Unhappy Bush says firings not political

[rodeodance]

funny headline

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0703150152mar15,1,1471530.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Unhappy Bush says firings not political
President: Gonzales has `got work to do'

By Mark Silva
Washington Bureau
Published March 15, 2007

WASHINGTON -- President Bush, his trip to Latin America disrupted by a firestorm over the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, said Wednesday he is "not happy" with the Justice Department's public explanation of the firings and added that Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales has "got work to do" to repair relations with Capitol Hill.

Bush insisted he had not lost confidence in Gonzales, but his attempt to deflect criticism of the White House's involvement in the firing of the U.S. attorneys last year is likely to increase pressure on the attorney general, a longtime friend from Texas, who faces calls for resignation from leading members of Congress.

[aquart]

1. Make him say it under oath.

[madame defarge]

2. Ah, he didn't get the memo from Rove...

Rove says Justice scandal just 'politics'

Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff and President Bush’s chief political strategist, was in Troy University in Alabama today where he spoke to a campus audience.

He took questions after his speech was asked about the controversial firings of federal prosecutors. Rove accused critics of the action of playing politics. The Bush Justice Department did nothing that didn’t happen under the prior administration, Rove argued.

“Now, we’re at a point where people want to play politics with it, and that’s fine. I would simply ask that everybody who’s playing politics with this, be asked to comment on what they think of the removal of 123 U.S. attorneys during the previous administration and see if they had the same, superheated political rhetoric then that they’ve havin’ now.”

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/rove_says_justi.html#more

[Serial Mom]

3. Of course he's not happy

they got caught, otherwise he would have been fine with it!

Nuff said