Attorney General Resigns

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So the big news this morning is that the Attorney General appears to be done.  Remember that it was only a few weeks ago that the new Chief of Staff Josh Bolten told members of Bush’s staff that if they did not intend to stay through the end of his term they needed to leave by Labor Day.  Guess this is a sign he never intended to stay:

After Rove’s resignation senior administration officials said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten had told senior aides that if they intended to stay after Labor Day, plan to remain for the rest of Bush’s term through January 2009.

And here is the Times being triumphant:

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned.

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The official said that the decision was Mr. Gonzales’s and that the president accepted it grudgingly. At the same time, the official acknowledged that the turmoil over his tenure as Attorney General had made continuing difficult.

"The unfair treatment that he’s been on the receiving end of has been a distraction for the department," the official said.

Accusations of perjury which the NYT’s made regularly, and falsely I might add.  Now granted, he did not do so well defending the Administration when the firing news came out by explaining the firings with an excuse that didn’t hold up.  That being their performance.  All he had to say was that it was the President’s privilege and that they needed no excuse.  But the Democrats had a plan and they would have made a circus out of it either way.  Would any other past AG have done better?  Think Reno would of?

Of course Reno never had to go through this when EVERY federal prosecutor was fired by Clinton because the Republicans understood that this was the Presidents privilege. 

Be that it may it appears many think its Chertoff job to lose

If the Administration could avoid a protracted confirmation bloodletting — a very big if — I think that replacing Alberto Gonzales with Michael Chertoff would be a very positive step.

Recess appointment?

Why Chertoff? Officials say he’s got fans on Capitol Hill, is untouched by the Justice prosecutor scandal, and has more experience than Gonzales did, having served as a federal judge and assistant attorney general.

Interesting.  Didn’t Chertoff piss off a few conservatives with his stance on immigration?

That may be the plan to try to get him through the confirmation, put up an experienced fellow with a history of agreeing with Dem’s on some issues.  Somehow, I still see the confirmation becoming a circus run by the Democrats:

ROBERTS: Safe to say any confirmation hearing will be an opportunity for democrats to air years worth of grievances about a number of different issues revolving around the department of justice?

SEN. SCHUMER: Let me say this – and I’m speaking for myself – I’d rather look forward than look back. I’d rather look at somebody who can straighten out some of the problems in the future rather than finger point in the past. When I called for the Attorney General to step down – I think I was the first one – it was because I was so upset at how the Justice Department was being run with the u.S. Attorney’s investigation, with what has happened with wiretaps and so many other different kinds of issues. And so I think our number one goal is not to look back and finger-point. It’s to, rather, look forward and find an Attorney General who can get the Justice Department working in the way it’s always worked, under democratic and republican administrations alike, which is rule of law first.

Yeah, we are still waiting with bated breath for you Democrats to stop looking back on all the other issues.  But on this one you really will?  Give me a break Chuckie.

So will it be Chertoff?  Many think so but I’m seeing rumblings it may be the Solicitor General Paul Clement.  We shall see.

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OTOH he may follow the nomination model he used in choosing Roberts/Alito/Gates – find a respected retread from the Reagan/Bush years and leaving the Lords of the Judiciary Committee frustrated and tongue-tied.

Someone like Richard Thornburgh might be such a nominee.

600 Congressional oversight hearings
ZERO Congressional accomplishments since Dems took power
18% approval rating of Democrats’ Congress
3% approval of how Democrats’ Congress has hanldled Iraq War (ie, their New Direction in Iraq that never was, is, or will be)

Oh, but they want to look forward-not back

Yeah, right. Maybe they want to look at the upside of their polling since they can hardly look down any lower?

Controversy has been often used in the Bush Administration as a tool to keep the lions at bay. It feeds the liberal MSM and the partisan hacks until they are drunk with outrage.

One selection that the Predident could choose that would surely open another well deserved “can of worms” would be John Ellis “Jeb” Bush for AG. While this would drive the Dems into a frenzy, they would have little legs to stand on principal, when the democratic party embraced the brothers Kennedy, (nepotism at it’s finest).

Forget the recess appointment and run the full gamut well into next spring. This may give Gen. Petraeus and the Iraqi government enough time to accomplish their goals instead of a returning democrat party from “recess” aimed at mounting another volley of failure and surrender to our enemies.

Considering Schumer said he was “duped” on the Roberts and Alito nominations, there’s probably someone in which Schumer can be “duped” again.

So the Party of Corruption (D) has succeeded in getting rid of another Republican. Sure wish controversy, accusations and just the plain old truth would catch up with the Dems.

I thought Gonzales should be fired for not doing his job which would have resulted in at least 25 democrat senators being arrested, tried and given long prison terms for treason. The treason is on the record in words and film so it would be an open and shut case. Then again, is there a member of the minority class in the republican that the racist democrats haven’t went after with false charges? Putting Jerkoff in the AG office would get rid of him at the homeland insecurity department and put him where he can do even more damage to our security. President Bush should not appoint one more person to any postition. Let them remain open and blame the dimocrats, but claim the savings of tax dollars as cost cutting measures. I hope one of the terrorists that is freed by the democrats demand to get rid of Gonzales (cases that won’t go forward) cuts Chuckie’s throat and rapes his entire family. That would be justice applied.

I’m disappointed. Haven’t we realized by now that by Gozales resigning he’s validated the attack and smear tactics of the Democrats?

Can anyone name two Democrats in the Clinton Administration who resigned from their posts simply because there were controversial and unproven allegations made about them?

“If the Administration could avoid a protracted confirmation bloodletting — a very big if — I think that replacing Alberto Gonzales with Michael Chertoff would be a very positive step.”

One incompetent after another…

Chertoff should stay at DHS, he can do less damage there.

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