When Gonzales goes, it won't be for the right reasons,..

[Parisle]

--- And it does now certainly appear that he may be "going." But however one wishes to characterize his part in the neocon purge of US attornies,... whether as poor judgement, bungling or outright malfeasance, the issue necessarily attaches more pointedly to those above him, than to Gonzales, himself. After all, he was only following orders,.... orders from the same "boss" for whom he has worked for twelve years.

--- The real crime at hand is the cronyist subjugation of the Judiciary to partisan neocon ideologues, and this is only about the third or fourth major incidence of a very small and secretive neocon cabal attempting to literally "take over" the US government. And that's not counting election irregularities.

--- How many former ENRON operatives ended up in the Bush administration? Eight? How many PNAC'ers? Over a dozen? Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court? Oh, please. It doesn't take a Columbo to see the pattern, here.

--- Gonzales was appointed SPECIFICALLY because he would ignore the Constitution and do what Bush told him to do. Problem is, BOTH their jobs are to uphold the Constitution. Gonzales was a mere accomplice in what remains only an attempted coup of legal US government.

--- He should be treated as any other criminal accomplice,... namely by being given the opportunity to roll over on his superiors. Make him an offer he can't refuse. Permitting him to be "fired" and walk away would be a greater crime than any of the shit he pulled while squatting in his office.

[lligrd]

1. Hey, Maybe They Cah Hold An Investigatioon Into Gonzo's

firing too. Find out why he was really fired. In fact, I think we should investigate every move they make since it usually involve something illegal.

[Parisle]

2. I like the way you think...

--- And as far as "every move they make" is concerned, I've often thought about the possibility of an incoming democratic administration finding some outlandish means of "annulling" the entire Bush administration,.... saying, in effect, that everything they did is hereby erased. I know it isn't plausible,... but it's pretty much what needs to be done.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. I agree with you and would only add,

"with every step they take." This country is in desperate shape, not just the debt, but what's been done to the Constitution. It's not going to be easy to undo the damage done.

[sutz12]

4. They keep throwing people under the bus....

Their problem is, they have to keep throwing higher ranking people for each situation.

Eventually, you get to the top.

It's Nixon redux. Funny how it's been some of the same assholes (Rummy and Cheney, for example) being caught at pretty much the same bullshit.

This time, I hope we get no pardons, although I don't have a lot of real hope of that.

[Parisle]

5. Yes, but there is an opportunity here,....

--- And we can only hope that the democrats do not let it slip away. The means by which the nation rids itself of Gonzales can also be the means by which we further pierce the veil of secrecy that the Bush junta has pulled around its activities. I'm guessing that the first step would be to see to it that Gonzales is actually "charged" with something which can be prosecuted, and a sentence handed down.