Comments (19)

Anonymous wrote on March 19, 2007 6:38 PM:

So, they're going to throw Gonzales under the bus to try to save Karl Rove. Man, that guy must know where an awful lot of bodies are buried if they can toss so many people to save him.

tekel wrote on March 19, 2007 6:39 PM:

What about the idictments? Will they come out on the same day, or will McNulty be indicted a few days after Gonzo?

foggylady wrote on March 19, 2007 6:40 PM:

Chertoff is even worse than Gonzales..there is no difference between evil and evil-er.
Bush's declaration of support was a clear sign AG is on the way out.
The AG position has to have Senate confirmation, right?
Gonzo's leaving won't change anything and hopefully the Dems will continue to follow the trail.
And betch Gonzales will not be fone...just changing chairs.

profmarcus wrote on March 19, 2007 6:42 PM:

from jeralyn merritt at talkleft...
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CBS legal analyst and author of the Washington Post's Bench Conference blog makes the case today for replacing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales with Patrick Fitzgerald.
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to hell with the rest of those losers... seriously, fitz as ag is of the best ideas i've heard in a long, long time...

http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/

anon wrote on March 19, 2007 6:47 PM:

...fitz as ag...

One problem with Fitzgerald as AG: There aren't enough orange jumpsuits in existence.

drits'n'dravy wrote on March 19, 2007 6:53 PM:

Not Ted Olson. Please not Ted Olson.

greggp wrote on March 19, 2007 6:54 PM:

THe new AG should be Arlen Specter. Then Ed Rendell could appoint his successor, and no one would care what Joe Lieberman does.

oldtree wrote on March 19, 2007 6:54 PM:

I would like to recommend Irve Libby. This new guy. only has 4 felony raps. hasn't been disbarred yet. great choice. currently unemployed too. knows the admin and how things are done, team player

Node of Evil wrote on March 19, 2007 7:00 PM:

1.) This is a distraction; whether or not Gonzales stays, they're still going to protect the authority to appoint USAs w/out Senate approval. That, again, is their main goal in all of this (at least in my mind). Where are the Senate and the House on getting bills passed to revoke this authority?

2.) Inasmuch as it might be true, I tend to think that they'll try as hard as possible to keep ahold of him. Letting go of Gonzales would be a big defeat, in much the same way that letting go of Donald Rumsfeld was a big defeat, and it will open up debate on all sorts of questions about how the new guy would view the sweeping power grab by this Administration. I don't think that the President wants this debate, especially considering that all they really have left now that Congress is controlled by Democrats is the power they appropriated to themselves. So Gonzales stays so they can keep the "party" going. And they will drag this out for weeks if that's what they need to do.

comadrejo wrote on March 19, 2007 7:06 PM:

If they nominate Chertoff, guess what? the Judiciary committee will subpoena every decision he made pre and post Katrina, he would get grilled about Hurricane Katrina. Nominating Chertoff will make the Bush Administrations' Via Dolorosa even longer. Frances Townsend would get Dem support pretty much, but Chertoff would be agonizing for the Bush Administration. Larry Thompson would also get confirmed. Even if Chertoff gets along with Bush and he can deal with Cheney and his staff besides Rove and the White House Counsel's office, he would just drawn and quartered during the confirmation process.

Unmitigated Audacity wrote on March 19, 2007 7:17 PM:

The thought of Fitz as the new AG occured to me a few days ago, but I didn't want to be seen as delusional by even mentioning it in jest. It would be like putting Jesus in as new manager in charge of the moneychangers.

rober gordon durst wrote on March 19, 2007 7:19 PM:

why tf is it party guys doin the vettin???

gr8flmo wrote on March 19, 2007 8:14 PM:

I have a better chance of being named a.g. than Fitz.

The closest I've gotten to law school is the LSAT's.

I keep wondering - if someone found Rove holding a bloody knife over a dead body - would that get the job done? Or would the press, Repubs, etc. find a way to obfuscate even that.

Nan wrote on March 19, 2007 8:33 PM:

Most of the replacement candidates on that list are Vast Right Wing Conspiracy figures. I doubt they would get confirmed.

tekel wrote on March 19, 2007 8:38 PM:

the WSJ blog was talking about Mike Luttig as a possibility. Sure, he's pissed that he didn't get the SCOTUS nod. But he's clearly ready to overturn Roe, so he should be perfect as AG, right?

Never mind that whole conflict-of-interest problem during the Long Dong Thomas confirmation hearings... I'm sure everyone's forgotten all about that by now.

GaPeach103 wrote on March 19, 2007 9:30 PM:

Great recommendation, Oldtree! But wouldn't an even better choice be a virulently anti-law, anti-ethics, pseudo-intellectual, someone who has a mancrush on Bush and thinks he can do no wrong? I'd go with John Yoo. Quite obviously the best man for the job. Besides, you'd trade one minority for another. Win-win.

If he's not available, then Ken Blackwell, former Ohio Sec of St, is the only other choice.

Richard L. Adlof wrote on March 19, 2007 10:06 PM:

The issue of finding a confirmable appointee that is acceptable to the plutocractic facsists in the White House is one I expect to be drug-out rather than rapidly resolved. Like the present crony in Bush's pocket, no Attorney's General means no prosectuation, little investigation and defferred embarassment. The White House may take two years to fill Gonzales' tiny shoes.

litigatormom wrote on March 19, 2007 10:34 PM:

I keep obsessively checking the House Judiciary Website, but no dumped docs. (sigh)

Jim wrote on March 20, 2007 5:38 AM:

How pathetic that as the sun begins to set on his failed Presidency, he blames the people of our Nation, saying we have some psychological trauma rather than learning the lessons of his enormous mistakes. He will never understand that a grateful nation would rise with relief, if he only had the wisdom to learn and change, and a grateful world will rise with relief, when his days in
office are done.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history for using 9-11 to create fear throughout the land, rather than bravery, courage and valor.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history for using 9-11 to launch partisan and dishonest attacks on genuine American war heroes because they happen to be members of the other political party.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history for using 9-11 as a reason to become the only President in our history to become a world-wide advocate for torture and detention practices that every leader, of every democratic nation, everywhere in the world, has publicly or privately pleaded with
him to abandon.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history for showing contempt for the advice of our military commanders by allowing the man he compares to Hitler, to escape from Tora Bora, to pursue an obsessive war in Iraq, that many of those same commanders warned him about, while he publicly claimed he always follows their advice.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history for treating the Chief of Staff of the Army with ridicule and contempt, when General Shinseki so honorably tried to warn him.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history, for putting his hand on the Bible and pledging to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution while using 9-11 to claim the unilateral power to break it.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history by accepting the sacred duty to faithfully execute the laws of the land, while using 9-11 to create fears to claim the unilateral powers to violate them.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history for dishonoring a spirit that had Democrats and Republicans singing God Bless America at the doors of our Capitol, to personally promote a politics so venomous, vile and vindictive that he fills the air with talk of treason and enemies lists compiled by hate filled supporters.

Even when one of his media partisans slanders the Army that landed at Normandy and the Marines who took Iwo Jima with preposterous falsehoods that they committed war crimes, the self-styled war president lacks the moral integrity to speak out, for fear of offending what he proudly regards as his base.

Even when the trailer park trash of American politics slanders and demeans some widows of 9-11, this partisan who promised to bring honor and integrity to Washington lacks the moral stature to speak out, even against that.

George W. Bush will be morally impeached by the court of history for trying to frighten our people into war with Iraq, with tall tales of Saddam Hussein working with Osama Bin Laden to create mushroom clouds of nuclear extermination that would kill the people of New York.

George W. Bush will be impeached by the court of history for using 9-11 to fan the flames of fear so violently, that at one point, the Capital City of the land of the free and the home of the brave was turned into a panicked hutch of rabbits running to the stores for duct tape, gas masks, bottled water, and bullet proof vests while the Vice-President of the United States fled to hiding spots at undisclosed locations.

How ironic, how pathetic, and how fitting that as America prepares to honor the heroes of 9-11 the Senate Intelligence Committee issues a report detailing fraudulent exploitation of false intelligence, one of America's national networks exploits 9-11 with a docu-fraud of falsehoods, while our "wartime" President exploits 9-11 one more time, with one more taxpayer financed tour of fear, desperately trying to win one more national election.

Five years ago some of the finest Americans who God ever put on this earth gave their lives for their brothers and sisters, for their neighbors and families, for the country that they and we love so much, so deeply and so passionately.

No one ever took a poll to determine whether these American heroes were Democrats or Republicans, because it does not matter.