BUSH ANNOYED BY GONZO-GATE...interrupts his spring break

[radfringe]

“This issue was mishandled to the point that you’re asking me about it now in Mexico,” Mr. Bush said.


Bush Defends Gonzales in Firing of Prosecutors
By DAVID STOUT and CHRISTINE HAUSER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/washington/14cnd-attorneys.html?hp
WASHINGTON, March 14 2007 NY TIMES

President Bush defended Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today amid the furor over the firing of federal prosecutors, but he said he was troubled over the clumsy handling of the dismissals.

“I do have confidence in Attorney General Al Gonzales,” Mr. Bush said of his old friend from Texas. But he said the dismissals had been bungled, “and frankly I’m not happy about it.”

Mr. Bush, speaking at a news conference in Mérida, Mexico, with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, said that he was pleased that Mr. Gonzales had acknowledged mistakes surrounding the dismissals, but that “Al’s got work to do up on the Hill,” a reference to the Capitol, where many Democrats and several Republicans have expressed anger and dismay over the firings.

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But the president’s anger was clear. “This issue was mishandled to the point that you’re asking me about it now in Mexico,” Mr. Bush said.

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With Mr. Bush traveling in Mexico, the White House insisted that the president’s role had been minimal and laid the blame primarily on Harriet E. Miers, who was White House counsel when the prosecutors lost their jobs and who stepped down in January.

“The White House did not play a specific role in the list of the seven U.S. attorneys,” said Dan Bartlett, Mr. Bush’s counselor, referring to a Justice Department roster of those to be dismissed. But he said the White House, through Ms. Miers’s office, ultimately “signed off on the list.”

[bdamomma]

1. what a arrogant SOB he is.

[Faux pas]

2. Heaven forbid! Maybe he should just stay there. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

3. "It's not MY fault. Smirk, smirk, smirk." - Commander AWOL

"Bill Clinton's penis made me go AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard, it made me sit reading 'My Pet Goat" on 9/11 after I had been told twice that the USA was under attack, it made me ignore the plight of the Gulf Coast people during Hurricane Katrina, and it made me purge prosecuters who would not Assume the Position for me. So go ask Bill Clinton's penis why all this brouhaha now..."

- Commander AWOL


"Bill Clinton's penis made me screw up." - Commander AWOL

[radfringe]

5. it's HARRIET's FAULT!!!!

[johnlal]

16. Bush on the Miers nomination.

"I picked the best person I could find. People are going to be amazed at her strength of character and her intellect. But the tone will be set by the people who conduct the hearings and give the speeches and run the television ads. When it's all said and done, the American people are going to know what I know, though: This woman deserves to be on the bench, and she'll be credit -- and she'll bring credit to the bench and to the law."

Now, she's the goat for his blundered political firings.

[louis-t]

4. No, the dismissals went as planned...

the cover-up was bungled. Asshole.

[saltpoint]

6. And today's questions won't be the last ones asked, Mr. President.

Better take a few notes.

[Diane R]

7. He's just mad that they didn't cover up well enough. And that he was asked a question on vacation.

[shadowknows69]

8. Mishandled=The truth got out

for those of you don't speak republikan.

[Ian David]

9. Gonzo-Gate and The Pearl Harbor Day Massacre. n/t

[IWantAChange]

10. How dare anyone break the Chimps train of thought.......

hmmmmmmm, burritos - tacos - margaritas - DOH! reality - must think must think - DENY- DENY - hmmmmmmmm burritos - tacos - margaritas.

[Eurobabe]

11. Gonzo-Gate, LMAO!! n/t

[radfringe]

12. trip is suppose to end today

so tomorrow he'll be taking a nap

friday - sunday will be used to catch him up on the talking points, and rehearsal for some sort of statement

my money is on a bush press conference for Tuesday 3/20, he'll say "Al is doing a FABULOUS job". Rumors of "AL's" pending resignation will float around through Friday news dump with the blatherhead sunday shows speculating, spinning etc.

By Monday morning (3/26) we'll find out Gonzalas handed in his resignation over the weekend.

[solara]

13. How DARE you intrude upon the King's pleasure with such

irrelevancies.. Be gone!




INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT INCARCERATE :patriot:

[Matariki]

14. Sadly, his idea of bungled was that the media wasn't controlled enough to not report it.

Or they haven't spinned it away.

[radfringe]

15. lest we get confused

Good Gonzo


Bad Gonzo

[niyad]

17. hey, decider--you don't GET time off, no matter WHERE you are--you have the job, it's YOUR

responsibility (of course "the buck stops here" is a concept you absolutely fail to "get")

that, of course, explains his ignorning the PDB of 6Aug2001. how DARE we bother him on vacation?

[emulatorloo]

18. Did he speak any of his crazy "Spanglish" in that fake Texas accent of his?

Por-Kay estas askin' me pre-goon-tahs sobre EL Senor Grand-day Gonzales?


It make my head hurt.