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Chief wrote on April 6, 2007 11:59 AM:

Me too!!!

Anonymous wrote on April 6, 2007 12:11 PM:

Will:

From the Minnesota USAO story - there was this item buried at the bottom.....

"And indeed, some of the early White House memos indicate three people on the hit list resigned before they could be fired."

I don't ever remember seeing this noted elsewhere - or seeing it in the document dump myself - or from those TPM readers who dutifully went through each of the stacks.....

Also, if this was in the documents - presumably Schumer would have known about it when he was asking Sampson who the other USAs were on the hitlist. He would have known they already resigned & thus that was why they were off the final list.

Does anyone else remember seeing any reference to this?

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=2860127&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Scott wrote on April 6, 2007 12:24 PM:

don't forget Colorado's finest: Tom Tancredo
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/03/tancredo-becomes-first-gop.html

Andy K wrote on April 6, 2007 12:56 PM:

When BushCo loses Vern Ehlers support on any issue, it's time to re-think their stand.

Dan R. wrote on April 6, 2007 1:12 PM:

I thought Tancredo had also called for the AG to go.

hungrycoyote wrote on April 6, 2007 1:27 PM:

I'm surprised there isn't more being said about the case in Wisconsin that was overturned yesterday:

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070405/APC0101/70405164/1003/APC01

"A former state worker was being released from prison Thursday after an appeals court overturned her conviction on charges she steered a contract to a company that donated to Gov. Jim Doyle.

"A three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Georgia Thompson’s convictions and ordered her immediate release from the Illinois prison she entered in November after oral arguments on Thursday."

This was a federal case filed by U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic in Milwaukee.

Security Code: again
Like, here we go again ...

pikkel wrote on April 6, 2007 2:23 PM:

And Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-MI) is in probably one of the safest seats in the entire country.

zk0sm0 wrote on April 6, 2007 2:28 PM:

i think gonzales should cite his fifth amendment right not to appear before congress because they've obviously already made up their minds. :p

Charles Bowman wrote on April 6, 2007 2:30 PM:

A comment on the WP article about the documents, clued me in. Under no circumstances will he resign. If a confirmable AG was installed, the whole White House crowd would end up in prison.The only obstacle between Bush-Rove and billowing winds of oblivion is one diminutive political peon named Gonzales! Impeachment, roll on!

Anonymous wrote on April 6, 2007 2:32 PM:

Even more telling: How many (or perhaps how few) have spoken out in support of Fredo

brianr wrote on April 6, 2007 3:00 PM:

Charles Krauthammer, Tom Tancredo, Philly Inquirer, Andrew Sullivan, etc. I have a list of 25+ and counting who have called for Gonzales' resignation.

http://www.whereistand.com/Stands/21927/73/PublicFigures

Jeremy wrote on April 6, 2007 4:51 PM:

Almost:

Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, called the Justice Department's management dysfunctional for sending Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Will Moschella to testify before the panel last week "without knowing all the facts."

"They're going to have to come up with some answers," Sensenbrenner said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. "If they don't, they're going to lose everyone's confidence."

"What I'd like to hear is the truth," he said, complaining about the Justice Department's different explanations for the dismissals. If that record is not corrected, Sensenbrenner said, "then the Justice Department and the attorney general himself are going to die by a thousand cuts."

Consigliere wrote on April 6, 2007 8:09 PM:

"This nation deserves better than to have an attorney general who cannot be forthright with Congress and misleads the citizens he has been sworn to protect. ... He has a credibility issue." --- Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.

I don't know what the problem is, but he's got a problem. You cannot have the nation's chief law enforcement officer with a cloud hanging over his credibility," --- Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

Notables

Charles Krauthammer,""Gonzales Must Go", 3/23/07

Alberto Gonzales apparently never communicated a code of conduct to guide them as they wrestled with various political pressures. That's a grievous failure of leadership. --- NYTimes, David Brooks

"Really, what's ridiculous to say the Chief of Staff did something wrong, he's gotta go and the Attorney General didn't know about—something as sensitive as removing US Attorneys." --- Bill Kristol

za wrote on April 6, 2007 10:48 PM:

I don't know about the House members, but those two GOP Senators are the most endangered of all 21 Republicans. So, they're trying to distance themselves form what killed the Repubs in 2006........c-o-r-r-u-p-t-i-o-n

Secutiy code: screw!!!

Kimberly wrote on April 7, 2007 2:05 AM:

I was browsing the net, and happened to look up what my US Rep. Dan Lungren has been up to lately. After a google search, I found his page, and as he is on the House Judiciary Committee, I clicked a link and found myself on a page for Republican committee members. At the very top of the page, there was a link to a letter the republican ranking member has sent to former President, Bill Clinton.

Seems that, "The House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and
Homeland Security will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 29, 2007, at 10:00 a.m.

The letter goes on to invite Clinton to speak on the issue because "You are no stranger to controversial pardons, most notably the pardon of Marc Rich on your last day in office."

There is no limit to their "in your face" arrogance. The rapaciousness of their hearts shows in their every action.

Here's the site link to the letter:

http://republicans.judiciary.house.gov/

chuckles wrote on April 8, 2007 9:33 AM:

Just waiting for the Mexican to leave...he should have went on vacation but trying to save your job is as good an excuse as any at this late juncture.

I wonder when DW will come out and pronounce his undying faith for Gonzo again?

It has been a few days now...chuckle chuckle

Richard L. Adlof wrote on April 8, 2007 11:37 AM:

As of this morning you have to add the noted amphibian and all around ass-backward anti-historian (the one with more [ex-]wives that a Mitt Rommeny wet dream) . . . Salamaner Gingrich.

Richard L. Adlof wrote on April 8, 2007 12:02 PM:

Charles Bowman,

I think you are dead on . . . But that is only half the story:

A comfirmable AG would have to investigate, indict, prosecute and imprision the whole gaggle of Fascist Plutocracts in the Shrub 43 Klepocracy. BUT . . .

The Chimp-in-Charge would have less than zero desire to fill that position once the hobbit Fredo is finally drug kicking from the scene. Bush and buddies will get to play to their strength . . . Embattled by the godless, evil, bad, stinky liberals . . . Although liberal may be defined as 99 percent of America soon.

The writting is all over the wall on this one AND they can afford to run out the clock. That would mean that our best hope lays in bottling them up so they can't do anything until the next President having them all arrested as tay-er-rists and sent to some country whose name ends with -istan for a little firm questioning.

It will be ugly but the Fox-Opinioncast may have something to report on other than the missing white woman of the week soon.

chuckles wrote on April 8, 2007 12:21 PM:

Add the Newt to the happy GOP you must step down list. The Mexican against The Machine...chuckle chuckle

angryandy wrote on April 8, 2007 7:32 PM:

"I think the country, in fact, would be much better served to have a new team at the Justice Department, across the board," Gingrich said. "I cannot imagine how he is going to be effective for the rest of this administration. … They're going to be involved in endless hearings."
--Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)

mike dubrovich wrote on April 8, 2007 8:39 PM:

You forgot to list Rep. Tom Tancredo R-Colorado

Blank Kludge wrote on April 8, 2007 9:24 PM:

http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1176008579222550.xml&coll=7

Gonzales should go, Ehlers says
Sunday, April 08, 2007
By Nate Reens
Gazette News Service

GRAND RAPIDS -- Ashamed of the way Attorney General Alberto Gonzales handled firing eight federal prosecutors and other issues, U.S. Rep. Vern Ehlers said the head of the Justice Department should resign.

Ehlers, R-Grand Rapids, said Gonzalez should offer President George W. Bush the courtesy of ending the political controversy over what role the Attorney General played in the dismissals.

[snip]

Senate Democrats last week postponed Gonzales' first chance to testify in his own defense over the firings of eight federal prosecutors, including Margaret Chiara from the Western District of Michigan.

Gonzales won't appear on Capitol Hill until April 17.

``Maybe he should leave before the Democrats have that whole circus,'' Ehlers said.

U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Holland, was out of the country and could not be reached. U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, also could not be reached.

Blank Kludge wrote on April 8, 2007 9:31 PM:

Also, look at this from Tolman's new baileywick:
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5618053

The word resignation isn't directly used, but...

Cheebus wrote on April 9, 2007 3:42 AM:

Spanish-language papers want Gonzales to resign.
From ThinkProgress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/07/spanish-language-papers-want-gonzales-to-resign/

The daily La Opinión in Los Angeles and the Chicago weekly La Raza argue in a common editorial that Alberto Gonzales should resign. ‘The firing of the U.S. attorneys is sufficient cause for doubting his capacity for distinguishing his loyalty to President George W. Bush from his duty to citizens,’ the editorial says. Another Spanish-language column in the Chicago paper Hoy:

Gonzales’ ascent was “a double triumph,” Muñoz wrote: “Not only was he was the first Latino attorney general, but he was the first Latino to occupy one of the four most important seats in the presidential cabinet.”

But with many in Congress calling for his resignation as a result of the U.S. attorney firings, the columnist added, “Latino leadership needs to join” in that demand. “Gonzales not only has let down the community — he’s let down the nation,” Muñoz…wrote.

Sam Thornton wrote on April 10, 2007 2:45 PM:

I fervently hope Gonzalez DOES NOT resign prior to his testimony to Congress. We need this weasel on the record, under oath, before he slips out the door. After that, he can take a flying leap at the moon, he's still indictable.

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