Posted on 08/28/2007 7:46:30 AM PDT by SmithL
"I HAVE LIVED the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days," outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales noted during a press conference Monday.
Credit Gonzales for leaving, not with a whimper, but with the knowledge that as rough as Washington gets, no one can take from him the accomplishment of, as the son of a Mexican-born construction worker, becoming America's first Latino attorney general. In his exit, Gonzales showed himself to be, as President Bush would say, "a good man."
But as this president tends to learn too late: You can be a good man, but not the right man for the job.
"It's sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," Bush said Monday. Actually, Gonzales did the damage to himself.
I wrote in March that Gonzales should resign, after he fudged explaining why the administration fired eight U.S. attorneys. Gonzales should have been honest and admitted that the administration discarded the U.S. attorneys for political reasons. Instead, he wrote in USA Today that he asked them to resign for "performance-related" reasons, and because they "simply lost my confidence."
By that standard, the credibility-impaired Gonzales should have walked then - not late in a year in which close to a dozen top Justice Department staffers resigned.
Or as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told reporters Monday, "It had to happen."
As the months dragged on, the best Republicans could say in Gonzales' defense was that the attorney general did not perjure himself when he testified before the Senate, but was misleading under cover of law.
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See Ya...now free the border agents.
Bush is a master at letting his administration be pummeled like pinatas.
Incapable of self-defense.
Kinda like the Administration (and ALL Dhimmocrats) want us citizens to be.
See all the respect it got HIM??
Bush is a master at appointing people who can be easily pummeled like pinatas.
If Bush would appoint people of integrity, it would be a lot more difficult for the Dims to find fault with their performance.
The new tone has done wonders for the republican party, and has brought forth a new era of political civility and cooperation.
Why should he have to. That's the President's prerogative, and he should have stood for it himself. It's rather seems like Bush just hung Gonzalez out to dry.
I can’t say I’m sorry to see him go even if it does give a win to the rats. Gonzales was too stupid to fend off an idiot rat attack and too cowardly to investigate and indict the rat media for treason.
Bye...
That wasn’t an actual quote was it?
Gonzales was a punching bag, alright. Bush set him up by inexplicably sending him to the Senate to testify about the perfectly legal firings of US Attorneys, and the Democrats fell all over themselves for the opportunity to punch Gonzales around for weeks and months on end.
With friends like Bush, Gonzales didn’t need enemies.
On the other hand, Gonzales stunk up the joint anyway.
Pee friggin yoo.
Those three(maybe 4) are GOOOOOOD...
Another Bush flunkie.
Wow. I believe, that if America survives in it’s current form, Bush will go down as one of the worst Presidents.
I do too!
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