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Gonzales to Hold Press Conference
Just over the transom... as calls for his resignation get louder, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be holding a press conference at the Department of Justice at 2:00 PM today.
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...to announce a breakthrough in the Niger uranium forgeries....?
March 13, 2007 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe they've caught Osama?
March 13, 2007 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he will announce menu changes at the DOJ cafeteria...
March 13, 2007 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
He will discuss 70's hairstyles.
March 13, 2007 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
To recieve his Medal of Freedom(corruption)
March 13, 2007 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really do not think he's getting out of this one. He hasn't had long enough to come up with a resignation speech, so this should be good. Who's got the presser?
March 13, 2007 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're putting the drapes back over the breasts of the statues at the Great Hall of the Department of Justice.
March 13, 2007 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
We haven't had a good terra alert in a while. Maybe they've interdicted another big terra plot!
March 13, 2007 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Something about how Josh Marshall would not have broken this story were in not for his wife... who works for the CIA.
March 13, 2007 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
He caught the anthrax culprit? how about the fact we almost ended up with the reptilian Miers on the supreme court?
March 13, 2007 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
We can only hope the AJ announces his immediate resignation at the scheluled press conference. Then Bush sends a lap dog replacement to the Senate for confirmation. The Senate delays the confirmation seemingly forever. NO AJ IS BETTER THAN ANY BUSH APPOINTEE.
March 13, 2007 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spector becomes the next AG?
March 13, 2007 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
My interest in politics has increased so much in the past 6 months that I know that the Attorney General is going to give a press conference in 2.5 hours and I have an idea or rather ideas of what he might say.
Would he still be eligible for arrest and indictment if he quits today?
March 13, 2007 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's discovered a connection between the recent Boston terrorist bomb incident and the 80's Korean-based cult of Sun Myung Moon
March 13, 2007 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Curt Weldon and Conrad Burns indicted for laundering money through Belarus?
March 13, 2007 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
No way he lays down. This will be typical smug, arrogant, and pompous AG defending his role, or even more ludicrously, "pledging to get all the answers"...
No chance this is a resignation speech. Nada.
March 13, 2007 12:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
There can be only two reasons for the press conference:
1] To Resign.
2] To Lie.
My money's on #2.
March 13, 2007 12:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
That the Federal Election Commission has discovered what Lieberman did with $387,000 in petty cash from his campaign and the Justice Department will now indict?
March 13, 2007 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to announce that Leahy is an enemy combatant and has been taken to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
March 13, 2007 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Announcing that he will reveal all in a special exclusive one-on-one interview with Jay Carney to air on ABC January 21st 2009
March 13, 2007 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
None of the above. He's entering the Republican race for President . . .
March 13, 2007 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Insiders tell me he´s going to announce that he has once again modified the Constitution to make lying to Congress and politically motivated firings of USAs legal for the Attorney General.
March 13, 2007 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope someone brings up the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973. Yes, Richard Nixon had the legal authority to fire Archibald Cox, just as Gonzales will claim the legal authority to fire US attorneys. But this act was the beginning of the end for Nixon.
Gonzales is the main man whispering in Bush's ear that he is a king, that he can do anything. If he won't resign, then Congress needs to remove him, by impeachment if necessary.
March 13, 2007 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
He will declare our outrage as "quiant" with regard to Attorneygate...
March 13, 2007 12:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to announce a "thorough investigation" into how Bill Clinton caused all this to happen.
March 13, 2007 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
David Addington will soon have his Gonzales moment as well.
All of the respective houses of cards built on shaky legal foundations are beginning to quake.
March 13, 2007 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to announce Libby's pardon, along with pre-emptive pardons of Rove, Cheney, Armitage, and Meiers.
March 13, 2007 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is also not a hair question.
March 13, 2007 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Mr. Attorney General, stand up!"
"I AM standing up."
World's shortest AG announces his retirement...
March 13, 2007 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Abu Gonzales will announce that Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska is considering a run for POTUS.
March 13, 2007 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Terror alert!
March 13, 2007 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, he's either going to announce the break-up of a big child-porn ring to take our attention off this mess, or he's going to continue to muddy the water, deny WH involvement, etc.
The lies are accumulating, the liars are falling all over themselves, Leahy's sharpening his knives, and looking for blood. I want a front-row seat for that show - it's long overdue.
March 13, 2007 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
To remind everyone that requiring the Attorney General to testify truthfully under oath to Congress demoralizes our troops and plays into the hands of the al Qaeda types.
March 13, 2007 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
He will announce that Michael Moore is fat.
March 13, 2007 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
He is going to announce that henceforth he wishes to be known as "Speedy".
March 13, 2007 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have a feeling we are about to learn what this administration considers to be sacrifice. I doubt he's going to resign, unless there would be a legal benefit to doing so, and I imagine Bush would be headed back from wherever he's escaped to if it were so.
If he's not resigning, he's got to mention Sampson somehow though, doesn't he? I wonder how he'll spin it.
March 13, 2007 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
he will say that he cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.
Even it is of himself.
March 13, 2007 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Furthermore, if there is no huge announcement of catching Osama or whatever, that something like that will never happen as a distraction. They would have dropped that news by now if they had it waiting in the wings.
March 13, 2007 1:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm with Punchy and dem-a-gog.
And I love that my security code word for this is collar.
March 13, 2007 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's gonna announce that he just saved a bunch of money on his car insurance by switching to GEICO.
March 13, 2007 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
He'll announce that he's taking full responsibility for the scandal. Press coverage should therefore end.
March 13, 2007 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
To think Ashcroft may have been better...
March 13, 2007 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to announce that, at this time, Chuck Hagel is not running for President in 2008.
March 13, 2007 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
He will announce a special prosecutor to look into the US Attorney's scandal. I give you special prosecutor John Yoo.
March 13, 2007 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
He is announcing that he is relocating to Dubai....
March 13, 2007 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's the over-under on this? I know I'm gonna be in the minority on this, but I'm going with resignation. This thing is like a Cat 4 over the gulf-loop current.
March 13, 2007 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Announcing that they're bringing back Ashcroft.
March 13, 2007 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll take that bet, fwiffo. You can pay me tomorrow.
March 13, 2007 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
He will announce that, as of this very moment, all 93 US Attorneys are fired and that, in the interests of efficiency and justice, all of their offices are being consolidated into a single office to be run by Harriet Miers.
March 13, 2007 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
What about Harriet Miers for special prosecutor?
March 13, 2007 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
He'll announce that he's going into rehab.
March 13, 2007 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
hes starting a committee to look into whats wrong with his office...and then will proceed to ignore the findings, par usual.
March 13, 2007 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
he's found the missing 17 minutes of Nixon tape!
hallelujah!
March 13, 2007 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, it's working so well that they brought back the rest of the team.
Is John Mitchell still alive?
March 13, 2007 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's indicting Joe Wilson.
March 13, 2007 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's announcing they're dropping the term "Freedom Fries" and we can all go back to calling them French Fries.
March 13, 2007 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's finally going to answer questions about all those photos of him getting out of cars without panties on.
March 13, 2007 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
ummm...hes gonna announce his resident status?
March 13, 2007 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I am the father of Lyndie England's baby. And yes, I make it wear a hood."
March 13, 2007 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
...FBI is to blame?
March 13, 2007 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
None of the above. He's going to announce that he and Laura have a lovechild in Texas who is about to announce to the world who his parents are. Then he will announce that the younbg man already 30 years old will be coming to the DOJ to work for him as an Executive Assistant. You heard it here first.
March 13, 2007 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
This gets better and better. (or worser and worswer) The DOJ/USAO has been sliding downhill for a long time. Meese's pieces wanted litmus tests for USA's, and AUSA's; GHW Bush replaced competence with political hacks; WJC fired all of the USA's save a four or five with powerful Senator friends and then signed on a bunch of amateurs; and now, this.
March 13, 2007 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ottoe: Jay Carney is publicly enjoying the taste of crow right now.
Gotta give him a little credit.
Let's hope he learned something from this experience.
March 13, 2007 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Argh! The HTML was stripped outta my comment.
Click on my name for Jay Carney's Swampland posting giving credit where credit is due.
March 13, 2007 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he'll announce charges of Teason against all the dastardly reporters including those at TPM Muckraker for exposing State Secrets about his activities. Or maybe he'll raise the terror alert level...
March 13, 2007 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to announce a new provision to the Patriot Act, which will not requiring Congressional rubber-stamping and will be retro-active back to 1783. "No person named Bush shall ever be held civially or criminally liable for anything, in perpetuity. Oh, and by the way, Martial Law has been declared. And your fiat currency is now officially worthless. Thank you very much!"
March 13, 2007 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he'll annouince that because of the increasing 'nuculer' threat posed by Iran, the president has declared martial law and will invade that country immediately.
March 13, 2007 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's firewalling.
March 13, 2007 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
He looks like a scared little puppy. This press conference could not be going worse. "I don't know all the things that go on in this building" is the message.
Can we start calling him Attorney General Alberto "I know nothing! NOTHING!" Gonzalez?
March 13, 2007 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I take full responsibility" so why is he still talking?
March 13, 2007 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
great, "we have 110,000 employees....." we are talking about his own chief of staff, not someone far removed from him. What kind of moron is Gonzales to trot that line out there multiple times??!!
March 13, 2007 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Abu "I take full responsibilty" Gonzales seems to be indicating that it must have been some "low-level bad apples." He'll be investigating it himself. Nothing to see here. Move along, people.
March 13, 2007 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, pay up! :-)
What a display!!!
Please, dear god of all things small, don't let the Dems buy this horseshit! This could be the scandal that brings BushCo down. Stay on it, Josh! There's gold in them thar hills.....
March 13, 2007 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, C.A. Toasters, nice call!
March 13, 2007 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Between the Sergeants and Privates who bear full and sole responsibility for Abu Ghraib, and the degenerates previously staffing the USA offices, Albie Gonzalez sure seems to attract a lot of "low-level bad apples".
March 13, 2007 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
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