Eleanor Clift Predicts Gonzales Gone On Good Friday When Press Goes Home

[eleny]

She just predicted this on The McLaughlin Group. Congress will be in recess and the press will be wanting to head home for Easter.

[Cha]

1. And then they'll dump him...they are oh

so clever ..too clever by far..

[eleny]

4. She meant he would be dumped on Good Friday

Presumably when people aren't watching. :hi:

[Solly Mack]

2. and Bush can make a recess appointment

and wouldn't have to worry about senate confirmation until December 2008....and by then it wouldn't matter.

[eleny]

3. My head is spinning - How right you are!

:crazy:

[Solly Mack]

5. I wondered about it the other day on another thread

if that was the plan or not

[eleny]

7. Maybe she read your posting!

Eleanor, shame shame! :spank:

Or maybe great minds think alike. She was just a little slow. }(

[Solly Mack]

LOL I'm pretty sure she knew of the possibility already

[eleny]

9. Shhhhhhhh -- DUers rule!

[gkhouston]

14. and then what -- give Gonzo a job in the WH so they can make a bogus

executive privilege claim? It's a sure thing that the next AG will have to be a "go down with the ship" Bushie, a la Karen Hughes...

[Solly Mack]

17. Bush can always issue a blanket pardon for all acts while AG

and claim he's doing it to save Gonzales from the evil Democratic Party and their "witch hunt" and let's face it, a lot of GOP voters would pounce on it and eat it up.

[gkhouston]

20. with Bush approval numbers in the low 30's, I'm not sure "a lot" of GOP voters

would go for it, although the kool aid drinkers certainly would.

[Solly Mack]

21. You think Bush gives a damn about GOP voters?

For the most part they aren't his "base" either

Joe Blow Republican ain't exactly on the pioneer list of donors

[eleny]

22. Accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt

As some have said. :evilgrin:

[Solly Mack]

24. True - but it's still a pardon

and it won't hurt him any...it didn't hurt the Iran Contra crowd

[eleny]

27. I wonder if in this climate if it would strengthen the Dems hand

We're stuck in Iraq. W's popularity is at historic lows. Just wondering if it would only create Rove's greatest nightmare - a huge voter turnout in '08. The smell of corruption is what he used to win elections. Turn around could bite the collective Republican ass.

[Solly Mack]

30. I think it would actually...help the Democratic Party

if Bush is in protect my own ass mode and screw the rest...well...all bets are off...Bush is liable to do anything

so I don't know if he would care if he did something that ultimately helped the Democratic Party as long as it saved his ass in some way

[eleny]

33. He isn't in the mode of saving the Party and Repubs running in '08

It's been one for one all for one since he got into office.

[Solly Mack]

34. I agree

but I do think he'd try and protect Rove and Hughes if he had to...but I also think Rove is fairly adept at saving himself.

In the end it's the business deals/connections that are more important than the party to neo-cons and other assorted Bushies...the party is the vehicle used to obtain the deals and laws favorable to them


Much like they use religion to appeal to the religious right, the GOP itself is a handy tool

People like Dobson, Falwell and Robertson are more about the power their role as religious leader brings them than they are about saving souls. So while the political end uses them to gain votes, the religious right uses the political end to increase their power (and wealth)

[eleny]

35. I wonder when he'd arrive at the point where he'd throw R & H under the bus

He's had long standing relationships with both Rove and Hughes. But he's also messianic as Alter pointed out the other day to Olbermann. So he's really buggering nuts. The Paraguay land keeps coming back to mind. Private armies to protect them and plenty of money. This American story is more like a movie script.

it's just that I think everyone is fodder for the bus wheels. And to think, no matter what the evil shenanigans, people voted for him by the millions and had to be peeled away from him one by one over these past 6+ years.

[cboy4]

13. D'oh BOLTON!!

Good thinking....I forgot about that option.

[Solly Mack]

25. Not saying he will...but he could and well...like you just said

We got Bolton that way...

[eleny]

28. Do you think he could make it through the Senate?

I have my doubts.

[cboy4]

29. No, remember....Bolton was a recess appointment

I dug this up ;)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/01/bolton.appointment/index.html

[Solly Mack]

31. He wouldn't have to -no recess appointment would at this time

A recess appointment is good until the END of the NEXT session

the 110th is only in the first session and this session doesn't end until Dec 2007...and the 2nd or next session doesn't begin until Jan 2008 and ends Dec of 2008...after the Presidential elections.

[rodeodance]

6. Mark Shields said he is on his own now (Repugs silent on him)

[eleny]

8. I always miss him on the PBS news show

I need to remember to tivo that. I like him.

[Lint Head]

10. Any Friday is a good Friday if

it's the day this jerk leaves. Simply having to replace this 'piece of excrement' is devastating for the Bush administration.
:dem:

[Tom Joad]

11. I got lots of ice cream riding on Friday, April 13th... but it will be good to see him go...

anytime...

ice cream you ask? See the gonzo thing at http://www.truemajority.org/

[eleny]

18. iaskiask!

[cboy4]

12. Well Gonzales does seem like the cowardly type, and he's

certainly a huge liar and a disgrace.

So he has all of the shameless qualities that would lead an individual like him to
slip out the back door in the middle of the night.

[sendero]

15. I really don't think..

.... Gonzo is going to survive this. He will be dumped in a FUTILE effort to put this episode in the past.

The good news is, it's not going to work.

[gkhouston]

16. Agreed -- it is *so* not going to work.

And I am so going to enjoy watching it not work.

[jwirr]

19. Do they really think we won't notice? I don't care when he goes as

long as he goes.

[gkhouston]

23. I would dearly love it if a reporter directly asked Bush whether he was going

to do this. (Failing an opportunity to grill *, why not ask Perrino?) Go ahead, call them on their dodge in advance.

[Solly Mack]

26. excellent idea...I wish someone would ask him or her just that

see what they say...

[whistle]

32. Good Friday is when BushCo gives the order to begin bombing Iran