I suppose that his troubles are simply a ramification of playing with fire and getting burned. Yet as a loyal acolyte in the GWBush-machine prior to his AG days he surely could have predicted how the machine chews up and spits out underlings as necessary. As a putative Christian shouldn't he also believe that telling the truth about his smellier activities as AG and doing some penance will solve these problems best? Time to 'fess up Al!

The former Attorney General of the United States of America cannot get a job in any law firm in the country.

That tells you everything you need to know about the man.

"I do not recall" being his motto of infamy and his attempt to obstruct justice through witness tampering, calling Monica Goodling into his office to say "as I recall the situation as being ..." in attempt to get their stories straight and tacitly encourage her to lie to congress with regards to caging and a whole host of other issues are such flagrant violations of law, that to say they are unfair is absurd.

Not to mention how he overtly turned the justice department into a subservient arm of the executive branch, telling the US attorneys that they remember they 'work for the GOP', allowing the most egregious of political prosecutions and orchestration of a wholesale liquidation of the civil rights division with Liberty and Oral Roberts University bigots, and also hiring strictly on party affiliation and he somehow thinks that the lack of interest in his services is somehow 'unfair'? Employers hire based on past job performance, of which he was simply one of the worst AG's in history. The fact that he was a former SC justice in Texas is a rather scary joke.

I'm surprised that Gonzo has any "recollection" of his time as AG.

This is what happens when radical religious fanatics pray too much. Those morning sessions did nothing but cause destruction of innocent folks around the globe.

Perhaps asking for guidance from a loving god, rather than wishing for your own warped desires and revenges from an evil genie would have been better....

Too bad the fanatics cannot see the difference... IMHO

[Fredo's] lawyer told TPMmuckraker in May he was engaged in unspecified "legal work."

Well, Gonzo said he's got a lot of legal bills and has (or will be?) setting up a legal-defense fund.  He might as well do a little bit of work on his own case.

OTOH, as the old saw goes, "A lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client."  In Gonzo's case, that's especially true.

It helps to remember that Gonzo has never had power (or responsibility) except through the graces of the Bush family. GW liked him, helped him along like a frat bro, and used him.

So yes he is a ridiculous spectacle, but only as a direct reflection of Dubya. The shame is that USA was unable to correct this problem at its root, but instead kowtowed to the lawless wishes of this crime family. That's what suks.

I’m somewhat surprised that Gonzo hasn’t found a comfortable sinecure somewhere on the Wingnut Welfare circuit. Why haven’t the Heritage Foundation or American Enterprise Institute provided him a home? Even if Gonzo is too much damaged goods to those esteemed organizations you would think that maybe Pacific Legal Foundation or some similar outfit would have him.

(dis)Barring that, maybe Regents or Liberty University could find a place for him on their Law School faculty. You would think that after providing gainful employment for so many loyal Bushies at the DoJ somebody would throw Gonzo a bone.

I'm sorry. I don't understand. Wasn't it more that you were a lying, Constitution manipulating buttplug, rather than your tenure as AG that hurt your reputation?

One aspect ripe for speculation is the apparent estrangement between him and Dubya.

W doesn't seem to care much for Dickwad Cheney much these days, either.  Prolly blames him for many of administration's disasters.  Dubya may see Gonzo as having done much of Cheney's bidding.  (See:  torture memos.)

But that covers only the foreign-policy part.  On the domestic front, Gonzo did much of Rove's bidding.  (See:  US Atty scandal.)

Hmmm.  I wonder how relations have been between Dubya and Rove lately?

If you weren't such a douche Alberto, you wouldn't have this problem.

Gonzo did this interview to shame Bush into helping with his legal expenses. Too bad Bush doesn't read newspapers.

When you sum it up and translate his attitude it conjures up the attitude of how 3rd World upper class consciousness view the world.

His reputation was ruined by following orders of his authoritarian Administration, and that the marketplace of democracy is now deemed that sullied and wrong character. He is offended and angry about that.

In many ways that is the conflict between the Authoritarianism of the Bush Administration's view of the world and the rest of the world. We get to make judgments on the character, the law (not the man) and the outcomes, not the authoritarians he served.

Until a full investigation of what went wrong with Bush and Cheney is completed, a boil will fester on the body politic of this great nation.

there's lots of evidence that our former AG suffers from some sort of memory problem. just recall all the times he said "i can't remember."
one wonders how he ever passed any law exams with such a lack of ability to remember.
no wonder nobody wants to hire him; he probably needs medical intervention to cure his terrible brain disorder.
lack of memory can be due to a number of causes-
though in his case, it may be due to prevarication, which was apparently an epidemic during dubya's administration.
alberto- either have your head examined, or else admit that you were lying when questioned. make your choice!

If his reputation was damaged, he has no one to blame but himself. All he had to do was refuse to do Bush's/Cheney's bidding and walk away. He made the choice. He enabled the damage. Live with it.

he had one?

"Gonzales might be able to cover some of those bills with proceeds from his forthcoming memoir -- a book, he told Solomon, that does not currently have a publisher."

And the one thing that made him useful was that he remembered nothing.

It might not be a good idea to publish that "memoir."

I'm amazed the wingnut welfare circuit hasn't stepped up to take care of him. What, Fox News has no room for yet one more Bush/Cheney apologist? Or is Karl Rove sucking all the air out of that particular atmosphere?

I can muster no sympathy. I've been out of work since January, and I'm not even the one who politicized Justice, backed torture and defecated all over the Constitution.

Your time as AG hurt my country.

I know it's just an ending tid bit but like another commenter wrote, Gonzo's flat statement that all special investigations are over and in the very next sentence his refusal to comment specifically because of an ongoing investigation is an absolute classic.

This should be engraved in bronze and hung on the wall at TPM hq. G. Dukeworthy for sure even as a repeat winner.

Oh, come here little Alberto. Let me put a Bandaid on that owie. Your reputation will heal nicely after about 20 years in jail, but it may leave a nasty scar.

ps...have fun in Lubbock...

Sir, your time as attorney general hurt our country.