Here's what happens when his handlers slip out of the room.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_musings

Hmmm. I think I've heard Perino's memorized list of Gonzalez' accomplishments before: fighting terrorism, keeping predators away from our kids (ya gotta love it: the spectre of child abuse!), corrupting government...er, I mean, fighting gov't corruption, and arresting gang violence. In the same order. Yesterday.

Aw c'mon, don't mess with poor Dana. Everybody knows that "express full confidence in" is politi-code for "we make a show of standing behind a guy in trouble until we have to ax him." And Dana was simply expressing her full confidence in reporters to know just how shallow George's support can be, and how few around the WH are in such deep doo-doo to require such a shallow, ham-handed show of dubious support. That's all. C'mon!

P.S. My code word is "resign"

Sooner or later her fembot circuits will blow.

"But he has done a fantastic job at the Department of Justice. He is our number one crime fighter."

And he still looks great in the cape.

I can't bear to leave it go. It was a revealing moment during the break in testimony yesterday when Schumer waxed wistfully about the obeisance to the unwritten rules of politics of yore, saying, and I paraphrase, "If this testimony were given by an AG during the Reagan or Bush I years, the AG would have been fired already." Three simple words: Bush doesn't care.
Code word: "GOP SLOP"

Well, even some in the MSM reported that Fredo was not doing well on his "murder boards." If you have never had any experience being on your feet and answering tough questions, it's hard to pick up the knack in a couple of weeks.

Brings back memories of Harriet Miers. She'll probably have many of the same problems as Fredo if Bush takes Fred Fielding's advice and negotiates a deal for Miers, Rove, et al to testify.

And not to forget Dubya and the tell-tale bulge visible under his coat in the back at his first "debate" with Not Bush in 2004.

The cast of loyal Bushies just seem to be inept bumblers, but bumblers who have created so much pain for Iraqis and for the detainees at Gitmo and in the "black sites."

They're all from Texas. But so was my late father. He and Bush I confidants like Jim Baker do show that Texans are not inept at explaining bad things -- just loyal Bushies.

It's not positive thinking, it is rationalization.

This is what they use to re-enforce the alternate universe that let's them live with themselves...

"The President believes that the Attorney General answered all of their questions honestly and forthrightly." Then he is either a criminal also, or he is an incompetant administrator.

I just read through the newshour's transcript of their report on Gonzo's testimony yesterday. It occurred to me that the Repub's all played a part in crafting the message yesterday, Lindsey frames the message as 'personality conflicts' and once that's been established on the record for the MSM to run with, Coburn gets the kill. Gonzo can then take the fall.

Reading their transcript, its very telling.

Why didn't anyone ask AG Gonazales why Monica Goodling was prosecuting low-level criminal cases in the fall of 2004? Why is Kyle Sampson listed as a SAUSA in a 2003 appeals case that he had nothing to do with?

I gotta tell you, my instincts tell me that you are looking at the WH strategy right now....claim Abu acquitted himself, that there was no proof he did anything wrong, and that because condemnation by GOP Senators was not unanimous, that's a sign of strength.

I think Bush is going to try and tough it out. If he dumps him, it doesn't look good and worse yet, who the hell is going to want to take Abu's place for 18 months?.....and who else can Bush find who will kiss his ass so totally as Abu.

As time goes on, the increaingly easy to remember, ever shorter list, is those not (yet) asked to resign.

At least the newest press poodle seemed mostly perky while she was lying this morning . . .

Any-which-way, the reporters need to inquire why Bush 43 has had to support more staffers and officals in the last four months than his immediate predecessor did in eight years.

It is really getting old, listening to them spout the, "We serve at the pleasure of the President" line. I would love if someone would ask these buffoons if they ever considered that actually they serve at the pleasure of the American people.

Is Dana Perino the Cheney's lost daughter? She has the clipped speech like DIck and the ideological stridency of Lynn.

I wish that Helen Thomas would have replied to Ms. Perino:

"I knew Captain America. Captain America was a #1 crime fighter. And Mr. Gonzales, my dear, is no Captain America...although he is cartoonish!"

Lloyd Bentsen would have been proud!

damn, Dana Perino is cute as hell

Bush's "Full Confidence" = kiss of death.

Code word: Agagsfucked

Think of all the students who WEREN'T murdered at VA Tech on Monday...

The AG serves at the pleasure of the... (yawn)... President.
The President serves at the pleasure of the people.

The people are not pleased. Ergo, the White House response?... As Dick Cheney said to Patrick Leahy on the floor of the Senate...

Goodness gracious she's a sexy Republican,...maybe that's what Gonzo was thinking about when he ok'd the torture bill....a round with Dana would do anyone right,.....get your speedos on Alberto it time to go waterboarding with Dana.

come on now, we got to get those spokespeople from the Administration to stop smoking those little green things.

It would be very useful to discover the whereabouts of these two individuals durings their mysterious assignments with Justice. Ms. Goodling's disappearance, from just prior to the election in 2004 to the spring of 2005, is the most suspicious. A call to John Ashcroft at Regent U. might help solve that mystery. If a baby's cry is heard in the background, that might give a clue.

Really?

'After reading this, tell me that she DOESN’T
sound like the poster girl for dumb blonde jokes.
The only way Dana would be more perfect
is if she was wearing a cheerleading outfit
with a big W on it.'

and:

'It would be very useful to discover the whereabouts of these two individuals durings their mysterious assignments with Justice. Ms. Goodling's disappearance, from just prior to the election in 2004 to the spring of 2005, is the most suspicious. A call to John Ashcroft at Regent U. might help solve that mystery. If a baby's cry is heard in the background, that might give a clue.'

You know... Think about it; Dana Perino, Susan Ralston, Monica Goodling, Rachel Paulouse... I don't mean to be sexist, but in light of the wild bad-boy lifestyle of several murky Bush Administration officials (think Kyle Foggo), I really wonder how these women got their jobs and why they keep them. Their generally less-than-stellar resumes don't seem to be the main draw. I'd be the first to argue that their main value is probably their lockstep rigor in promoting Conservative values. But good old fashioned "sleeping your way to the top" could be another contender. I will say this; most of the scandal-plagued in this administration who are men seem to have some sort of youngish female "personal assistant" or liaison with whom they work closely. I hate to be base, but very often ethical weakness of the kind displayed by Bush Administration officials is indicative of other long-standing moral issues.

security code: news

I think Baby Dubya was allowed to decorate his White House as if it were an episode of Boston Legal or CSI--hot businessbabes in low-cut tight outfits who git 'er done.

One ugly idea:

Suppose Gonzo's not planning to leave because he thinks he has some dirt on, well, everyone? And further suppose that the tone-deaf, intransigent support Bush keeps spouting is because Gonzo is right? Wonder what that might look like.

I hate to admit it, but it may be time for the AG to go. Join the conversation at:

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/04/alberto-gonzales-appears-on.html#links

Whatever is in those "lost" emails must be some interesting readin', i'm tellin' ya.

I too wish Gonzales would stop pleasuring the president.

"The President believes that the Attorney General answered all of their questions honestly and forthrightly."

*psst* George. George listen. Supposedly you graduated college, you should know this. When a person makes a statement, then directly contradicts that statement, both statements cannot be considered true. It's basic math: if p=p, then p!=not p. If a statement is true, then its converse is not true.

Or maybe this is more of that "fuzzy math". I mean, we wouldn't want people to think that we were part of a reality-based community. Clearly those pesky logical facts are unAmerican, and don't support the troops.

These Republicans running our country have absolutely no shame. When are we going to rise up and hold our President, Vice President, their Chief Political Advisor and the White House Attorney General accountable to the rule of law? You know, the same rule of law Bush said in his last State of the Union was the number one reason we are in Iraq? What a coincidence how badly it's gone for America and Iraq.

Here are just a few examples in which they've broken the law:

1. Illegal warrantless spying on Americas. Gonzales even recently admitted their program did not "strictly" comply with the rule of law. Yup, it's a felony under FISA.

2. Torture. Gonzales signed off on the memos that provided legal cover for this blatant violation of the Geneva Convention and Uniform Military Code of Justice.

3. Outing a CIA agent. We all know the White House lied through its teeth that they all were not involved when every single one of them was knee deep in it. We all know they did it as payback. We all know she was a covert agent.

4. Purging prosecutors for not witchhunting Dems or turning a blind eye to crooked Repubs. It's called obstruction of justice. Despite all the deleted, oops I mean lost, records, there is more than enough proof they were all in it up to their eyeballs.

5. Lying us into the war. Put aside what now all but the die-hard right-wing nuts know was shameless demagoguery to rush us into war, there is increasing evidence that the President and his Vice President flat out lied to us.

Even if this gang weren't so damn incompetent, they still would deserve impeachment and removal. And the fact that they are is all the more reason not to waste one minute. Unless the Fox Republican spin cycle can deflect it or Bush can manuever us into another war, even these lawbreakers may not be able to avoid accountability for their lawlessness.

Let the rule of law prevail!

It's surprising that al boo hoo even remembers his name I wonder if he recalls lying.

South Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota.

The one true Presidential firing of a USA Attorney is not getting the attention it should. The way Steven Mullins was installed shows utter disdain for the separation of powers.

The Attorney General has testified under oath that he did not like the fact that Judges could appoint US Attorneys. Too f*%king bag AG AG. Just because you don't like the law, that doesn't mean you can break it, yet you did, repeatedly.

Because the Gonzales didn't like the law and he didn't the fact that the courts refused to rubber stamp an executive appointee, instead choosing their own, Gonzales tried to make a second interim appointment in South Dakota. When that didn't work, Bush stepped in to fire the court appointee and recess appoint Steven Mullins. Screw the courts, screw the Senate, all hail Bush.

This case alone seems to show enough reason to remove the AG (and the President). Why doesn't anyone seem to care?

Forget about "the politicizing of firings/hirings" and go after the illegal expansion of executive authority.

Sure the AG needs the "confidence" of the President, but he needs the confidence of the Congress too, and he doesn't have it. If Bush is unwilling to be "the decider", I certainly hope we can get a few congressmen to decide to get the ball rolling for him, over him.

As if to boast about some sort of strength we enjoy militarily, Bush today at a press conference showed a map of our outposts in downtown Bahgdad. The idiot is - like Geraldo - telling the insurgents where to set their mortars.
He is willing to cover his ass in our boys blood.
I cannot think of any, ANY defense for this asswipe.

Question: If Karl Rove is "Bush's Brain," then who is "Bush's Conscience"?

... Pat Robertson, maybe?

Bush isn't asking him to resign because Bush, Rove and Cheney are making the calls at DoJ, not Gonzales. He's just a rubber stamping figurehead.

If Gonzales resigns, you can bet that the next AG will be a recess appointment who'll never be confirmed. Bush doesn't have much longer to go in office, and he wouldn't have appointed someone like Gates at Defense if his daddy didn't tell him to. Don't expect him to appoint anyone who's any less ideological or anymore competent than Gonzales to be the new AG. Bush will want to keep his people from being indicted, at least until it's time for him to start pardoning everyone in 2008 on his way out the door.

This comic book character meme explains a lot. Unfortunately, you've got Jughead as President (or maybe Alfred E. Newman? It's a toss-up) and Dr. Doom as VP.

SC: tight -- as in Dick's costume has cut off the circulation to his brain.

Hey, Gonzo chief crime fighter cannot even catch himself when he commits a crime: Senator Domenici makes an improper call enquiring about when a politically helpful sealed indictment might proceed, Iglesias refuses to answer and does not speed up and the Senator gets upset, Gonzo learns that the Senator is upset and fires Iglesias. Gonzo's position is that the firing is proper because the Senator lost confidence in Iglesias.

Gonzo is so oblivious that he cites Senator Domenici's discontent in the Senate Hearing as the reason to fire Iglesias. If Gonzo was told or checked why Senator Domenici was upset he would have learned that the Senator's discontent rested on an improper motive seeking to get a prosecution sped up for political advantage.

So Gonzo's position at best is since I didn't realize that Senator Domenici wanted to get rid of Iglesias for improper reasons it is okay for me to have fired Iglesias because Domenici let the administration know that he was unhappy.

Gonzo is further justifies that firing retroactively on the basis that Iglesias did not report the contact from Domenici earlier to the department. ( which would, of course, allowed for a better cover story ). You have to wonder did Senator Domenici inform any one in the administration that he had called Iglesias?

Code: Horse. You can supply the rest as in happy
happy horsesh**

Anyone else want a "fantasy island" cartoon, with little Herve Gonzo standing next to Carlos Montalbon Bush, looking to the sky and saying "de Plame, de Plame!!!"?

codeword "snake", (couldn't put it in the sentence with even a modicum of this new thing called "blog decorum" so I didn't even try, ...although it might have fit quite well minus the decorum)

South Dakota; I had not heard word of that. Thanks for the tip.

I had heard that the guy from Marianas (is it Black?) was someone to look at. Anyone else hear that?

Josh mentions Maureen Dowd's tabloid trashfest of Edwards' generous haircut allowance, much like the one on The Huffington Enquirer a couple days ago. I cal this "The Mean Girls for Hillary club" although I love both their work, they really are showing their "sister" colors here.

So what's up with the Gallup poll's constant dipping numbers for Hillary? Is this the reason "the girls" have so willingly abandoned their reasonably objective perspectives? Is this their "mother" of all women's causes, thus worth lowering their journalistic standards for??

A bit early for Rove-style desperation tactics, I would think, but the writing is on the wall, (except when it is off-the-wall like these tabloid tales).

If indeed 43 and most of his cronies are now operating on the slimmest of shreds of sanity, we ought to make sure he isn't planning something totally off the wall (like another 911 incident) to save his own butt.

They ARE insane, time to face it and not let them draw it out. Remember NIXON cracking under this pressure, what makes you think 43 can take it?

kj, you can see the beginning of set 7 of the latest doc dump for the DOJ version of the story

This post:

Let's set a date now for DC. I'll get a Greyhound ticket and make them forget Abbott Hoffman and Saul Alinsky.

Posted by: whizkid
Date: April 14, 2007 02:30 AM

Travelling Greyhound? refund?

COREECTION: She meant to say "he's are number one criminal" but of course, there has been so many you can't even keep track of all the Republicans convicted of criminal behavior.

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