Crossposted from Town Called Dobson & My Left Wing
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It really did defy the laws of kinetics. Gymnasts wish they could be THIS flexible!
Right before we break for lunch in Alberto Gonzales’ star turn before the Senate judiciary committee, he repeats, for about the fifth time, some crazy hokum about how anyone who criticizes the actions of the Justice Department folks involved in the recent unpleasantness is in fact “attacking the career professionals.” At which point Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., about loses it. “That’s like saying anyone who disagrees with the president’s policy on the war is attacking the soldiers,” he bellows. For Gonzales to even try to turn this hearing into a referendum on the career professionals at DoJ is preposterous. The issue here is what his craven, unhinged staff tried to do to the serious career professionals, and everyone here–except Gonzales–seems to recognize that.
Gonzales didn’t seem to recollect anything – where he was, why attorneys were fired, he even faltered on the issue of “senior DOJ leadership.” Does he even know where the DOJ is located? Has his mother put his house key on a cord around his neck?
God, I hope so.
