Ummm . . . [cough] . . . I don’t quite know how to tell you this . . .
crosses “Merijeek’s neighborhood” off of my list of “Places to Move”
I started a new thread: “Never mind the firings – what did the other 85 USA’s do to keep their jobs?”
Recommendation: Withdraw troops from Iraq
Bush response: Send more troops to Iraq
Recommendation: AG should resign
AG response: Not on your life
Recommendation: President should fire AG
Bush response: I don’t want to and you can’t make me
I’m really feeling quite ill; the voices are telling me there is no hope left and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. My dog says the tunnel leads to the abyss and that there is no turning back. I think I will go back to smoking, drinking, and doing drugs; I really need an alternate reality.
If he doesn’t resign at the behest of GWB then things are even bleaker than they they appear.
I also would prefer to be sane and sober, but sometimes, you gotta pick one.
You think I’d be upset, however, since I just discovered that my seven month old is talking to perverts on the internet…I think I’ll just start clearing off a spot on the mantle for her inevitable Nobel Prize.
-Joe, cool dad
A next-day analysis of Gonzalez’ testimony.
Another, emphasizing that even leading conservative Pubs are turning on him.
Hmmm. Maybe we should recommend that he not jump off a bridge.
You got that a bit wrong. The government is 100% free of unauthorized corruption. It’s controlled by Rove or it doesn’t happen.
According to this Democratic Underground thread, subpoenas have been issued for Rove and Miers, it was reported on CSPAN-3 – but I can’t seem to find confirmation anywhere else. Does anybody know anything about this?
Now practically all of Congress is calling for Gonzalez’ resignation, but W still won’t budge.
Despite all this, Gonzalez still plans to attend tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Maybe that explains the hair.
No, never mind. Nothing explains the hair.
What do you think is happening now? I’ve read and it makes sense, that Bush can’t afford to have someone outside his circle as Attorney General but how far can he go defying his own party leadership?
He is the party leadership. Under the unitary executive mindset, Congress isn’t much more than an annoyance, and Bush will stonewall until he doesn’t have to anymore (i.e., after January 2009).
The fact is, the Congressional Republicans being ignored while calling for Gonzalez’s dismissal or resignation have only themselves to blame, as the rubber-stamp they’ve given every expansion on executive power that the White House has tried to push in the last six years is, at this point, going to be VERY hard to revoke. The do-nothing-ness they engaged in when they were in power emboldened, so to speak, this administration in its drive for complete control of the country.
I wonder, though, jayjay, whether this attitude from His Unitarianistity will backfire on The Decider. Nobody likes to be held in contempt, not even rubber stamps. With re-election looming in their headlights, wouldn’t some of them decide it’s in their own self-interest to swerve from The Course?
No, I’m saying that the rubberstamps they gave him BEFORE this whole thing blew up will come back to bite them. They’re actually starting to realize that Bush isn’t really all that into the whole “President and Congress both Republican and equal” thing…he’s more into the “I’m the Deciderer and you’ll give me what I want”. Which, given that previous to this what the Deciderer wanted was pretty much in the same current as what the Congressional Republicans wanted, they never really noticed. Now they’re realizing (belatedly) that Bush is a freaking ten-ton electoral concrete pier tied to their collective ankles and they gave all their jackhammers to him back when the honeymoon was still going.
This is interesting . . . The Office of Special Counsel is investigating the attorney firings, the missing e-mails, and Karl Rove’s activities in general. However, Special Counsel Scott Bloch, head of the OSC and a Bush appointee, is himself being investigated:
I wonder who’s gonna investigate the inspector general?
Well, it’s supposed to be the people, aided by the press, but the American media and electorate seems to have renounced that duty…