Bush sez, “”I haven’t seen Congress say [Gonzales has] done anything wrong … Why would I hold someone accountable who has done nothing wrong?”
Maybe George W. Bush should listen to Arlen Specter who, last time I checked, is a member of Congress.
A group of Democratic congressmen have been seeking Gonzales’ impeachment over his role in the dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys. Specter has recently broken from party ranks to openly question the attorney general during senate judiciary committee hearings.
Specter described himself as on a “one-man crusade” against Gonzales, but an impeachment, he said, would tie up both houses of Congress and be “a big distraction.”
“I think we have ways of getting rid of (Gonzales) otherwise,” he said.
One audience member pressed the Republican senator about opening investigations into whether the government played a role in staging the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or allowed them to happen.
Specter said he had seen the FBI reports and believes the U.S. government played no role in the attacks, but added, “I don’t question the reason for your skepticism. Government does a lot of things.” And, he added, “Alberto Gonzales does a lot of things.”
The ranking member (a Republican) of the Senate Judiciary Committee describes himself as on a “one-man crusade against Gonzales” and implies his performance is so bad that it can plausibly lead to speculation that 9/11 was an inside job, and Bush doesn’t hear a thing.
Why don’t we contact Arlen Specter and tell him that he needs to speak louder because the President still hasn’t heard him.
Washington Office:
711 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-3802
Phone: (202) 224-4254
Fax: (202) 228-1229Main District Office:
600 Arch St., #9400
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: (215) 597-7200
Fax: (215) 597-0406
The President also said, “Lewis Libby was held accountable”, and that he paid a heavy price. Maybe mention to Specter’s staff that you don’t really agree with that assessment either.
“One-man crusade”? He has an interesting defintion of both the terms one man and crusade…and he’s the cretin who didn’t swear Gonzales in for his Senate performance last year, knowing the AG was going to lie.
Specter doesn’t want Bush to hear him, he’s just putting on a show for the folks back home, and then heading back to DC to support the status quo.
From Christy:
In some weird, sick, watching a train wreck sort of way this makes me want to run home and watch this press conference, and that scares me.
Man, I think I need a vacation.
Arlen Specter is the Emily Litella of Congress.
I’ll believe Specter really wants Gonzales gone and isn’t just gathering ammo for his next campaign when he does something other than roll over, expose his belly, and say “Never mind!” when he gets pushback.
Arlen=Emily Litella.
That made me smile.
Amen.
Please don’t send this cretin back. Booman and the PA folks–please do everything to get a progressive who will kick his backside all over PA and OUT of the Senate.
So…when he is up, anyway?
2010.
I still think he will retire before or just after 2008, why does he want to be in the minority when he is ill and disliked by both sides base.
I called, the office was polite as usual. They claimed that the Senator doesn’t want to rush to judgement and that he is looking into it. I commended them for the need for rigor, and he claimed he would pass on my interest in the subject.
Maybe Bush is not the “hearer.” Maybe he is not the “remember.” In the stories about Bush’s Lyme disease, I’ve seen that it can cause lack of concentration and short term memory problems.
I wonder if he really had it or they had to search for some plausible explanation. Not that they would lie or anything.
specter is full of crap/ He talks the talk but he has never walked the walk. When he needed a boost in order to fend off the major threat to his reelection, bush bailed his ass out. So, don’t believe for one second that specter is not part of the family. He has a roll and he plays it well. this man cannot be trusted, not for a single second.And don’t forget it ever.
And again, Amen. (See above)
I’d actually send money to see this creep defeated. He talks a good game, but he has the spine of an earthworm. AND he’s a nasty piece of work.
He will do as he is told. He shouldn’t be rewarded, again, for it.
Specter and credibility have long since parted ways.
He has proven himself to be nothing more than a hollow vessel that is playing a useful role for the Bush Administration. He allows the President a convenient frame to be presented that he is confronting questions from both sides of the aisle. And magically, there is all this smoke generated from Specter, but never any fire. This allows the message to be implied by the administration that there is nothing there. And also allows the Dems concerns to all be parlayed as so much political score settling since, of course, Arlen backed off after the dust settled.
He is a Grade-A political hack.
Maybe GW doesn’t watch TV. He hasn’t “seen Congress say”, is not the same as saying he hasn’t heard Congress. So it’s OK, because what he is saying is plausibly true. Who can say if GW has seen Congress accuse Gonzales or not? Even if he had the TV on, he might have had the mute button activated. Then he would have seen Congress criticize, but not hear them. Got it? (I’m auditioning to replace Tony Snow)