Gonzales should NOT quit, because...

[TreasonousBastard]

first, this is probably the worst week the administration has ever had-- on top of the Libby verdict and Walter Reed, the war is still going badly, Zbignew Brezinski is running around giving them an "F" for foreign affairs, Pace ran his big mouth, the mortgage and stock market thing, gas is going up, and Mayabn priests are purifying the defiled ground Shrub walked on, and even the true believers are doubting.

And Gonzo. And it's only Wednmesday morning.

Leahy was pissed when he saw the emails and memos about the attorneys. Really pissed. He said so. And now he's holding hearings-- hearings that could give us the smoking gun for impeachment.

If Gonzo goes, much of the thunder is lost. The White House replaces him with someone palatable, takes credit for solving the problem, and makes it much tougher to pin the problem on Shrub himself when you don't have a sitting AG hauled in front of Congress to explain himself.

Let the White House sit and squirm as Gonzo, his fired help, Karen Hughes, Rove and the rest of them are called in to testify.

Let the show go on as Shrub himself gets called before Congress and is forced to use executive privilege and fight the committee. Let's have the huge public fight over who sees what documents that the4 White House won't want out.

It wasn't bombing Cambodia or the Watergate breakin that got Nixon ousted-- it was just a few minutes of missing tape. It wasn't Whitewater that hooked Clinton, it was a blue dress and a cigar.

Let's keep Gonzo in the job and on the hotseat and find Shrub's "blue dress."

[b_cmh]

1. Shrub

... LMFAO

[POAS]

3. Welcome to DU

I don't get the LMFAO comment. What are you guffawing at exactly?

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Using the term "Shrub" to refer to Bush is standard here

But for others, it may be new, and it is extremely funny. I suspect that's what induced the laughter.

[POAS]

9. yea, i'm so used to it

i forget it may be new to others

[POAS]

2. This is going to lead to

a major conflict between the WH and the Congress over "Executive Priviledge". You can hear it immediately in the language used by the WH. The mantra of the week is "the US attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President". Clearly they are shwping this as the exective branch dealing with internal personnel matters and that the Congress has no role to play.

Problem is there is the small matter of the Constitution to deal with. While a back door amendment seems to give the Executive the power to appoint replacements for the attorneys without Congressional oversight it was only intended that such power be exercised in a time of national emergency, not as a means of circumventing Congressional oversight.

The Democratic majority is moving immediately to correct the law and the committee chairs are issuing subpeonas which I am sure the executive wil resist.

Gonzo will not go early, they need to keep him under that umbrella of "Executive Priveledge" as long as possible.

[bearfan454]

8. That darn Constitution just keeps getting in the way of the

right wing's plans for this country. It does.

[saltpoint]

10. That's cuz them damn Founders were all Secular Humanists!

May they rot in hell!

[formercia]

4. I want to see them all twist in the wind.

Robspierre never had it this good.

[sendero]

5. I kind of agree with you...

... my only concern is the Dems just letting it blow over like they have so many other similar events.

But the fact is, for the Bush administration, the resignation of Gonzo would probably be the EASIEST way out. And don't worry, they know that. They can already see, if they have a political brain in their head (and that's the only kind they DO have), that this "they were fired for poor performance" idea isn't going to fly, period.

So they can either fire/resign the guy, or they can twist in the wind as hearing after hearing are held. Isn't it delicious, either way we win something.

[Atman]

6. Know we all know why Chimpy wanted Harriet Meiers on the SCOTUS

He was trying to cover all the bases before all this proverbial shit hit the fan. He needed everybody secure and locked down. Oops. Poor George.

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