The morning papers will be all Blacksburg/VT. Gonzales should resign

[saltpoint]

while all the media hoopla is directed toward the VT campus and the sad events there.

Part of this is wishful thinking, as I can't stand Gonzales, but honestly, I don't think he can withstand the kind of questions Leahy and Schumer et al are more than ready to ask him later this week, and the Republican side of the aisle is mighty silent.

While the media's lights, camera and action are all zeroed in on Blacksburg, Abu Gonzales should slip out the back door.

Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. would be a good time.

[waiting for hope]

1. Naw...

They are going to shine the bright lights on the little turd. I'm thinking there is way more to this whole "Gonzalesgate" than what's being said. Leahy's referencing the missing emails to the infamous 18 minute gap from the Nixon tapes clinched it for me, that and my Republican Dad refuses to talk politics with me at the moment...not even to throw in a stab at that "awful liberal Pelosi" (I still can't get him to tell me exactly "why" he dislikes her so) - we lived outside of DC in NOVA during the Watergate years and I've just got this feeling.

On Edit: :hi: Old Crusoe!

[saltpoint]

3. I'd do my level best to get along with your dad, but if he crosses me

on Nancy Pelosi, there's gonna be trouble.

I think she's doing a terrific job putting lil' Dubya in his place.

I'll take your version of events. I think you're right -- that there are other tales to tell behind the dark curtains -- and I hope the hearings bring those tales to the public eye.

And no doubt Gonzales would have been one of the people -- especially as the president's personal counsel -- to know a thing or two about the backstage operation of the Bush White House.

On edit: hiya right back, waiting for hope! :hi:

[waiting for hope]

5. He just burns me on Pelosi -

Hey, he'd said he'd vote for Edwards (frankly, he isn't impressed with any of the right's offerings except maybe Rudy...but the flippity floppity thing is holding his reserve) but when pressed, he can't give me one example of why he can't stand Pelosi..my only reason for this is that my Dad is old school, still believes that it's a woman's place to take care of husband, hearth and home. While it maybe okay for some woman to succeed, Speaker of the House is not his idea of success. BTW, I just absolutely LOVE her - she's kicking some serious Bush butt.

[saltpoint]

8. Yes! Well, tell your dad Nancy Pelosi comes from an old school Baltimore

family that just happens to be strongly Democratic.

And she is tending to the hearth -- it's just a lot LARGER hearth than the usual one-house model!

Awfully good to cross paths with you again, waiting for hope. I'm countin' the days til we cast those first primary votes next winter.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. That would involve Gonzales having a modicum of common sense or dignity.

Yet, because he lacks those characteristics, he might just do that. Now, that's a conundrum. MKJ

[saltpoint]

4. Yes. Conundrums Are Us has come to be the Gonzales' legal motto.

Perhaps he's a more clever man than I expect, but my sense is he's only effective when he works behind the scenes.

Once he's being broiled alive in the bright public light of these hearings, I don't think he has the stamina to withstand questions by our Dem Committee members.

It could be a wild week up on Capitol Hill.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Time The Avenger

I'll bet Gonzo wishes his testimony was last week or last month...seems like every day another revalation comes out that puts another stake in him. We still don't have all the emails and surely even more embarassing info will be within...Gonzo's probably shreading and trying to bury whatever bodies he can while he can.

The VT tragedy deserves most of the coverage its been getting and the story is far from clear. I suspect the next couple days will be intense coverage of both the investigation(s) into what happened and the grieving of the families. While I wish for Gonzo to be publicly humiliated and made to perjur himself...I can wait til Thursday for that to happen. Who know what other USA tidbit could leak out during the media's attention on the VT story.

[saltpoint]

9. True -- more revelations could find their way into the Committee's hands.

Or even the media's hands.

The wall of silence from the Republican minority is an indication, I think, that more is known behind the scenes than has been reported by Paula Zahn and Cokie Roberts.

There are too many people with key information for his to survive this.

[Kingshakabobo]

7. He should take Bush with him.......shhh, I won't tell. n/t

[KoKo]

10. pssst......

it's Virginia not Vermont....

It's amazing the lack of Repugs supporting Gonzo. Yet, who would replace him and get past the Dem Senate? Anyone getting confirmed would be charged with cleaning up the DOJ and getting the investigations against Bush moving forward.

They are between a rock and a hard place whether Gonzo goes or stays...while we wait and our Constitution is trashed with whatever more evil doing is going on as they shred documents and cover their trail. :-(

[saltpoint]

12. With VT I was going for Virginia Tech, which Hokies call it. Their campus

email address is all [e-mail].

True about Abu Gonzales. I want him out, yet the longer he stays the more we may learn about what ELSE has been going on.

And as usual, my suspicions are running pretty high that he told his bosses in the White House what he was up to.

[yurbud]

11. that is the Rove move, sort of the opposite of the recess appointment

the firing under cover of tragedy.

[saltpoint]

13. I like your way of putting it. I'm eager to see if Gonzales runs off

or if he tries to match wits with Leahy, Schumer et al.

If he hangs in there, my money's still on Leahy Schumer et al!

[yurbud]

14. I didn't see any wits the first time, just the standard evasions. He seems like a third string boot

lick.

[saltpoint]

15. Works for me. "A third string boot lick." And the cowboy whose boots

he's been licking so long ain't even a real cowboy.