...politically difficult for these GOP senators to defend Bush and this record of negligence and incompetence.
Don't forget the outright criminal actions. Using the Justice Department as your personal enforcement agency to go after your political enemies is still an impeachable offense. Then lying about it in front of Congress can put people in jail.
Posted by Mary at March 14, 2007 08:25 AMEven AIPAC's Queen, Hillary Clinton is calling on Abu to resign:
"I'm deeply disturbed by what we have learned thus far," Clinton said, "and I join those who are calling for a full and thorough investigation to try to get to the bottom of these very political decisions that interfere with prosecutorial responsibility by U.S. attorneys, and I think that the attorney general should resign."
Gasp!
Posted by Christopher at March 14, 2007 08:35 AMGonzales is pictured on a photo at HUffPo this morning and---he's actually shorter than Shrub!
What is the Spanish diminuitive for Shrub?
Posted by suds at March 14, 2007 08:40 AMNevermind. It's something else altogether. Like "weed".
Posted by suds at March 14, 2007 08:41 AMAbu is such a Bush loyalist that he had 4 inches of shin surgically removed so Little Boots would appear to tower over him!
What a guy!
Posted by Christopher at March 14, 2007 09:06 AMI think there'll be a guy affixing some new gold leaf lettering to the door of the AG's office suite fairly shortly.
Posted by snark at March 14, 2007 09:37 AMThe question is, Steve, will the Dems. COLLECTIVELY find their backbone (which has rarely been seen except perhaps on Social Security) and push COLLECTIVELY together on this? There's always a nice band of leaders that voice their concern and back up their words with action (Feingold), but the rest of them tend to kinda wallow around in Beltway politics to see if they should actually do what they ought to (and clearly what the public supports and wants them to do as well).
In short, I'm fucking tired of these spineless Democrats. They have the subpoena power. They have the Committee majority. Kick the Blue Dog Dems. and the rest of the lackadaisical "moderates" in the balls and move forward with what is right. Keep this outrageous Executive branch in check, dammit!
Posted by MisterOpus1 at March 14, 2007 09:58 AMMisterOpus1, DITTO!
Posted by Judith at March 14, 2007 11:46 AMDitto Judith's Ditto.
However, firing Abu does not undo what outrageous things have been done...at the biding of the shrub. Abu's boss should be fired, then he can take all his buddies with him to Dubai. Bye bye!
Posted by sara swati at March 14, 2007 04:26 PM