NYTimes Editorial: "Politics - Pure and Cynical" (Gonzales 'lousy choice for job in first place')

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/opinion/14wed1.html

Editorial
Politics, Pure and Cynical

Published: March 14, 2007
We wish we’d been surprised to learn that the White House was deeply involved in the politically motivated firing of eight United States attorneys, but the news had the unmistakable whiff of inevitability. This disaster is just part of the Bush administration’s sordid history of waving the bloody bullhorn of 9/11 for the basest of motives: the perpetuation of power for power’s sake.

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Department of Justice Released Documents
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Documents Regarding the Department of Justice Firings From the House Judiciary Committee Web Site

Time and again, President Bush and his team have assured Americans that they needed new powers to prevent another attack by an implacable enemy. Time and again, Americans have discovered that these powers were not being used to make them safer, but in the service of Vice President Dick Cheney’s vision of a presidency so powerful that Congress and the courts are irrelevant, or Karl Rove’s fantasy of a permanent Republican majority.

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But these firings had nothing to do with national security — or officials’ claims that the attorneys were fired for poor performance. This looks like a political purge, pure and simple, and President Bush and his White House are in the thick of it.

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Mr. Gonzales, who has shown why he was such an awful choice for this job in the first place, should be called under oath to resolve the contradictions and inconsistencies in his story. Mr. Gonzales is willing to peddle almost any nonsense to the public (witness his astonishingly maladroit use of the Nixonian “mistakes were made” dodge yesterday). But lying to Congress under oath is another matter.

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[babylonsister]

1. Looks good, but do you have a link? nt

[Hissyspit]

4. Fixed. n/t

[Atman]

2. Nancy Pelosi determined to consider possibly being quite miffed.

Maybe even a non-binding resolution of upsettedness. Oooooh...those wascally wepubwicans.

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[babylonsister]

5. You watched Stewart.

:spank: :D

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3. cheney's vision is of a president so powerful that the VICE-president can do whatever he wants

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