Report: Attorney General Gonzales resigns

[Rodger Tellefson]

Link to article...

 

[Travis Munday]

...good. At least maybe he can save SOME face by quitting instead of being fired.

 

[Johnny O]

I'll take the job for half the salary.

 

[Brett Wustman]

...yeah, what an awful man he is...our congress is such a joke

 

[Eric Pennal]

Another rat jumping off the sinking ship.

 

[Gavin Allan]

Maybe we can get Ashcroft back.

 

[Rick Kent]

He put in his time and now will be made a full partner in a prestigious law firm making millions of dollars.



The same as all Presidential appointments when they have had enough.

 

[Johnny O]

The same as all Presidential appointments when they have had enough.

Problem is, if it isn't already, is that if this stuff keeps up then nobody decent will want the jobs because it isn't worth the hassle.

 

[user 62394]

I never understood the dislike for this guy. Just because he fired some people??? Who cares? He had every right to fire whoever he wanted. I'll grant, a little underqualified for the job, but I think there are few who are qualified.



DUNERUNNER -- how is he such an awful man, as you say?



Rocks

 

[Bill V]

I don't know--some of the stories I've heard (and I'll grant they're from completely unverified, unverifiable sources, so they may be very far off) about Gonzalez basically forcing an injured-and-highly-medicated-to-the-point-of-incoherence Ashcroft (who was AG at the time) to sign off on wiretapping practices that even the quite-conservative Ashcroft thought were too invasive, make me think that even if only 1/100th of the stories are true, we're better off without Gonzalez in that position.

 

[Gavin Allan]

Yeah, heaven forbid we would want wire-tapping and other undercover evidence gathering activities to occur. Who knows--we might make a terrorist or two angry.

 

[Frank screwyourednecks]

The country just got a whole lot safer. He gone.

 

[Eric Pennal]

Just based on his testimony before Congress, alone, he was either completely disengaged from his duties and incompetent, or was lying under oath. Either way, he's unfit to be the AG. That's what happens when Presidential appointments are based on loyalty, not qualification.

 

[ShelbyChip Melton]

Its all political liberals didn't like him. They didn't say much when Clinton fired all the people when he was elected president.

 

[LaRue Medlin]

now if we could get George W to resign. Life would be great. or at least better.

 

[Frank screwyourednecks]

– It was Alberto Gonzales, not Congress, who fired attorneys for political reasons.



– It was Alberto Gonzales, not Congress, who gave the White House political team unprecedented power to intercede in the affairs of the Justice Department.



– It was Alberto Gonzales, not Congress, who allowed his department to illegally hire attorneys based in part on their loyalty to the Republican Party and the Bush administration.



– It was Alberto Gonzales, not Congress, who dissembled and misled about the administration’s spying activities.



– It was Alberto Gonzales, not Congress, who lied in stating that all Bush appointees would be Senate-confirmed.



-It was not just Democrats, Republicans also who wanted him fired.



He was put in by Bush (close friend) to jam the un constitutional Patriot Act through. A SERIOUS threat to Americans personal freedom. Wake up you sheepish conservatives. You have to see things from BOTH sides to be truly informed.

 

[Travis Munday]

Indeed Frank.



The current administration acts as if the Constitution is just "a good idea", and not the law of the land. A shame.

 

[user 62394]

Regarding the "firing attorneys for political reasons" thing --



Those attorneys are political appointments that work "at the pleasure of the President." All of them -- Dem or Rep -- are hired and fired for political reasons. If it wasn't, an incoming President wouldn't fire a bunch of them upon entering office, which they all do. Why does it matter if it was during the term rather than at the start of the term?



Rocks

 

[Paul Maurer 2]

Watched him being questioned re the hospital visit- felt he was either the dumbest person ever to be AG or an absolute liar, or both. He 's a disgrace.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

MTURocks,



Please don't confuse things with logic and common sense questioning.



Many are beating their chest as Gonzales is out the door, as if cronyism and "politics as usual" started under the GWB administration. Many of these same people have the nerve to call others sheep and to chide others for partisan myopathy. Laughable.



TJR