Schumer: "The White House Will Not Keep Him After Today." nt

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

[maddezmom]

1. does he know something or is it a dare?

:shrug:

[JTG of the PRB]

18. I'll believe it when I see it.

Chimpy doesn't have the balls to fire him, and Gonezo won't resign. Maybe, however, they'll convene at the White House later today so Shrub can give Seedy Gonzales the Presidential Medal of Honor for Complete and Utter Bullshit. The last time I checked, the Commander-in-Chimp LOVES doing that.

"Hecukva job, Fredo!"

[SammyWinstonJack]

34. No Chimpy won't fire him because NO ONE including Democrats especially Democrats, tell him what

too do. I wonder what revenge he's got cook up for Democrats and disloyal repugs, if there are any of those in this?

[LiberalFighter]

2. I bet Bonzo will still be there after today.

Bushwad will throw a tantrum if anyone suggests that he should go.

[Tempest]

3. When Coburn says it's time to go, GONEzales is toast

Oklahoma GOP Sen. Tom Coburn has asked for Alberto Gonzales to resign. At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Coburn said the firing of US attorneys "was handled incompetently," adding: "The best way to put this behind us is your resignation."

Coburn told Gonzales, "You set the standard, leadership management skills." And he said the Justice Department needs a clean slate.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/04/19/159584.aspx

[madokie]

4. if it came down so far as to dr.tom cobun saying that then let it be

What a d head and he's my senator

[IChing]

That was what surprised me most in the hearings

I didn't see that coming.

[freesqueeze]

5. How Does a Liar Fire a Liar for Lying???

Gonzales fits right in this White House.

Liars or incompetents...pick your poison.

[bmcatt]

6. I suspect Gonzo's not going anywhere

I know I'm swimming upstream on this one, but I think there's a very simple, three word reason that Bush wouldn't throw Gonzo under the bus: "Senate confirmation hearings".

Anyone who replaces Gonzo has to make it through the Senate and, this time, there's no way that the Judiciary Committee will give *ANYONE* a free ride. The potential brutalization of whoever comes through is probably one of Bush's worst nightmares.

So, as much as Bush might *want* to throw Gonzo overboard, I don't think he can.

[jmowreader]

11. We don't need no steenking Senate confirmation hearings!

Where the hell have YOU been since 2001? This fucknuts LOVES recess appointments.

If Gonzalez gets thrown under a bus, which looks extremely likely as of right now, Bush will recess-appoint Harriet Miers, or someone even worse. Imagine: Attorney General Ann Coulter. She'd do it, she's got a law license so she's as qualified as Alberto Gonzalez was, she loves Bush and hates Democrats, and she has nothing to lose. We're at the point in Bush's reign where any recess appointment he makes will be valid through the end of his term--there won't be another Congress seated before 2009.

[bmcatt]

14. Quick! Alert Reid's office!

I say that only half in jest.

On the one hand, I want to believe that even chucklenuts isn't *THAT* crazy.

On the other hand, though, I think that doing a recess appointment of a replacement AG would have *TREMENDOUS* backlash. It'd be an admission that there's no one who could make it through the confirmation process.

[jmowreader]

39. That's not why he'd do it

I'm not up on conservative prosecutors, but I feel confident that there are many conservative prosecutors who are honest and capable of performing the duties of Attorney General of the United States.

Really. I know this because it is true. He'd probably have to get the attorney general of Utah, but there are competent Republican prosecutors.

And if Bush were to appoint a competent Republican prosecutor, he'd be confirmed.

Bush doesn't think this way. He'd pick the worst excuse for a prosecutor known to man--or, worse, he'd pick someone who'd never been one, but who had great fealty to the administration--and recess-appoint him/her as a big Fuck You to Congress. Because he knows he's untouchable. He knows we'd have to flip about 20 Republicans in the Senate to have a chance of getting rid of him.

Bush's problem is that Congress is pissed already; recess-appointing a nightmare prosecutor just might flip those 20 Republicans.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Nah, Shrub in his next opportunity to speak will say, "You're doing a heck of a job, Gonzo!" nt

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Mebbe so, but before we do the happy dance...

.. what we're about to see is a kind of plea bargaining.

As embarrassing as incompetence is, it's better than criminality. Rather than being confronted as criminal behavior, Gonzo's supposed ignorance and feigned memory issues are going to be written off as basic incompetence ("Thank heavens the system works!"). The fickle public will lose interest in the case and move on to Obama's swim trunks or Edwards' haircut, and we'll never get to the bottom of the unrepentant arrogance, the obstruction and corruption that lie behind the firing of the U.S. attorneys and a general administration pattern of hubris, intimidation, and lawlessness.

Gee, I hope I'm wrong. But I doubt it.

[babylonsister]

9. Throwing down the gauntlet? I'm not so sure... nt

[saltpoint]

10. The Attorney General's staunch GOP defenders appear to have had

their tongues gotten by a big kittycat.

I don't hear many Republicans rallying behind Alberto.

It's mighty quiet on the red side.

[laylah]

36. with the exception, of course,

of that WHORE, Hatch :mad: What an unpatriotic, American Constitution hating, DICK!

Jenn

[saltpoint]

38. Well, yeah, there's Hatch. But even Tom Coburn called for Gonzales'

resignation.

I don't think it's lookin' real good for the Attorney General. I expect his lying hindend will lead the Friday news dump.

[Leopolds Ghost]

41. Hatch doth protest too much. He wants Gonzales' job -- that's the only reason

he's defending him. To look magnanimous.

[peacetalksforall]

12. I'm actually feeling sorry him - to not know that he shouldn't become

involved with George Bush. To not know better - to not know that he can't justify torture, make up law, break the law, and destroy our Constitution. He says doesn't remember. I say I feel sorry because HE DOESN"T KNOW BETTER - HE HAS NO ETHICS.

[WinkyDink]

24. He knows WAY better. He just likes $$$ above all.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Nope. Gonzo won't quit and the psycho won't fire him because they want to call the Dem's bluff...

they MUST IMPEACH...NOW!

[MoonRiver]

15. CNN pundit said WH was in "shock" over how terrible his testimony was!

:rofl: Don't let the door hit ya, Gonzo!

[IChing]

16. Schumer said: "It wasn't a knockout blow today but he

staggered 20 steps back"

[AnnInLa]

17. gwb loves pissing contests....

it makes him feel manly. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if he does his stubborn routine (I am king, and you're not the boss of me), and keep gonzo on.

However, in several of the blogs today, I have seen the opinion that the WH will ask for resignation (or get him to voluntarily resign), and hope that the country will give a collective "whew, glad that's over." Then the Dems will be expected to claim their scalp, and not pursue the REAL reason for the AG purge. Never forget, it's not gonzo that's most important here, it's the conspiracy to 1. fire prosecutors who were prosecuting republic congress critters, 2. intimidate prosecutors into prosecuting non-existent voter fraud, to intimidate minority voters, and 3. to place loyal bushies in key areas for the 2008 presidential election.

[RufusTFirefly]

19. Yes. And because he's a sociopath...

... he possesses no inner ethical breaking mechanism. Unfortunately, this is often misinterpreted as "principle" or "resolve."

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. The Dems better NOT drop the investigation if he goes! Their plan is still in place!

Their RW operatives are still out there doing there thing.

[FVZA_Colonel]

32. You're absolutely right.

At this point, this AG's largely irrelevant, they don't need him to do what they plan to do. The Dems can't let this go.

[Straight Shooter]

21. That's it, in a nutshell. bush likes nothing better than to engage in pissing contests. n/t

[DKRC]

25. Absolutely!

Stay on track, Gonzo's just the shiny object of the moment.

[Gelliebeans]

30. Too true about the pissing contest eh?

[formercia]

22. Gonzo knows all the dirt

He's been Junior's lackey and partner-in-crime for a long time.

Oh, to be a maggot in his brain......what wonderous tidbits to be had.

[rhiannon55]

23. Eeewwwwwwww!!!

What an image!

[formercia]

27. It's where maggots learn

how to become flies on the wall.

[rhiannon55]

28. LOL! You are funny, formercia!

:rofl:

[formercia]

29. It beats crying.

:rofl:

[spanone]

26. MSNBC is reporting WH is happy with our lying AG's testimony.

These people couldn't give a shit what America thinks.

[bdamomma]

33. no they don't care at all, when Schumer said step down for

Americans or the US, he just thumbed his nose. No, this is over by a long shot, I am angry, this damn regime has had no oversight for 6 years and is happily going along the merry murderous ways, is this enough now. These thugs are not finished but we aren't either.

[roamer65]

31. Gonzo knows where the bodies are buried, folks.

[Gloria]

35. Schumer may be wrong if what I heard today on Hardball is right....

The former Asst AG from the Clinton Admin had to agree with the

Repuke advocate...that there was nothing illegal done in all this.....

This was on Hardball.

Tweety figures Bush wants Gonzo around to take the heat off Bush and everything else going on.....

So, in the real world, he would be toast.... but in Bushco world, he's probably still useful....

[Chichiri]

37. There's a good chance he'll be fired tomorrow.

Business day is over today, and tomorrow is Friday, which mean the firing would be in the Saturday papers, which nobody reads. Taken out with the trash.

[radfringe]

40. heehee -- guess it's a case of GMTA? sneak peek at tomorrow's toon

Side Note: I did up this toon around 6 a.m. this morning... before I saw this thread