Gonzales Must Go

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   profmarcus on July 24, 2007 at 9:22 pm

   “The Democrats either have some self-respect and some reverence for our nation’s institutions….or they don’t. Which is it?”

   i suggest submitting this to atrios to be included in his “simple answers to simple question” dept…

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   MikeInOhio on July 24, 2007 at 9:29 pm

   After watching Gonzales go up in flames today like the Hindenburg there is really nothing left to say, BooMan.  The subject has been endlessly discussed, Democrats have expressed their absolute incredulity at the Attorney General’s cavalier and almost mocking attitude towards the Committee and to the whole sordid affair.  He obviously feels he is beyond reach if he is willing to so baldly and daringly lie to the Senate Committee.

   It is put up or shut up time.  The ball is in the Committee’s court.  It is time for them to show their hand.  Are they bluffing, are they going to fold or are they going to call the Attorney General’s hand.  The Attorney General obviously has no hesitation in going “all-in”.

   Pat, Arlen, Chuck.  What do you have to say?  We are waiting.  The whole nation is waiting.

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   dada on July 24, 2007 at 9:51 pm

   self-respect…reverence for the constitution?

   there have been no shortage of clues regarding the answer to that question over the past 6 1/2 years. it is quite clear to anyone with an iq above room temperature that abu needs to go, but then, who in this administration, including a majority of the supremes, doesn’t?

   my suspicion is that we’ll know definitively soon enough whether all the investigations and bluster since january is serious, or nothing more that anohter d.c. kabuki. if reid and pelosi recess the house and the senate for august break, per you comments earlier today, you can kiss any thoughts of impeachment of, or serious charges being brought against, anyone during the next 18 months goodbye.

   getting rid of abu would force everybody’s hand, all the way to the impeachment of the vp and pres. he’s the firewall, if he goes down, the jig is up, all the way to cheney, rove and bush.

   l sincerely doubt they have the spine to do it, tho l’d love to be proven wrong.

   

   lTMF’sA

   

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   americanforliberty on July 24, 2007 at 9:57 pm

   Gonzos getting hammered,..I see a medal of freedom in his future.

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   on July 24, 2007 at 10:01 pm

   Illuminati owned one and all!
   I get to ride my Apocalyptic horse this month.

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   TarheelDem on July 24, 2007 at 10:13 pm

   RTFO

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   fourtytwo on July 24, 2007 at 11:32 pm

   What follows is a partial list of deaths of persons connected to the family of current President George W. Bush and his father, George Herbert Walker Bush.  It does not include the Anthrax attack on Senator “Motherfucker” Leahy, since he didn’t die.  Who wants to go against these mobsters?

   Link

   Paul Wellstone
   Senator Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three of his staff and both pilots were killed when his small plane went down in Evelyth, Minnesota, on October 27, 2002. He was a vocal opponent of the Bush administration and the only real progressive in the Senate.

   Barbara Olson
   Author of “Hell to Pay” – a book critical of Hillary Clinton, killed in the Pentagon bombing. Her husband, Ted Olson, was Soliticor General in the Bush II Administration.

   Nicola Capilari
   Italian Secret Service agent murdered by America forces in Iraq trying to assassinate freed hostage and Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena, March 2005. Sgrena was warned by her captors that the Americans would try to kill her. They were right.

   Senator Henry John Heinz III
   He chaired the three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-contra affair. He died in a plane crash in April 1991.

   Margie Schoedinger
   Killed in December of 2003 by a gunshot wound to the head. Accused George W. Bush of raping her.

   Dr. David Kelly
   Dr Kelly was called to give evidence before the foreign affairs select committee of the British Parliament, and was the acknowledged source of the BBC for revealing that the Bush-Blair premise for the invasion of Iraq, namely the Weapons of Mass Destruction scenario, was a fraud. Kelly was founded dead of an “apparent suicide”, but under suspicious circumstances, July 18, 2003, at Harrowdown Hill, 45 minutes from his home.

   Colin McMillan
   President George W. Bush’s nominee to be civilian head of the Navy, “committed suicide” at his southern New Mexico ranch July 25, 2003.

   Steve Kangas
   His web site, Liberalism Resurgent, was meticulously researched and presented such a problem to Richard Scaife, that he hired a private detective to look into Kangas’ past. Steve Kangas was found in a 39th-floor bathroom outside of Scaife’s offices at One Oxford Centre, in Pittsburgh, an apparent suicide. Mr. Kangas, a very prolific writer, left no note. He had brought a fully-packed suitcase of clothes with him to Pittsburgh. He bought a burglar alarm shortly before he left for Pittsburgh. Why did he need a burglar alarm if he was going to commit suicide? An avowed advocate of gun control, he nevertheless bought a gun. What was he afraid of? Why did he go to Pittsburgh? After his death, his computer was sold for $150 and its hard drive wiped clean. Everything in his apartment was thrown away. Scaife is heavily connected to Bush I.

   Bertha Champagne
   Household servant for Marvin Bush, brother of the President, was found crushed to death by her own vehicle in a driveway in front of the Bush family home in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County on September 29, 2003. The vehicle was supposedly left in gear. No explanations have been offered as to why the vehicle did not move until Champagne was in a position to be crushed. There is a rumor that Champagne may have had incriminating knowledge of connections between the 9-11 hijackings and Marvin Bush’s companies.

   Danny Casolaro
   He was working on a book that tied together the scandals surrounding the presidency of George H. W. Bush, the Mena airport drug running operation, and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He told his friends he was going to “bring back” the head of the Octopus. Instead, his body was found in a hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 10, 1991, with slit wrists.

   Mark Lombardi
   He was an accomplished conceptual artist who, while chatting on the phone with a banker friend about the Bush savings and loan scandal, started doodling a diagram and was inspired to create a complex series of drawings and sketches that charted the details of the scandal. According to the New York Times, “He was soon charting the complex matrices of personal and professional relationships, conflict of interest, malfeasance and fraud uncovered by investigations into the major financial and political scandals of the day; to keep facts and sources straight, he created a handwritten database that now includes around 12,000 3-by-5-inch cards.” On the evening of March 22, 2000, Mark Lombardi was found hanging in his loft.

   James Hatfield
   Mr. Hatfield was the author of Fortunate Son, an unauthorized biography of George W. Bush. The book detailed Bush’s cocaine use and cover up of a cocaine arrest. He was found dead, in a motel room.

   Darlene Novinger
   Former FBI operative, January 23rd, 2003. Novinger was known to hold sensitive information on the Clinton and Bush I administration’s drug operations. Her husband murdered March 1987 when she went public with initial reports. Her father died July 8, 1993 four hours after Darlene was a guest on the Tom Valentine show. Suffered retaliation after reporting discussions by government protected drug smuggler who described contacts with Vice President George Bush and his son, Jeb Bush.

   Bob Stevens
   Mr. Stevens died of a mysterious case of anthrax. He worked as a photo editor for American Media, who owns the National Enquirer. The Bush family suffered enormous embarrassment at the hands of the Enquirer when they published a photo of daughter Jenna Bush, obviously intoxicated, cigarette in hand, cavorting on the floor with another drunken female.

   Salem bin Laden
   In 1979 Bush business Arbusto Energy obtained financing from James Bath, a close family friend. Bath had extensive ties to BCCI and the bin Laden family. Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, the brother of Osama bin Laden. It is well known in certain circles that the Arbusto money came straight from Salem bin Laden, although Bush denies it. Salem bin Laden died when for no apparent reason, he flew his airplane into power lines where it became entangled, and fell 150 feet to the ground. “He was a very experienced pilot. He was a good pilot. We just can’t understand why he decided to go right instead of left,” recalled airstrip owner Earl May field.

   John O’Neill
   He was Director of Counterterrorism at the New York offices of the F.B.I. until he resigned in August 2001. One of the world’s top experts on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he grew to believe that “all the answers” regarding what they needed to destroy Al Qaeda lay in Saudi Arabia. However, starting in January 2001, Bush blocked all efforts by Mr. O’Neill to investigate Saudi ties to bin Laden. In the summer of 2001 O’Neill declared that the main obstacles to his investigation were U.S. oil interests. In late August, a frustrated O’Neill quit the FBI and took a position as head of security for the World Trade Center. On O’Neill’s second day of work on the 34th floor, the WTC is hit by the first plane. O’Neill makes it out of the building safely, calls his son to say he is OK,. then goes into the other tower to help guide those still inside to safety. Minutes later, O’Neill, along with hundreds of others, is dead, killed by the terrorist the Bush administration refused to allow him to pursue to the best of his ability.

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     BooMan on July 24, 2007 at 11:42 pm

     this list makes no sense.  Why is Olson on a list with Lombardi and Casolaro?

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       americanforliberty on July 25, 2007 at 12:11 am

       Kinda let it be, reminds me of all the B.S. the Republicans use to do Prez. Clinton…who died within 7 degrees of Clinton..it was always Bill’s hand on the trigger.

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     meagert on July 25, 2007 at 12:37 am

     Kennedy.

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   Oui on July 25, 2007 at 5:25 am

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   Senators Signal Gonzales Perjury Inquiry over Spying Testimony
    

   (TPM) – Gonzales’s “no-dissent” testimony sought to assure outraged Senators that the Justice Department had complete confidence in the controversial warrantless surveillance program known as the TSP, which was first disclosed by the New York Times in December 2005. But that line was cast into serious doubt by ex-Deputy Attorney General James Comey’s May testimony that he thought the TSP was illegal during a stint as acting attorney general in March 2004. Indeed, the top echelon of Justice Department leadership was prepared to resign over the president’s decision to continue a surveillance program without Department authorization.  

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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     Zandar1 on July 25, 2007 at 8:09 am

     Let’s step back for a second.

     If there’s any single human being on Earth who should understand the gravity of committing perjury (lying) and contempt (refusing to answer questions) before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the group that has oversight over the entire Justice Department, it should be this nation’s top lawyer.

     And yet here he is, committing perjury and contempt.

     Gonzales clearly at this point not only believes he’s immune to prosecution on these points, he believes he is immune to any adverse consequences whatsoever.  The wingnuts say in fact we should pity the man for how badly he was savaged by those mean, mean Democrats.

     Normally you wouldn’t think of the Attorney General of the United States as an underdog, but reading the AP’s account, it’s hard not to sympathize with Gonzales as a relatively rational witness in a forum where truth is beside the point.

     Emphasis mine.

     Indeed, the divide here is simple, to Democrats, getting at the truth is the point of the matter.  But to Republicans, the point of all this is that the truth is beside the point.

     That’s where we are in 2007.  Who will prosecute these perjury and contempt charges?  Not the Bush Executive Branch.  

     ITMFA.  Now.  Immediately.

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       stormkite on July 25, 2007 at 10:59 am

       The D’s, like the R’s, are not concerned with the “truth of the matter” in the slightest (except possibly in a negative way, keeping it OUT of the general public discussion).  They’re concerned with building and keeping enough political/contribution support to win the 2008 elections and perhaps rebuild a viable/electable/well-funded political faction.

       As much as we’d all like to see the Shrubberies gone, “OfftheTable” Pelosi, “LockEmUp” Conyers, and the rest serve as a valuable reminder that we must be careful NOT to fall into the classic “The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend” trap. Just because one guy wears a black hat doesn’t mean the other wears white.

       Even if they do eventually see enough advantage to themselves in standing up to the Reich Wing to actually do something besides posture for the steno services, they won’t magically become my friends, my allies, or any more likely than the R’s to be concerned about the things I and people like me (the ones who can’t make 6-figure “good cause” contributions, can’t send certain other people’s kids to elite colleges, set up tax sheltered foundations for retired congresscritters in the Bahamas, stuff like that) need or care about.  

       They’re not going to stop or reverse the power grabs, but perhaps – just perhaps – switching the polarity will slow the process down just enough to let the “who and what are we as a nation?” conversation happen.

       I don’t know.  I don’t see a lot of evidence that the population at large even WANTS to have that conversation, and I’m continuing to prepare for that one-way trip in the near future, but I’ve been known to underestimate people before, once or twice, so I’m not ruling it out yet.

       I AM still packing.