Gonzales: I’m Staying For The Kids

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/22/gonzales-staying-kids/

Gonzales: I’m Staying For The Kids

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced this morning: “I’m not going to resign. I’m going to stay focused on protecting our kids.” Speaking before a Project Safe Childhood event, Gonzales told reporters he plans “to go up to the Congress and provide further clarification” about the U.S. Attorney purge, and claimed that his department has been “tremendous in the area of public corruption.” Watch it:

Gonzales’ declaration that he intends to stay “focused on protecting our kids” comes as he launches a cross-country PR tour to save his job:

“CBS News has learned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will take to the road to fight for his job, spending the next week traveling the country to see as many US Attorneys as he can. One source says he’ll apologize not for firing eight of their colleagues but for the way he handled it. will start his mea culpa tour tomorrow in St. Louis.”

“A day after Bush gave his attorney general a vote of confidence, Gonzales appeared to be launching a campaign to save his job by repairing relations with prosecutors in the field and reaching out to political supporters. His office released a dozen testimonials from Latinos and law enforcement groups, with many saying that Gonzales, the first Latino attorney general, was being unfairly held accountable for the fiasco.”

“Embattled Attorney General met this afternoon with several Republican Senators, including Orrin Hatch, Jon Kyl, John Cornyn and Jeff Sessions, GOP sources said. The lunch meeting held at the Department of Justice, sources said, was initiated by Gonzales. A source familiar with the meeting says it was an attempt by Gonzales to reach out to Republicans who have been decidedly unhappy with how he has handled the US Attorney mess.”

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Transcript:

GONZALES: I’m not going to resign. I’m going to stay focused on protecting our kids. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done around the country. The department is responsible for protecting our kids, for making our neighborhoods safe, for protecting our country against attacks of terrorism, to going after gangs, going after drug dealers. I’m staying focussed on that.

Q: General, you were kept out of the loop on the U.S. Attorney firings. Can you still be an effective attorney general?

GONZALES: I think if you look at the record of the department over the past two years it has been tremendous in the area of public corruption, in the area of civil rights enforcement, in the area of going after child pornographers. And so the record of the department has been extremely strong. I am committed to work with Congress to make sure that they have the information that they need to determine what happened here. At the end of the day, we have a situation that the President of the United States has the authority to hire and to fire United States Attorneys. I’m going to go up to the Congress and provide further clarification about what happened here. We are working with Congress voluntarily. No United States Attorney was fired for improper reasons. That’s the message that I’m going to deliver to the United States Congress. Thank you.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Ah, "doin' it for the children." That one's almost as time-worn as...

"spending time with the family." — another phrase that the AG will probably use before long.

[hlthe2b]

2. Ohhh, puhhhleeeze.......

:eyes:

I don't know how he can avoid wretching on his own pretentious BS....

[whistle]

3. "...protecting OUR kids". Just whose kids is Gonzales referring to?

....These Bushies are so delusional!:crazy:

[Solly Mack]

4. Rumsfeld said the same thing in October of 2006

and in November of 2006 , he resigned

"Rumsfeld says he won’t resign"

Bush called him too - to express his support for Rumsfeld amidst all the calls for Rumsfeld's resignation.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, coming under renewed fire for his management of the Iraq war, said Sunday he is not considering resigning and said the president had called him personally in recent days to express his continued support.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15095556/

[Roland99]

5. The kids whose attackers are being practically set free in (where was it) Texas???

Plus, he just announced to the world he was going to LIE TO CONGRESS!!!

"No US Attorney was fired for improper reasons, and that's the message that I'm going to deliver to the United States Congress," he added.

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:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:




ISSUE SUBPOENAES!!!

[louis-t]

6. "We have to protect the kids. So they can grow up to be

cannon fodder."

[MADem]

7. Wait a minute--didn't he call one of those US atty's off a GOP child molester? NT

[Roland99]

8. Ayup. Sure did! Was it in Texas? I can't find the thread or article right now.

[YOY]

9. Doin' it "Fo' the Shorteez!"

The people Sir loin is rapping about. Bring him food, anything, they don't care if its ugly and cold or covered with mold, its 4 da shorteez!

4 da shorteeeeeeeeeeeeeez (Doing it for da Shorteez)
4 da shorteeeeeeeeeeeeeez (Doing it for da Shorteez)
4 da shorteeeeeeeeeeeeeez (For da Shorteez)

4 da Shorteez, gather round let me tell you something. 4 da Shorteez, can’t you hear them little stomachs rumble’n. 4 da Shorteez, yo, you go’n to eat that rake of mutt’n? 4 da Shorteez, the shorteez short of some love’n.

Come on, My name is Sirloin, badass bovine. I Got four stomachs balling, what’s coming to mine. Just a little empty belly with a vacancy sign. Kind of like close encounters of the charity kind.

You got can goods, just collecting dust. You got the meat, got the fruit, got vegetables. Only prerequisite that it’s eatable. Get your freak on at my freaky fruit festival. Cold cuts a must, I’ll even take bread crust, cuz the shorteez be begg’n and beggars don’t give a fuck. They’s hungry, let’s face facts they’s starved, fell the pull in your heart, so fill your shopping cart.

For da Shorteez. (4 da shorteeeeeeeeeeeeees) For da Shorteez y’all. (4 da shorteeeeeeeeeeeeees). For da Shorteez.

Think at what at stake, look upon you plate. If it’s a slab of stake, time to regurgitate. You got a dozen chins, while little Jim’s to slim. Your finger could fit in that little kid’s exposed ribs. Just think of all the shorteez, can’t you hear them cry? Time to cough up that burger and fry. Hand over left overs. Cans piled up high? Give them to the hungry shorteez, so the shorteez won’t die.

Stop the famine please. Instead of eating ham and cheese. Throw away your greens. You’ll be pissing on a dream. Give me all your onion rings, it’s alright listen. Slice of pizza, it don’t matter if a bit’s miss’n. Prime rib, pork chop, porter house it don’t stop. Might seem like hog slop, to the shorteez it’s a lot. They’ve been hungry since birth, so hand over your dessert. Open up you mouth, stick your finger down it could be worse.

Listen closely, gimme all your groceries. Cuz a little baby scream’n man I need a hoagie. Somebody hold me. Somebody console me. Somebody boil me up a pot of pierogies. Think of what we’re face’n. All those little faces. Come on let’s erase this. 4 da shorteez. (Cheek it out)

Doing it for da Shorteez. Doing it for da Shorteez. Doing it for da Shorteez. Doing it for da Shorteez you’ll. For the Shorteeeeeeeez.

Got crackers, got chips, got pudd’n cups. You’d be surprised what little shorteez like to munch. Could be trash, could be mold, could be excrement. Could be a bag of old dippers, they call that lunch. Mayonnaise been out for a couple of days. Go get corpses, scabs and eggs. Sweet bread, pig heads, horses heads too. What to drop it like a habit? Here’s what you do. (For da shorteeeeeeeez)

[C_U_L8R]

10. Kids??? Oh pleeeeeze

he may as well bring out a basket of puppies.

What an asshole.

[MiniMe]

11. ......so they can grow up and be soldiers in the long war