf hearing:
"I am really troubled by you lack of action durring katrina and I don't think you are qualified to be attorney general"
votes yea to confirm.
Wow, who the hell gets up this early to comment on a blog.....? D'oh!
G-Baby @ 56:
As they've told us thousands of times, the Republicans are the party of Family Values, as in 'needing to spend more time with my family'.
The only other exit pattern seems to be 'checking oneself into alcohol treatment'.
Kryptik @ 54:
Is Rumsfeld truly out of the DoD? Last I heard he was still cleaning up paperwork in his office.
Geno in Ptown @ 4:
Yes... Gonzales can still be subpoenaed and he can be brought back and impeached.
Despite his resignation, he can be brought back and impeached. Congress has not done this since the Civil War, but there are very good reasons that this should be done.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20061215.html
Congress can and should still impeach him because they can by a simple majority vote in the House actually ban him from ever having another government job.
The damage that has been done by this administration to our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Legal system, military, our Treasury... indeed the fabric of America... demand an accounting!
As Rep. J. Proctor Knott said in 1876, "to teach them that if they should fall under like temptations they will fall, like Lucifer, never to rise again."
Heck of a job Gonzie.
They are saying on FOX that Paul Clement may be the temp AG or permanent.
How about Patrick Fitzgerald for the job?
As has been the trend lately, a homosexual affair is usually behind about 50% of republican resignations these days.
Anonymoo @ 67:
Too bad JAIL isn't in that exit pattern.
And to think that he was on the A list for the SCotUS.......what were they thinking??...OH yeah...Chertoff....rrrrriiiggghhhhtttt!
woohoo!
btw - buchanan just phoned in to the joe scarborough show and said that gonzo wasn't corrupt and conniving, he was just stupid and incompetent.... when will we have had enough of this poor excuse? is incompetence really supposed to be better? is it acceptable on any level when it comes to government officials? and have any of these republican apologists noticed just how wide-spread this disorder is in the bush administration? i mean, come on already!!
Chertoff in (?), Gonzo out.
Habeas corpus is still MIA, Gitmo is still open, torture is still going on, renditions continue, and they're expanding their ability to spy on us. While the "loyal opposition" sits by and wags its collective tail.
Don't waste too much energy doing the happy dance, folks.
Maybe it will be Orin so he could violate his own act.
Dammit all!! I thought I was going to get to say it first: Gonzo is Gone-zo!
Surely there is someone else out there with no respect for human rights that can fill the job.
Bush should name one of the great USAs that got fired.
ha like that will happen!
I bet another one on the short list is Ted Olson. His wife was killed on one of the 9-11 planes and the anniversary of that date is coming up. Who could vote against him with those thoughts in mind? I mean they should but would they?
I should be thrilled, but I have an ominous feeling about the timing of it all...
Patrick Leahy gets a case of cold beer for standing his ground!
And Chertoff had better not stand in the way of any investigation. Let the investigations continue! We STILL need to know who created that USA termination list. This resignation does not stop that.
And let the impeachment of Dick Cheney commence......
Andy @ 77:
That sounds kinda dirty.
jon stewart's on vacation this week, huh?
dang dang dang!!!
Wow, with congress on recess, and the AG stepping down, who will there
be for ANY oversight should Bush declare Martial Law. There will be no
other 2 branches of government 'available'.....and tomorrow there's supposed
to be a full lunar eclipse. something smells fishy.
well Chertoff would be even worse...and I can't help but wonder why he lied all weekend..oh, that 's right - he is good at lying...but if it is Chertoff- then we do indeed have a complete police state...that would suck more than ever....gonzo needs to do time...as does rove...maybe then we would have OUR country back....maybe...
SoSickOfIt @ 68:
He's not gone. They just made it so he's now completely invisible to and safe from any public scrutiny. He's a member of Cheney's invisible non-executive, non-legislative, unaccountable secret government.
Doesn't matter who the next AG will be. They're all in the same boat.... nothing will change, except to get worser. And we all know it can.
When will the investigations begin? Send these people to JAIL.
another random thought: could they appoint giuliani to replace gonzo? i mean, his campaign is losing momentum & he's never gonna get elected...
Sadly, this is a nation specifically designed to serve the white male Christian. Gonzo got the job because the Repubs are good at finding those rare people of various races whose attitudes, education and religion are just like the white people and placing them in quite publicly visible positions. It hides the GOP's true nature of severe racism and elitism and helps get more minority votes. Without Condi or Colin Powell or Alberto Gonzales the GOP never would've been able to pretend they won the election in 2000 and 2004 because the number of votes for the other guy them would be irrefutable.
Ding dong the witch is dead!
Unfortunately Bush is rumored to be picking Chertoff to replace him. That is truly frightening.
Si! Despues de todo de sus porquerias, Senor Gonzales ya tiene tiempo para su familia....Traduccion: Ya tiene tiempo a arreglar sus maletas para viajar al rancho en PARAGUAY. Mientras el "Bobo de Katrina" tome el posicion...Pues, Gracias por Salir, Cabron!!!
It's interesting that as of 8:15am CST, the Drudge Report still has not reported this. Somebody call Jeff Gannon and tell him to wake up Matt and tell him the news.
not to go off topic, but when I was reading the NYT article about Gonzo I saw this little (and I mean little) ditty about Dodd's office in Hartford getting broken into. Interesting...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/washington/27dodd.html?ex=1345867200&e...
SonOfLiberty @ 7:
"Halt! Or we shall say 'Halt!' again! Heyyyy! We're serious!honest!We mean it!"
"we shall write a strongly-worded letter...if we don't get satisfaction, we'll write ANOTHER strongly-worded letter! Won't our constituents admire our strength and tenacity!"
pfffft!
I hope this doesn't screw up the Preznits vacation......it'd be a shame to have him come back to work over something as trivial as this....what's his day off count now anyway?
I have a bad feeling about this. . . .
Could be Bush it getting all of his old friends out to protect them -- meaning he's getting ready to do something crazy. . .
Dick next, and then W. Please, God, please.
Just two loyal bushies left: Condi and Cheney. Impeach them both.
SoSickOfIt @ 88:
That's the sad fact.
There's no joy in knowing a corrupt, unqualified, puppet AG is finally being forced to leave because we all know that his replacement will be every bit as bad and most likely infinitely WORSE.
Why is he going now? Who knows. It certainly isn't because shrub co. is feeling any real pressure from congress or the senate or the dems or anyone for that matter. It's got to be something along the lines of a political move. They've got to get rid of the "distraction" of the "AG thing" so they can have a clear stage when the time comes to wheel out 'Patreus the dancing soldier puppet'. They can't have those annoying journalist types asking questions about OLD and UNIMPORTANT stuff like the gutting of the constitution and illegal DOJ activities while the all singing, all dancing patreus is doing his "What a Fabulous Surge We're Having" act for the cameras.
He’s not gone. They just made it so he’s now completely invisible to and safe from any public scrutiny. He’s a member of Cheney’s invisible non-executive, non-legislative, unaccountable secret government.
I used to think talk like this was crazy talk.
Not since 2000, I don't.
The question is will he remember he resigned. Maybe he'll just show up for work on Monday.
Now we know what the "gut feeling" chertoff had was all about.
Bush could have refused gonzo's resignation. Why didn't he?
Gonzo will speak on tv at ten thirty and bush will release a statement sometime after that according to MSNBC.
My short lived happiness over this resignation is quickly being replaced by long lived dread and fear.
He wants to spend more time with his defense attorney.
It actually seems like a surge of Bush officials heading for the door.
capnmike @ 93:
Please translate.. I just tried to post something about Paraguay and it wouldn't take.
As for who is left. Condi doesn't bother me. She's busy somewhere posing for pictures with somebody. Cheney, he's a whole different story. Cheney might resign before the 08 elections just to give one of the repub candidates a shot at his seat for a little while so they would get a shit load of free publicity.
According to HuffPo, Skeletor (Chertoff) will be nominated to replace Fredo! Heckuva job, Busholini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perfect! Bring Chertoff front and center just as the country is thinking of the anniversary of the horrible Katrina disaster. Remind everyone of the uselessness of this man. Talk about timing being everything.
Mudshark @ 105:
Well well well......I'm looking at myself ...but it ain't me..............don't mean to bust yer bubble buddy....but...ya can't do this.
Hang on...
Isn't Tom Delay looking for a job these days?
QuakerDave @ 76:
Well said... this changes absolutely nothing!
Just couldn't wait for the lawmakers to make it back to DC could he?
I get the feeling that they are taking Bush apart piece by piece.
Bush has a colonoscopy, then they announced that they removed Bush's brain (or was that a polyp?), and now his bosom buddy "I call him Fredo".
Gonzo is only 51 - plenty of time to work for future republican administrations. Most likely he'll have a lucrative and long career ahead of him. He should be in jail, of course, but the Dems will drop him like a hot potato now that he's resigned. It looks as though nobody in this lawless administration will be held accountable for anything. Business as usual.
Position available:
Attorney General, United States
No experience necessary. Must love fetuses, Jesus and have a blind respect for authority, not law.
I guess since Bush's brain isn't there to help Bush defend him, the writing was on the wall.
jay @ 66:
Oh, you've got Sphinctor down pat, thank you!
mudshark @ 111:
I have a secret admirer......woooooHoooooo....what are you doing in a place like this?
I'm looking at myself ...but it ain't me..............
mea culpa - first timer. i'll never do it again.
Bring back Brownie!!
Mudshark @ 121:
d'oh
Forget Chertoff, Rove is out of a job. It would be a fitting job for him since the DOJ has been completely politicized by Rove, he should get the credit. Besides, the confirmation hearing would be even better.
Make the bed in cell block A, it's Bedtime for Gonzo.
Its a good thing seeing him leave.
The rats are definitively leaving the ship.
Personally i wonder who would be willing to soil his reputation by actually taking a job in the Bush presidency at this point. Kind of career ending move if you ask me.
Can Reid go to Washington and declare that the Senate is back in session with just him, or perhaps a handfull of others?
Mudshark @ 121:
Just curious...why the moniker?you wouldn't be a zappa fan would you?
Time to pull Cheney out of his spider hole next.
Bush should follow his administration's lead and quit to 'spend time with the family'
I wonder if all of these Administration Officials are leaving because they don't want to go thru the same kind of build up to Iran that we had for Iraq?
There is no point in prosecuting any of these fucks until we take away dubya's pardoning pen. 2009 isn't that far away.
V V
mudshark @ 128:
It' the name of my sailboat and about a gazillion other passwords - oops again
ALMOST 10:00 AM EASTERN TIME AND STILL NOTHING POSTED ON DRUDGE!!!
DEVELOPING!
Bush has lost his Mini Me.
The office of the Attorney General issued a brief statement saying only that Mr. Gonzales wishes to return to Texas and spend more time with Karl Rove.
homer www.altara.blogspot.com
In the typical Bush mafia style, Fredo woke Friday morning to find Michael Chertoff's head in his bed...immediately left the gun and took the cannoli. Expected to announce this morning that he is leaving for family reasons, and looks forward to spending many happy hours interrogating and waterboarding the wife and kids.
oops has been taken......but I haven't seen oops again though.
Hey we thought Ashcroft was bad, we got Gonzo. Rumor next is Chertoff.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Vitam Vas @ 132:
They can still impeach him and then ban him from ever having another government job and Presidential pardons don't mean a thing then.
This can accomplish several things.
1. Make an example of him to remind the next AG that behavior like this would be a career ender... no jobs in future administrations.
2. Any evidence can be turned over to the US attorney later for use in criminal proceedings.
If Chertoff is the new AG, then Rove can takeover the DHS. :) It's in the best interest of the country to be Republican, donchaknow.
Something big is in the works. Suspicious options trading similar to what took place in the weeks prior to 9.11. Some person(s) has/have bet $4.5 BILLION that the US stock market will DROP 30 to 50 per cent before September 21. If this happens, the investor(s) stand to lose $700 MILLION.
Prepare yourselves.
I think that GW has a little Mother-in-law apartment down on that Crawford Ranch of his set aside for Gonzo, just to keep him closeby in case GW needs a little lawyerly coverup from time to time...
You know when the Boss asks you out to lunch, he's got something to tell you. :)
Donald Duck meets Elmer Fudd
Maybe Gonzo won the big Indiana jackpot.
this is a great way to start Monday........have a great day folks..
It could be worse than Chertoff. Ted Olson has also been mentioned as a possible replacement. Ted Olson is a Republican hack who spent eight years trying to impeach Bill Clinton. He was trying to get Clinton Impeached long before anyone ever heard of Monica.
He also lead the cover up of the EPA scandal in the 1980s. Remember Ann Gorsuch and of Rita Lavelle? Lavelle went to jail. It was Ted Olson who argued executive privilege for the Reagan administration. He even had an independent counsel appointed to investigate his role in the cover up.
There are a lot of Republicans who think we've forgotten about Ted Olson's Republican hackery.
Orwell's Illegitimate Son @ 142:
I wonder if Bush would take the blame as he tries to take the credit when ever there is any good new on the economy. My guess is no, The Regime would just try to blame Bill Clinton.
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