Posted on 04/16/2007 4:05:32 PM PDT by kellynla
In what could prove an embarrassing new setback for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to the White House to call for his resignation.
The two-page letter, written on stationery of the American Freedom Agenda, a recently formed body designed to promote conservative legal principles, is blunt. Addressed to both Bush and Gonzales, it goes well beyond the U.S. attorneys controversy and details other alleged failings by Gonzales. "Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances," it declares. "He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm." Alluding to ongoing scandal, it notes: "He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice."
The letter concludes by saying, "Attorney General Gonzales has proven an unsuitable steward of the law and should resign for the good of the country... The President should accept the resignation, and set a standard to which the wise and honest might repair in nominating a successor..." It is the first public demand by a group of conservatives for Gonzales' firing. Signatories to the letter include Bruce Fein, a former senior official in the Reagan Justice Department, who has worked frequently with current Administration and the Republican National Committee to promote Bush's court nominees; David Keene, chairman of the influential American Conservative Union, one of the nation's oldest and largest grassroots conservative groups; Richard Viguerie, a well-known G.O.P. direct mail expert and fundraiser; and Bob Barr, the former Republican Congressman from Georgia and free speech advocate, as well as John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, a conservative non-profit
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Run Fred Run!
Get rid of the inefectual Muppet! Weve wasted 6+ years from Justice. Get it right this time Mr. President, Sir. You may want to phone in the last two years but you should at least hire those willing to carry the conservative mantel....(...i know harsh...very bitter right now..apologies in advance..Im ok now.)
I’ll go along with this.
It’s bad policy to fire someone who is under fire by your enemies. But as long as it’s clear that he’s firing the bloody idiot because he’s an incompetent fool, then by all means fire him.
Gonzalez has never had a conservative constituency. It’s another instance of Bush confusing his personal friends and dinner guests with political allies.
Same disastrous misjudgment as Harriet Miers.
Info on the letter.
Here’s the summary of what every reasonable person should be thinking: The Bush administration has every right to decide whom to employ, but Gonzales is a dodgy, dishonest attorney general.
By whom to employ, I mean the fired prosecutors.
I’ve never really understood Bush’s nominating decisions. Yes-men don’t make for good policy.
YOUR FIRED' Now shut up and grow BALLS....
The thing loses all credibility right there. This ugly, hateful man has been trying to take down this Administration from the outse.
He will not be appearing tomorrow....re-scheduled until Thursday due to the shootings at VTech
Gonzales was counsel at the White House, a much more political position.
When Charles Colson worked for Richard Nixon he was known as the “hatchet man.”
Colson dealt with the enemies.
The President through the Attorney General can fire these people whether there’s political motives or not.
Gonzales had the power to get rid of the U.S. Attorneys, but his politcal position and closeness to the President are being dragged in by the critics.
Thanks
Yeah, but not for firing those attorneys...for not being a good enough attorney general.
What the time headline should actually read:
BUSH, CAPITUALTE TO THE LEFT, NOW !
The Dems art after anyone. If they get AG fired/resign they will keep going for more blood. Why do you think they are pushing the Primaries up to Feb ‘08? That means GWB’s term is over then. He will be virtually ineffective from then on. READ THE TEA LEAVES.
Bush has thrown enough red meat to the Liberal dogs...starve them down.... now!
Bull-loney.
SOME of their things I can agree with, but look at their overall agenda (they want to give legal rights, habeus corpus, to enemy combatants!. Look at their rhetoric towards George Bush as well:
http://www.americanfreedomagenda.org/
http://www.americanfreedomagenda.org/About/default.aspx
Restore habeas corpus for alleged alien enemy combatants, i.e., non-citizens who have allegedly participated in active hostilities against the United States, to protect the innocent;
Typical Time bias. Find so called conservatives to criticize Bush,
Typical Time bias. Find so called conservatives to criticize Bush,
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