ABC: Schumer renews call for Gonzales to step down - Gonzales cancels planned trip for today

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2946966

DEMOCRATIC SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER RENEWS HIS CALL FOR U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO GONZALES TO STEP DOWN

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The long-simmering feud erupted with the new revelations, causing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to cancel a planned trip Tuesday to Syracuse, N.Y., amid calls from Congress for his ouster.

[AndyA]

1. Good. Maybe something is shaking loose if he cancelled his trip.

Perhaps he's staying in D.C. to clean out his desk?

Don't let the door hit ya, Albie.

See you at your corruption trial.

[Sydnie]

2. He's bringing Rove into it too!

Asking for Rove to volunteer to testify rather than waiting for a subpoena.

Good for you Chuck! Say it louder!

[bdamomma]

3. these thugs are so arrogant I do not expect him to do it.

bushie will come out and say what a good American he is, and what a wonderful job he is doing, enough to make me :puke:

[Zynx]

4. He's too politically weak to remain. Really has to go.

[bdamomma]

6. hey they should condi in there too, oh, that's waxman's case

[wicket]

11. Yup, when right-wing bootlickers like Michelle Malkin are calling for his head...

...you just know his days are limited.

[ck4829]

5. Impeach Gonzales!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=400501&mesg_id=400501

[peacetalksforall]

7. If he goes will be go back to being the personal lawyer of Kg. George.

[Virginia Dare]

8. If he perjured himself before Congress, could he get disbarred?

that would be a good thing.

[liberal N proud]

9. Gonzales isn't smart enough to know when the time has come

I was going to say something stupid like Gonzo will be Gonezo but I don't believe he will ever step down, just not that smart.

[meldroc]

10. What do I want? Vir Cotto said it best...

I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange it for me, Mr. Gonzales?

Hi, Agent Mike, hope you don't mind me quoting Babylon 5...

[Blackhatjack]

12. Soon Gonzales Will Take Off the AG hat, but continue to advise Bush...

... same as Rumsfeld resigning and keeping an office at the Pentagon.

You cannot get rid of these guys as long as Bush is in office.

[never cry wolf]

13. News Update: AG Gonzales announces extended vacation to Paraguay

He will be leaving in the dead of the night.

[Nikki Stone1]

14. It matters little if he steps down. * will remove a lighting rod and replace it with another flunkie

That's how these people work. Get the tarnished name out of the news (by resignation, stepping down, moving to a new position) and bring in a new loyalist, who will stay until he or she is put under the spotlight. The only person who escaped this fate for a while was Rumsfeld, until the election of a Democratic Congress made him vulnerable. And some of them still continue to work under the radar. Remember that Richard Perle is still a part of the Defense Policy Board, even though he was removed from the leadership position. Even Rumsfeld still has an office and a staff (and probably input);

[meldroc]

17. Getting the replacement flunkie is complicated...

by the fact that said flunkie needs to be confirmed by the Democratically controlled Senate. I presume that means that the complete raving lunatics, fundies and neo-cons can be screened out, so Bush can put forward someone he can sell to the Senate as Mostly Harmless.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

20. You may be expecting too much

I presume that means that the complete raving lunatics, fundies and neo-cons can be screened out

Given the democrats complete lack of spine on so many issues, I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to come through on anything.

Impeach the freaking vice-president already. He's up to his eyeballs in the Plame affair. Even if what he did is technically legal, it destroyed the anti-proliferation division at the CIA by bringing down Brewster Jennings. Destroying an intelligence asset like that is treason, whether it is legally defined that way or not. He's had a hand is too many crimes to mention.

Don't wait for Gonzo to resign. Impeach his sorry ass today. He's the author of these presidential power fantasies that BushCo has been pushing for years. His role in the prosecutor scandal is clearly an abuse of power and BTW, he's sworn to uphold the Constitution. That's a joke! He specializes in legal arguments that subvert the Constitution.

While the Judiciary is meeting they might as well impeach the chimp too. There is always the violation of FISA. He violated the law, the Constitution and his oath of office all at the same time. He probably did that at least ten times in the last six years, but one is enough to get the process started.

[BlooInBloo]

15. UPDATE: Gonzo to hold press conference at 2pm EST...

... A resignation is too much to hope for, isn't it?

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002741.php

[BlooInBloo]

19. UPDATE UPDATE: DOJ emails about the purge...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/012994.php

Maybe it IS all going down today - too fast for them even to TRY to get a viable defense going.


EDIT: Quicker link, while TPM "TPM-izes" the docs... http://judiciary.house.gov/

[blogslut]

16. CNN sez

That Gonzo will have a press conference @ 2:00 PM EST today. Can it only be about his top aid resigning?

[meldroc]

18. Probably is Gonzo's aide...

He's hoping that throwing him under the bus will save his own hide...