Gonzales Seeks GOP Support _ Gets Little

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Source: ap vis guardian



Gonzales Seeks GOP Support _ Gets Little


Friday April 20, 2007 8:46 PM

AP Photo DCDA139, DCDA131

By DAVID ESPO

AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) ...........

There were fresh calls from Democrats for Gonzales to step down. ``The president should restore credibility to the office of the attorney general. Alberto Gonzales must resign,'' said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California.

Gonzales and other administration officials had hoped his appearance Thursday would produce a groundswell of support among Republicans, but there was little if any evidence of that.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was traveling, and a spokesman referred reporters to noncommittal comments the Kentucky lawmaker had made on April 1.

``I think most Republican senators are willing to give the attorney general a chance to come up before the Judiciary Committee and give his side of this story, and are likely to withhold judgment about whether he can be effective in the Senate in dealing with us, until after we hear from him before the Judiciary Committee,'' McConnell had said at the time.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6574529,00.html

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1. ..At the White House on Friday, Perino lavished praise on Gonzales.

.......At the White House on Friday, Perino lavished praise on Gonzales. ``He has done a fantastic job at the Department of Justice. He is our No. 1 crime fighter. He has done so much to help keep this country safe from terrorists. He has worked determinately to prevent predators from attacking our children,'' she said.

``He has worked - they have a fantastic record of fighting corruption in government and in keeping gang violence off our streets.

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3. "fantastic" per the Oxford Dictionary:

• (adjective)imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality

don't think these slimeballs don't know exactly what they are saying. they know the record is "fantastic" and the job AG's done is "fantastic". this word is used in case of future subpoenaed testimony: "we weren't lying. we said "fantastic" and we meant "fantastic" in the primary dictionary definition sense of the word."

[whistle]

2. Alberto is the Bush patsy...he needs to come clean before they

...totally destroy him or literally throw him under a bus. KKKarl Rove's sorry ass is not worth giving up your own and neither are Bush and Cheney worth saving.

[aquart]

5. Anything he says will put him in jail.

He has committed more crimes than most career felons. And his were bigger.

[Cobalt-60]

7. they can promise him anything if he just takes one for Dubya

OFC he'd be an idiot to believe any such promise.
But we are talking about gonzo here.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Why was McConnell traveling when the Senate was in session?

[truthisfreedom]

6. Gonzales isn't someone you would want to voice support for. He can't remember anything.

He sounds like a complete criminal on the stand.

[ShockediSay]

10. Alzheimer's -- the Repug epidemic nt

[rasputin1952]

8. After that hearing, he'd be lucky if he got support from a ...

jock strap.

As near as I can figure, the only one who would be worse in the Hot Seat is bush.

[pinniped]

9. Sorry, a POS with zero credibility can not restore credibility to anything.

``The presidunce should restore credibility to the office of the attorney general. Alberto Gonzales must resign,'' said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California.