The Failed Attorney General: NY Times calls for removal of Alberto Gonzales

[Elidor]

During the hearing on his nomination as attorney general, Alberto Gonzales said he understood the difference between the job he held — President Bush’s in-house lawyer — and the job he wanted, which was to represent all Americans as their chief law enforcement officer and a key defender of the Constitution. Two years later, it is obvious Mr. Gonzales does not have a clue about the difference.

He has never stopped being consigliere to Mr. Bush’s imperial presidency. If anyone, outside Mr. Bush’s rapidly shrinking circle of enablers, still had doubts about that, the events of last week should have erased them.

(snip)
It was Mr. Gonzales, after all, who repeatedly defended Mr. Bush’s decision to authorize warrantless eavesdropping on Americans’ international calls and e-mail. He was an eager public champion of the absurd notion that as commander in chief during a time of war, Mr. Bush can ignore laws that he thinks get in his way. Mr. Gonzales was disdainful of any attempt by Congress to examine the spying program, let alone control it.

The attorney general helped formulate and later defended the policies that repudiated the Geneva Conventions in the war against terror, and that sanctioned the use of kidnapping, secret detentions, abuse and torture. He has been central to the administration’s assault on the courts, which he recently said had no right to judge national security policies, and on the constitutional separation of powers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/opinion/11sun1.html?_r=5&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login

[PDittie]

1. Impeach him

because * will never fire him.

[lovuian]

2. NY Times says it so well He is not doing the job for americans

He is doing his job for Bush


theres a difference

[fooj]

3. Good-bye Gonzo.

Treasonous, rat bastard.:grr:

[Erika]

4. He should be gone

As soon as possible. He is an enemy of the people.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Hard to believe, but Gonzales makes Ashcroft look like a civil libertarian

Gonzales and the FBI Director should resign, or be impeached by Congress. They both broke the law, and the repressive PATRIOT Act at that!

[luckyleftyme2]

8. we agree

you should also add Bush and Cheney to that list.

[Purveyor]

6. Now "that's what I'm talking about", indeed!!! n/t

[Norrin Radd]

7. Gonzales should be exiled. n/t

[ReadTomPaine]

9. The time has come to purge Alberto.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x386690

Word is that he's back room dealing with Senate republicans to keep his job after the debacle with Leahy and Specter on the 8th and the FBI scandal which broke the next day.

[BlueManDude]

10. The Dems need to have his scalp on a platter

[Eric J in MN]

11. Bring back John Ashcroft!

(joke)

[durtee librul]

12. I know it's not true, BUT

wouldn't it be nice if he was found to be an illegal alien with no green card? One could wish can't one?

[saltpoint]

13. The Left thinks the TIMES is too establishmentarian and the Right hates it

because it's "too liberal."

At its best, the TIMES is like this.

What a swift, hard punch to the president this is.

I agree with every syllable.

[Tellurian]

14. Rest Assured..

"On Thursday, Senator Arlen Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hinted very obliquely that perhaps Mr. Gonzales’s time was up. We’re not going to be oblique. Mr. Bush should dismiss Mr. Gonzales and finally appoint an attorney general who will use the job to enforce the law and defend the Constitution."

The GOP wails "obliquely" Mr. Gonzales must go. Why hasn't Spector demanded Gonzales roll back the deletions and revisions he's written, weakening the Constitution to the point of rebalancing the separation of Powers favoring The Executive Branch?

And rest assured, Anton Scalia has been working overtime with his Federalist Club (think tank) authoring the changes to the Constitution and Fedexing the Federalist version to Gonzales for submission.

If the changes to our Constitution aren't considered Acts of Treason and Sedition done by this renegade Federalist Group, I don't know what is.