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GMA casts Gonzales scandals as partisan: "For Democrats, it's another scalp to hang on the wall"
Summary: On Good Morning America, correspondent David Wright asserted that "[w]ere it not for the scandals, [President] Bush had hoped to make" outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court." Wright also reported that Gonzales' resignation "is being welcomed on both sides of the aisle" because "[f]or Democrats, it's another scalp to hang on the wall; and for Republicans, it's a huge distraction that now goes away." In fact, several Republicans have joined Democrats in calling for Gonzales to resign.
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Posted by pete592
Hmm, let a rogue administration run rampant in its lust for absolute power, or go scalpin'?
I'll take scalpin'.
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 6:20:01 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by bittermarv in reply to pete592
These guys just seem to love the torture metaphors. Oh, the irony.
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 6:46:28 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by tex in reply to pete592
So, now Bush, doing his best to emulate Henry the VIII, is single again and looking for a new bride. You ladies, pay no attention to all those new piles of dirt out by the moat. It's a real honor to be asked into THIS guy's bed!
Posted Wednesday August 29, 2007 1:30:59 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by eweston8542983
Scalpum Tantric!
Right Kemosabi. Thiisssp,thissssp, thiiissssssp.
Hi Ho Electric Blue Away! Ahahahahhaaaaa!
Ah, Ranger's on a bum trip again.
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 6:27:41 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by solon in reply to eweston8542983
I LOVE the firesign theater references. Brings back the old days.
Posted Thursday August 30, 2007 2:39:32 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by solon
Right scandal after scandal from the GOP and the REAL problem is that the Dems are benifitting or something. Somehow all this GOP malfeasance MUST be the Dems fault
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 6:30:51 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by bittermarv in reply to solon
Hell, I figure it's gotta be Clinton's fault!
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 6:47:10 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by deeznuts in reply to bittermarv
Yes. Definitely Clinton's fault.
Heck, the US attorney firing scandal is the reason Hillary personally shot Vince Foster.
I thought everybody knew that!
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 10:19:11 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Lynn in reply to solon
The media treatspolitics like it's some kind of sport. They are ridiculous. Anyway it's' more apt to describe these departures as rats are jumping off the sinking SS Bush or I was watching Ladder 49 last night and rats were hauling it out of the burning building as the firefighters were running in and for some reason all these Bush adminsitration departures came to mind.
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 6:47:44 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pearlene_scott1602 in reply to Lynn
Lynn it had to be the rats ;-)
Posted Wednesday August 29, 2007 1:24:42 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by spencer
There has to be an investigation of ABC by Media Matters; they constantly take the admin's side on most matters or trivializes them, especially Gonzales; check out the Nightline story last night; it wasn't even the top story
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 7:33:44 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by princeofwheels
Not to worry about Gonzo. By Saturday, he will have no recollection of ever being in Washington.
The scary part is that Gonzo would be on the Supreme Court.....Hell, as crazy as this Administration is, they STILL may nominate him. Just kidding, not.
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 7:41:27 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pearlene_scott1602
Maybe just maybe we will get an Attorney General who can actually read and comprehend the DOJ's mission statement:
To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Posted Tuesday August 28, 2007 11:18:28 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by magnolialover
You know, good old Gonzo could have avoided this while entire mess by doing one, little, teeny, itty bitty thing. Tell the truth when under oath in the Senate and the House. I mean, it really was, and is, that easy. Don't perjure yourself, and don't use the DOJ as a political football. Problems solved.
The one thing that really comes at me with this whole Gonzales thing is how much more respect I have now for Ashcroft than I did before. He, you know, actually believed and enforced the laws of the US and adhered to the Constitution.
Posted Wednesday August 29, 2007 9:45:03 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by cann0nba11 in reply to magnolialover
Maybe he was following the Clinton plan re: truth under oath.
DOH!
Posted Wednesday August 29, 2007 12:26:51 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by spintronic in reply to cann0nba11
Hahahahahah
See other poster's comments above about Torture-boy's demise being Clinton's fault...
Posted Wednesday August 29, 2007 12:31:53 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by john henry in reply to magnolialover
To say that Gonzales makes Ashcroft look good is more a comment on Gonzales than on Ashcroft.
Posted Wednesday August 29, 2007 12:28:49 PM EDT / Flag this comment