Attorney General Alberto Gonzales survived a failed no-confidence vote in the Senate, but he’s far from out of the woods on the controversy over the sacking of eight federal attorneys and other Justice Department issues.
Congressional leaders this week issued their first subpoenas in the U.S. attorney firings, with a House committee calling former White House counsel Harriet Miers and a Senate committee calling former White House political director Sara Taylor, a close aide to Karl Rove, to testify.
The focus will be on the White House’s role in the firings and whether the traditionally independent Justice Department has been improperly politicized. This controversy isn’t going away. It’s going to heat up.
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How far back was it when Republicans were decrying the filibuster? They were demanding the elimination of the filibuster but now they use it more often than Dick Cheney uses a paper shredder.
At least Republicans are consistent with their hypocrisy and dishonesty.
Before someone uses a double negative here, “ain’t got nothing” is logically equivalent to “have something”.
Then the Dem’s ain’t got nothing! Just a fishing expedition. Gonzoles is just the flavor of the month!
Article 2, Section 9, United States Constitution:
“The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
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“There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution.”
United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, January 17, 2007.
I can see the “invasion” theory being put in play by the neo-cons.
Phantom, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Quite telling that the usual Right-Wing hacks who populate these parts want no part of defending Gonzales. Their silence practically roars.
Could it be that somewhere deep in the recesses of their Repuketile brains, a tiny seed of embarrassment has taken root? That even THEY wish that Gonzales would go away so they could stop defending someone so obviously venal and corrupt?
As for the subpeonas, good for Conyers. But of course, the White House is claiming Executive Privilege because, well, you know, it’s THEIR country.
I wonder what Sneaky Gonzales has up his sleeves to discredit his former colleagues.
I can’t see Bush allowing anone in his government to be subpoenaed. If both sides hold firm it’ll go to the sc.
Ahh, the pungent smell of fertilized flowerbeds and decaying Democratic humus in the summer time. :)
They ain’t got nothing.
The Phantom,
Indeed, the “if” part of your conditional statement particularly applies to the Democrats. But thus far, when Conyers has compromised on such matters, it’s been in the interest of keeping the story going and getting the investigation to whatever next phase it needs to reach. I, for one, am DYING to see the outlandish claims of “Executive Privilege” subjected to some real judicial review.
Lapin Koira,
Interesting thought. But frankly, I don’t think Gonzales is smart enough to devise any sort of poison pill to keep himself in place; he’s always relied on his protector, Lord Bush, to do that. Gonzales is just the consigliere, the underling. No strategy guy there: not very convincing when he lied under oath, either.
One wonders what Republican means when he says “they ain’t got nothing”–seems to be all Republican’s got in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary. Still, when it comes to the Democrats’ political unwillingness to stand on the GOP’s windpipe until it cracks, he’s got a point. Democrats have to stop being pussies. End of story. When they stand up, they win. When they compromise or triangulate, they lose.
Everything the Democrats have on the Republicans is real. Republicans are that corrupt, Republicans are that dishonest, and Republicans are that incompetent. But it’s going to take Republicans feeling the 2008 heat to finally peel away from this putrid and decaying Administration, typified by Gonzales. Once they realize that Bush’s colossal unpopularity and incompetence sticks to them, they’ll start to abandon him. When that happens, Congressional power can act as counterweight to Bush’s mad plans for attacking Iran. And if those same GOP officeholders don’t jump ship, smart Democrats will be able to run against them as Bush’s Men.
Mounting evidence? hmmm?
And just would that mounting evidence be CF2K? Have they found any? I mean, after all they were looking for evidence to convict by perjury.
Have they found of that?
or is it…
They ain’t got nothing.
:)
Alas, last time i read “they ain’t got nothing” we were talking about ole scooter…..Patience comes to those that wait, gonzos day is coming.
Republican, I know it’s not in your nature to actually pay attentions to the news–you’re more of a head-in-sand kind of guy–but the subpoenas issued today to Miers and Taylor (do you even know who they are?) were for emails discussing how to handle some of the 8 attorneys and their replacements.
Now, I know you really, really, don’t want to believe it, but Harriet Miers really is not allowed to be telling the DOJ who to fire and who to hire.
But I know it’s much easier to suck on the Shrub tailpipe than to actually know what’s going on.They ain’t got nothing, Republikhan. You just keep telling yourself that. Be sure to wipe yourself clean after the show–Daddy don’t like no sloppy whores.
Repubican,
No ‘mounting evidence’ regarding Gonzales? How ’bout this?
“The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sought to improperly influence the testimony of a departing senior aide, two of its senior officials said yesterday, adding a new dimension to the troubles already besetting the nation’s chief law enforcement official.
The Justice Department officials, in a letter released yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, said their inquiry into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys includes an examination of a meeting Gonzales held in mid-March with his then-aide Monica M. Goodling, who testified last month that the attorney general’s comments during the session made her feel “a little uncomfortable.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400809.html?hpid=topnews
You get that, Repube? The JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is investigating Alberto Gonzales, who happens to be the HEAD of the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. But still, ‘they got nothing?’
Let me get you a spoon, Repubican, so you can lap up some of the chunky, acidic nonsense you regurgitate.
I repeat: Everything the Democrats have on the Republicans is real. Republicans are that corrupt, Republicans are that dishonest, and Republicans are that incompetent. Just because Gonzales is willing to lie, Repubican, and you’re willing to lie by denying that he lies, doesn’t mean that the rest of the country is content to let this bunch of moral five-year-olds–you included–go on getting away with things indefinitely.
You ought to get yourself a hobby, Repubican, that doesn’t require you to humiliate yourself on command quite so regularly. Maybe buy a metal detector and check public parks for lost diamonds, or take up macrame and make plant holders. Because your career as a partisan hack isn’t going so well at the moment.