Should Gonzales Go?

Human Events ^ | March 20, 2007 | John Gizzi

[jrooney]

Not only no but HELL NO!

[Lucas McCain]

I don't like the guy because of how he allowed the prosecution of the two border agents. Having said that, I'd hate to see him drummed out of office by the democrats for some stupid trumped up thing.

[traderrob6]

And it won't slow up the Dems one bit if he did. First Gonzales and onto Rove.

[Brilliant]

Yes, but only because of his refusal to enforce the immigration laws.

[HaveHadEnough]

I have a fear that if and when Gonzalez testifies about the firings, he will malign the reputations and characters of the United States Attorneys that were fired, after telling the USAs that they were being replaced, not because of performance reasons, but because the White House wanted to replace them with other individuals.

If the administration simply stuck with its plan to let these USAs go because they wanted to “give someone else the opportunity” to serve (as they intended), a lot of this would have been avoided.

[CheyennePress]

This story makes some very relevant points--some that have bothered me for a long time. The White House and the Justice Department have REFUSED to go after the leakers in the administration.

Heads should have figuratively rolled over the NSA and the NYT bank transfer leaks, and nothing happened. At all. And it seems we have an endless stream of pointless cases being brought against conservatives on a regular basis.

That said, it's too little too late with Gonzalez. Sending him down the river only harms Republicans more. In no way should he resign or be forced out of office. I see no reason to appease any Democrat at all. If anything, they should be called childish and left to strew in their animosity.

[bert]

One of the Attorneys replaced was from nNevada..... is Dingy Harry worried?

[bert]

One of the Attorneys replaced was from nNevada..... is Dingy Harry worried?

[conservative in nyc]

I have a fear that if and when Gonzalez testifies about the firings, he will malign the reputations and characters of the United States Attorneys that were fired, after telling the USAs that they were being replaced, not because of performance reasons, but because the White House wanted to replace them with other individuals.

The USAs were given no reason for their firings by anyone at the Justice Department, which is one of the reasons why this has blown up as it has. If you read through the e-mails released today, you'd see that the fired USA from Michigan was asking Justice Department officials why she was fired as recently as the beginning of this month.

I think Gonzalez has been soft on some key issues and isn't a hard-core conservative. But he ought not be fired over this nothing of a "scandal".

[Jaysun]

This is just the latest in a string of bogus "scandals". Lies about WMD, no bid Halliburton, uranium from Niger, leaking Valerie Plame, Tom DeLay, unsafe air at ground zero, Guantánamo Bay Torture, and on and on and on and on.....

It's all bullsh*t. We have to stop bending over. Gonzales has to stay.

[South40]

Yes, but only because of his refusal to enforce the immigration laws.

But he is only doing the bidding of his boss, George W. Boosh.

[conservativeharleyguy]

This is politics. Take the long view.

This is all about smearing Gonzales now to preempt any chance of his appointment to a Supreme Court vacancy that might arise in the next two years.

Pure and simple, it's all about the Democrats positioning him for the kill.

I wish the Republican Party leadership would remember how to fight. They just need to quit laying down for these idiots, and fight back.

[tubebender]

NO!!!

[HaveHadEnough]

I've heard at least one of the United States Attorneys say on camera that he was told when he was fired that the administration had no problem with the job that he did, but that they wanted to give another individual an opportunity to perform the job.

[HaveHadEnough]

I think Gonzalez has been soft on some key issues and isn't a hard-core conservative. But he ought not be fired over this nothing of a "scandal".

So Gonzales does not deserve to be fired, but these United States Attorneys did deserve to be?

[dalereed]

"Gonzales has to stay"

He should never have been confirmed, the quicker he's gone the better as far as i'm concerned.

Send him to Mexico where his loyalty is.

[IamConservative]

This is more of a separation of powers issue to me. Also going by more or less unnoticed in the MSM today was the Senate passing a bill that takes away the POTUS authority to fire the US Attorneys. I think this is the kind if thing Bush and Cheney will bare their knuckles on should win on.

[conservative in nyc]

That might have been said by Bud Cummins, who, contrary to media reports, is not part of the 7 pushed out in November/December. He was pushed out before that.

Everyone else, the Justice Department deliberately engaged in a campaign NOT to give them any reason for their removal, other than that they serve at the pleasure of the President.

There are memos that explicitly say this. I don't make things up.

[IamConservative]

This is more of a separation of powers issue to me. Also going by more or less unnoticed in the MSM today was the Senate passing a bill that takes away the POTUS authority to fire the US Attorneys. I think this is the kind if thing Bush and Cheney will bare their knuckles on should win on.

To correct my mistake here, the Senate took away the authority of the AG to replace US Attorneys without confirmation by the Senate. Still a separation of powers issue which I would expect W to bare his knuckles on.