BLOG | Posted 04/20/2007 @ 09:01am
GOP to Gonzales: Care For Some Hemlock?
The reviews are in: The Bush White House pronounces the president "pleased" with his solicitor's response to the rabble.
It is a discreet pleasure.
While the president may be satisfied with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the response of just about everyone else -- including some of the nation's most conservative Republicans -- was anything but positive.
The online report on the testimony at the site of the National Review, America's leading conservative magazine, was headlined: "Alberto Gonzales strikes out."
The report declared the Attorney General's testimony about his role in the U.S. Attorneys scandal to have been "disastrous."
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For the record, Gonzales hit what many believe to have been a record for "don't recalling" by a Cabinet member appearing before an oversight hearing: 64. And that does not count the dozens of "do-not-remember" and "can't-quite-recollect" variations.
But Gonzales will be worrying less about National Review than about Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. Sure, Democrats were tough on Gonzales, but many of the roughest critiques came from the Attorney General's partisan "allies." .....(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=188327