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Wanted: Disgraced Former Administration Official with Zero Credibility
Somehow things just aren't working out for Alberto Gonzales:
Alberto R. Gonzales, like many others recently unemployed, has discovered how difficult it can be to find a new job. Mr. Gonzales, the former attorney general, who was forced to resign last year, has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster, Washington lawyers and his associates said in recent interviews....The greatest impediment to Mr. Gonzales's being offered the kind of high-salary job being snagged these days by lesser Justice Department officials, many lawyers agree, is his performance during his last few months in office. In that period, he was openly criticized by lawmakers for being untruthful in his sworn testimony. His conduct is being investigated by the Office of the Inspector General of the Justice Department, which could recommend actions from exonerating him to recommending criminal charges.













There is karma after all. It's not instant, but it's faster than I feared it might be, if it happened at all.
What he has sown, so shall he reap.
April 14, 2008 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gonzales was a nobody until Bush befriended him,
and like that biblical saying; "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", Gonzales will fade into History to again become a nobody.
April 14, 2008 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, if only Gonzales had the linguistic abilities of someone like say, Prof. John Yoo ... There are sooooo many lucrative opportunities for lawyers with expertise in torture and unlimited executive power in North Korea.
April 14, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, at least he's doing an alright job as Derek Jeter's backup!
April 14, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
When the Bush retires to Dallas after 1/20/09 I am sure Alberto can continue being the good little Bush family boy by mowing little Georgie's yard and trimming the shrubs if all else fails.
April 14, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
For some reason, I can see him being a greeter somewhere. Offering people a disingenous greeting and uncomfortable sweaty handshake.
April 14, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd put him in the running for G.W.'s next probable appropriate employment opportunity: HipHop Clown
April 14, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
How soon till he's Fox's new legal correspondent?
April 14, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
The intriguing thing here for Mr. Gonzales is that he has a choice. He can go out like this, a skid mark on the underwear of history. Or. He can turn it around and become a national hero by taking down the Bushies. This is America, the land of "any publicity is good publicity". He can take it from here to governor of something if he plays it right.
April 14, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
One can only hope that this means they've finally run out of money to fund wingnut welfare cases.
There IS apparently a limit to the amount of incompetent flotsam and jetsam that can be supported in the rightwing biosphere.
On the other hand, we've got self professed yet un-indicted war criminals in the White House, so Gonzales' replacement is clearly doing his a good job.
Enjoy.
April 14, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I say it's ethnic discrimination that is preventing Gonzo from landing a plum job like other disgraced incompetent Bu$hco hacks. If he was a White unqualified, dull-witted boob, he'd have a bushel of high paying offers. But, because he's a Hispanic unqualified, dull-witted boob, he's SOL.
Maybe he can get the Justice Dept (that he filled with religitards) to look into this example of discrimination?
April 14, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
The reason Bush wanted to be president was to pad his resume on his way to being Baseball Commissioner. I'm sure he'll find 'berto a plum job when he assumes his new duties.
April 14, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Awwww ...
I expect many others will taste the bitter fruit of loyalty to the Bushes.
Come February 2009, how many Bush loyalists with travel internationally?
Assuming, of course, we have an honest election in November.
April 14, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not forget Bush's ranch in Paraguay. Apparently Paraguay has passed a law giving amnesty to the Bush people against war crimes indictments.
There may be room for Gonzales down there. Perhaps they will need a translator. Does Alberto speak Spanish?
April 15, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Can U direct me to more info (of a concrete nature) regarding Mr. Bush's "rank in Paraguay"?
Thanks so much.
June 7, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Given his intimate knowledge of what actions may result "pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death", you'd think a law firm protecting the interest of the HMOs would pick Gonzo right up.
In addition, Gonzo has exactly the kind of ethical system that perfectly in line with the big HMOs. It's a win-win.
April 14, 2008 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want them to disbar Alberto "I Don't Remember / I Don't Recall" Gonzales permanently.
They can line up John "I Like Torture" Yoo at the same time.
April 14, 2008 6:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
bush's "firewall" has outlived his usefulness. there is no second act for a used condom ...
April 14, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I can't get a job. Wah!"
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
April 14, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm. . . I wonder, if he had instead told the complete damning truth, admitted wrongdoing, resigned, maybe even caused the impeachment of Bush/Cheney, would his life have turned out any better after? He probably would have been immediately disbarred, and NEVER have a job in Law again; as it stands now he may still be able to find that legal position with some right-wing think-tank (in say, 10 years, after the public has forgotten him).
I'm not defending him, he made the wrong choices long before lying to congress, but realistically once he made those choices he was screwed; it was immoral to condone torture, it was immoral to enforce political purges, it was immoral to lie under oath, and his lack of morals was exposed either way. Perhaps if he had been a better liar he could have gotten away with it, but considering they prepped him for days before his testimony, I think there was no way he could lie his way out of it and still appear either honest or competent.
April 15, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
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April 15, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
My respect for law firms rises.
April 15, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I say it's ethnic discrimination that is preventing Gonzo from landing a plum job like other disgraced incompetent Bu$hco hacks. If he was a White unqualified, dull-witted boob, he'd have a bushel of high paying offers. But, because he's a Hispanic unqualified, dull-witted boob, he's SOL.
"Maybe he can get the Justice Dept (that he filled with religitards) to look into this example of discrimination?
"Posted by CParis"
Nope. Not true.
Puffessor John Yoo returned to Boalt School of Law, U. Cal./Berkeley (where he got tenure in 1999), after having enthusiastically fulfilled the request that he falsely give the appearance of legality not only to the war crime of torture (which cannot be made legal; and attempts to make it legal are themselves illegal), but also to the theory of dictatorship called "Unitary Executive".
And also found that the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to military operations within the U.S. during wartime.
Yet Boalt/and Dean Edley thereof are having a difficult time seeing through their political inertia to the light on the point, concerning which Edley released a statement, in response to deamnds that Yoo be fired for being a hack and a war criminal, defending "academic freedom," and essentially ignoring a number of rules which apply to such as John Yoo (I suspect his favorite puffesser as a student happened by coincidence to be named John Yoo; or he taught Yoo) in order to do nothing.
"Es not my job!" is his philosophical position.
Interestingly, though, in the title of his statment he did use the words "The Torture Memoes" without putting them in quotes, which would have cast his doubt on the propriety of that designation.
So, no, there's no ethnic bigotry/racism involved; more like Gonzales was seen on national/worldwide TeeVee lying his teeth loose, and now everyone knows what he looks, and when they see him coming are forced by prudence to put their hand on their wallet and keep it there until he goes away.
And every law firm knows that to put him in front of a judge representing a client would earn a charge of contempt for having disrupted the sober proceedings by having forced everyone in the courtroom to roll on the floor laughing. (And injuring the judge, who fell off the bench and injured himself while in the midst of a guffaw.)
Many, but not quite so many, know what Yoo looks like, but they haven't read his memos (especially those still being suppressed for the protection of "state secret" crimes by the Bushit criminal enterprise); and haven't yet got around to watching the media inform them of the details of the treaties, etc., which prohibit torture under all circumstances, which media, as we know, can't shut about torture, it being illegal always and everywhere, and it being illegal to even attempt to make it legal, and how Bushit publicly admitted that he approved the torture "program" from the very top.
Don't ya just get sick of the media harping and harping and harping, for weeks, months, years on end -- what's it almost 8 years now? -- about all the crimes the Bushit criminal enterprise has committed? Wouldn't you too like a break now and then, like to see a cartoon or something else here or there -- even if only a brief insightful interview with cutie-pie Britney Spears' (euphemism alert) cat?
April 18, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not forget Bush's ranch in Paraguay. Apparently Paraguay has passed a law giving amnesty to the Bush people against war crimes indictments.
There may be room for Gonzales down there. Perhaps they will need a translator. Does Alberto speak Spanish?
Posted by Richardxx
BS. If Paraguay is a signatory to such as the UN Convention Against Torture, which is probable, then it knows it cannot provide any such immunity.
It's amazing how much True Believer conspirabunk goes "POOF" when one applies a bit of law and reason to it.
Not-so-by-the-way: Have you seen the deed to the alleged ranch?
April 18, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink