Posted on 03/17/2007 2:25:55 AM PDT by nancyvideo
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has apologized to U.S. attorneys under him and appointed an interim chief of staff as pressure builds for him to resign.
Gonzales apologized to all 93 U.S. attorneys in a conference call Friday as morale in U.S. attorneys' offices across the country deteriorated, McClatchy Newspapers reported. Gonzales has been at the center of a controversy over the way in which eight U.S. attorneys were fired in recent months
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I have absolutely no idea.
Yep, thanks!
"I think he should resign for apologizing."
AMEN!
BTW, are these your keywords and if they are why would you use them if you have absolutely no idea?
"COWARDICE; WEENIE; WHATAWEENIE; WIMP; YELLOW"
No it doesn't,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
And if McCain or Hagel decide to go third party, that would not have an effect on things either.
Ross Perot didn't affect the out come of the 92 election, either, did he?
Ralph Nader hasn't hurt the Dems at any point, either.
In countries where there are parlimentary govts, like Britain, conservative parties don't affect the outcomes of things either, do they?
Might as well accept the idea that the status quo is just fine and think that getting a conservative president alone is going to get us out of this.
And what is YOUR plan?
Doesn't it seem a little odd to say that you would support a leader who will not backdown from social positions that you loathe? The product of which would be bad laws and policies which you loathe? Hold on to your conservative principles when you vote, because supporting Giulianni will have far reaching effects if he wins the nominsation and it will essentially signal the end of a National GOP that even tries to be socially conservative.
A win for a social liberal in the GOP would suggest to the party leadership that the social conservative nature of its platform is not essential to win elections. Consequently, the party leadership will not support conservative legislation because it shows that the base is willing to compromise on conservatism and support "progressive" social positions in a candidate. (In other words the party will know that conservatism is not a prerequisite for winning the GOP nomination with the result that the GOP will produce even less conservative results).
You're right, but it will never happen. They just don't get the idea that "turning the other cheek" just gets the other cheek smacked.
They can't grasp the concept that they get more respect for fighting back and being harsh about it when they are being crapped on than they do by just letting the crap pile on until they are suffocated.
The average uninformed, sometimes lazy and oft times ignorant voters out there will believe the democrat lies if they hear nothing forceful coming from the gop to shoot down the lies.
The idiocy in the gop goes from the top down to the local/county gop orgs. The rest of us who might even complain to the local or state bigwigs are ignored because they have all bought into this "take the high road" crap. They are like a pack of lemmings taking the high road right off the edge.
Clearly I'm getting very frustrated. I suppose that is why the citizens of some nations ignore certain things just to usher in a "strong man" dictator.
LOL...let me know the on-sale dates would ya? Thanks...oh since we are talking about Gonzales...I should say...gracias.
> It seems like the republicans have been apologizing a lot lately
Until the last election, when they screwed up (as Gonzales did here), they could count on a do-nothing, rubber stamp Congress to whitewash it for them.
Elections have consequences.
From Washington Times
Downward spiral at Justice
By Bob Barr
March 17, 2007
Back in 1988, during my tenure as the United States Attorney in Atlanta, and while my office was concluding an investigation of Pat Swindall, at the time one of only two Republican congressmen from Georgia, the other -- Newt Gingrich -- opined publicly that perhaps I was a "rogue U.S. Attorney" for pursuing this particular prosecution.
In fact, the future Speaker of the House was mild in his veiled criticism, compared to the furious, behind-the-scenes activity by many other Republican leaders unhappy with my decision to prosecute a sitting Republican congressman.
While the criticism quickly abated months later when a jury found Swindall guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice, the whole exercise revealed some important lessons for me and for the system of criminal justice in our country.
As the Swindall case unfolded, and as calls mounted by supporters of the former suburban Atlanta congressman to halt our prosecution, the Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese (and then, Dick Thornburgh) responded clearly and consistently. The department's position was made clear -- as long as a U.S. attorney is pursuing a valid prosecution, even one involving a sitting elected official, the department will not itself interfere to stop, slow or speed up that process; nor would it allow the White House to improperly influence such matters.
By this example were the American people and other U.S. Attorneys reminded that enforcement of our federal criminal laws would be based solely on the facts and the law, and not on political concerns or pressures.
The profound importance of this lesson extended far beyond the case involving then-Rep. Swindall or any other person charged with criminal offenses. It reinforced the principal that justice is blind and that the American people's faith in the justice system was neither misplaced nor endangered.
Now, one generation later, the Justice Department response to similar pressures is very different and very troubling. The actions of top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, illustrates that these lessons have been forgotten or deliberately ignored.
While the hubris of a sitting U.S. senator attempting to pressure a U.S. attorney to accelerate a prosecution for electoral gain is not unique in the annals of federal criminal law, the fact that an attorney general has allowed even the appearance that such pressure figured in the dismissal of a presidentially appointed U.S. attorney is unusual and deeply troubling.
Also disturbing are e-mails that indicate a determined effort by high political operatives at the White House, working with political appointees at Justice, to identify, remove and replace U.S. attorneys deemed insufficiently loyal to the president. Such a maneuver, while not unlawful -- after all a president possesses authority to fire all or particular U.S. attorneys at will -- is highly corrosive of the fundamental and vital notion that federal justice is administered fairly, impartially and in a nonpartisan manner.
That Mr. Gonzales has accepted responsibility for the "mistakes" made in this matter is laudable; but he should not be let off the hook so easily. Nor should his boss, the president of the United States.
We have an attorney general who seems to view his job as an opportunity to show the country he can overcome "obstacles" by weathering this storm without backing down. But there is much more at stake than one man's odyssey to prove himself a tough hombre. The question is not what "obstacles" Alberto Gonzales has had to overcome in his career; that is completely irrelevant. What Congress and the American people should now ask themselves is: Where is the systemic commitment to merit and fairness that used to prevail in the halls of Justice? Where are the lawyers with the character to resist pressure to do the wrong thing, not because doing so might prove "disruptive," but because doing so would be deeply and morally wrong? Where is the adult leadership?
Of course, for an attorney general who believes the great writ of habeas corpus is no longer a bedrock principle of American jurisprudence, and who believes a president is not bound to follow requirements of the laws signed by him or his predecessors, such questions probably are viewed as unimportant.
It has been a long time since we've seen a top government official put fealty to the Constitution ahead of blind loyalty to a president and step aside; and it doesn't appear we will witness it now. But even if the attorney general steps down for the wrong reasons, the process of healing the damage to the institutions of our federal justice system can at least begin.
Bob Barr is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia and a former U.S. attorney there.
Sorry, those aren't my keywords
You made some comment about Gonzales dragging the administration down.
Who do you think appointed Gonzales?
Does it occur to you that Gonzales is EXACTLY what Bush and Rove wanted.
An AG that does not enforce border laws, that gives Sandy Burglar a wrist slap and then jails two border patrol agents because they shot a known drug smuggler in the butt.
Fire all of them and that will be the end of the morale problem.
That is not what his homepage reads.
Very close...though.
and his posts are always a very easy going criticsm of the administration...this guy does not pass the smell test...look at his Bob Barr post.
If I am wrong, I will be the first to admit it later.
Get the viking kitties....we are getting infiltrated.
Is it me or do the jellyfish appear to be running almost all year long in the Potomac Basin.. Global Warming?
You're probably right.
When the Democrats are calling for the resignation of a Republican I want to see go anyway, I would rather keep him around than give them their pound of flesh. See: Trent Lott after the Thurmond birthday comments. I wanted him out of his leadership position, but not in a way that would give the Democrats a victory.
That said, Gonzales is now helping the Democrats to create a scandal that doesn't exist, so he needs to get the hell out of there. Can't believe Bush wanted this cretin on the Court.
Right, and I am getting really sick of seeing our elected representatives apologize, get relieved of office, etc. when the dimwits don't do anything to their's. This is sickening and why are they doing it?
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