Comments on: Will Gonzales Fall For Attorney Firings?

Sources: AG's Ouster Is Inevitable; Fired Attorney Blames Partisan Politics

[micma-2009]

sob1313

They offered their resignations as is customary when a new President takes office. It also happened under Bush 1, and Reagan and even Bush 2 when he took office. However, these 8 were Bush apointees who he fire in one day and in the middle of his term. Do you have any other lies you'd like to parot? Or is that where the talking points leave you hanging?

[meb955]

The most partisan thing of all is CBS's "news" coverage of this event.

Why is CBS always in the hate Bush cheering section?

No wonder you people are in the gutter for ratings and bleeding viewers.
Posted by ikez78 at 10:18 PM : Mar 17, 2007


so the head-in-the-sand denying goes on, i read. nice strawman here -- there is no story except for the work of the "hate bush cheering section."

of course, that actually includes every other network news service (including FOX news), since all are covering this story. even ratings leaders NBC and ABC have continuing coverage, along with most major newspapers and radio sources.

also of course, if you ever admitted this is a legitimate news story, you would also have to face the fact that there might really be a problem illustrated by this story. and you and sob1313 apparently can't face that, can you?

[sob1313]

Fact #1 - Clinton Had Reno fire them all.
Fact #2 - That is a RIGHT given to the president.
Fact #3 - Most, if fired, are fired when their tenure comes up. Not all at one time.
SO, check your facts again lefty

[micma-2009]

sob1313

Nice long post. I looked and couldn't find anything factual in it. Congratulations on that.

[sob1313]

Are you kidding me. Clinton fires EVERY single one. An act unprecedented, and nothing. But bush fires 8, and the claws come out. You people are so blind!!! Can't you see the double-standard? I'm not totally in-love with the republican party. But the dems are sooooooooooooooooooooooo Far left it leaves me no choice. I am an independent thinker, and realize that most people are not. People are naturally lazy, and rarely form their own opinion. They go with whats "popular", or whatever "sounds good". This being the only reason someone would make a big deal over the firings by the Bush Admin. as opposed to the Clintons. It's Popular, and it sounds good. So please.......Get your OWN mind

[frankly6]

ikez78

They've got you as a viewer. So thanks for supporting CBS. Come back and support them often. That is when you are not listening to Limbaugh.

[ikez78]

The most partisan thing of all is CBS's "news" coverage of this event.

Why is CBS always in the hate Bush cheering section?

No wonder you people are in the gutter for ratings and bleeding viewers.

[frankly6]

Everything that this administration says has turned out to be a pack of lies. It's like they live in some alternate reality.

Icreasingly they're having a difficult time keeping track of all of their lies and keeping their stories straight. No wonder they consider loyalty to the President to be the most important quality in hiring and firing people.

Bush and Co. need to create a new cabinet possition. They could call him/her the Secretary Of Lies. His/her qualifications would be absolute and total loyalty to Bush over all else. His/her job would be to keep up with and to keep straight all the lies that they turn out at the White House on a daily basis. This would be a huge help in making sure that they all got their lies straight.

[johnkick]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Bush and his cronies seem to be following the tenets of the Church of Satan. Nothing could be more antithetical to Christ's teaching than the destruction of the poor. Yet, with the tax cuts to the rich and sending the poor off to die in a war based on lies, which causes a greater Civil War and holocaust of killing, I think Bush has outdone himself.

[homespunlady]

kaysaa1 at 554 PM had a good idea and I agree for a different reason.
kaysaa1 wants Bush to fire the rest of the Attys to drive home he has the "right" to do so. I agree he should fire them because after this new MESS, I'm left wondering if the 8 that were fired were canned for NOT "playing politics" and bending if not breaking the rules of American law then - did the rest "play the game" and do something tht should be considered a disgrace on their position in order to KEEP their jobs?
It looks like we both can agree. Fire the rest...

[naber1961]

"Hazy memories" defense did not work for Scotter Libby, why should it for these people? Karl Rove should be tried and Gonzalez fired, and most of all Bush impeached. He is the worst president in US history!!!

[memba-2009]

The Democrats and the media are making a big deal out of nothing. What a waste of time! MOVE ON!

[frankly6]

It's been getting increasingly difficult to tell if the Bush administration is telling the truth from day to day. Today they say one thing tomorrow they claim "hazy" memory and say something contradictory.

However, I've found a fullproof method to detect whether they are lying or not. If there lips are moving they are lying. Try it. It works.

[gkc99]

By THE NEW YORK TIMES. WASHINGTON, March 17 - D. Kyle Sampson, the Justice Department official who resigned this week after bipartisan criticism of the firing of several federal prosecutors, said he bore no more responsibility than several others in..

YOU BETCHA!

impeach Bushit / Cheney NOW!

[scott4261]

bm6005,

ALL are Republican and ALL were Bush appointees in 2001.

[bm6005]

I can't imagine treating my boss that way and keeping my job.
e_rowe

I can't imagine you holding a job!!

[bm6005]

So the story goes that these federally employed attorneys were told by their superiors to provide them with information about their work. Out of loyalty to the democratic party, they refused to give their superiors that information because it was incriminating to members of that party.
e_rowe

Most, if not all, of the attorneys are Republican, MORON!!

[scott4261]

Just like RandalDS is, I'm sure, I get exasperated trying to correct the lies repeated over and over by you Bush water-bearers. I don't know if a constant stream of Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Rielly and FOX News is constantly going for you people, but it's time to start looking at the facts (and there are plenty here, contrary to what you choose to acknowledge).

Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, had this to say about prosecutors who were not looking for serious crimes, but targeting individuals for partisan reasons:

"It is in this realm - in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group or unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views..."

Sounds familiar, huh? Those words were delivered 65 years ago and they are still true today. What we are dealing with here are common criminals. Pure and simple.

[tucano2]

Mexican illegal alien drug smuggler gets shot in the butt escaping back over the USA/Mexico border Bush wants to erase. Drug smuggler tells his Mom who calls wife of another US Border Patrol who tips off her stooge husband who calls Mexican Consulate which calls Rove who gets clearance from Bush and orders Gonzales to hammer these two American Border Patrol Officers because they have upset the Mexicans - Gonzales orders Sutton to do whatever is necessary to hammer the two USA Border Patrol Officers and get the Mexican Consulate and the Mexican Drug Lords off Bushs case. Gonzales follows orders from Bush/Rove to dump any District Attorney who dares to prosecute either Drug Lords or Illegal Aliens. All sound familier? Sound like the history of Compion and Ramos and others? Sound crooked? Sound like selling out the USA? Sound traitorous? Sound like just what Bush/Rove/Gonzales/Sutton might do? Did, in fact, do?........Duh, Yeah, you betcha

[scott4261]

The Bush apologists here keep repeating the same broken record, "But BILL CLINTON fired all 93 U. S. Attorneys when he took office and Bush only fired eight!" Not only is the part of the sentence about Bush not correct (he fired all the U.S. Attorneys when he took office, too), but here's the truth:

All eight of these U.S. Attorneys are Bush appointees. All are Republican. George W. Bush appointed all new prosecutors upon assuming office, just like Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan.... This happens with each new president. The difference here is that Alberto Gonzales replaced these prosecutors with interim appointments which do not have to go through confirmation in the U.S. Senate. This is due to a hidden provision in the USA PATRIOT Act. But the reason U.S. Attorneys have Senate confirmation in the first place is that it is an expression of confidence in their character and to insure that they would be free from partisan service.

This is an effort to replace these prosecutors with Rovian hacks who will skirt the law and the ethical boundaries to the detriment of our civil liberties. Don't believe me? In 2004, Tim Griffin, the appointee who is replacing Bud Cummins in Arkansas ran a campaign to suppress voter turnouts in communities likely to vote Democratic. These were called "caging lists." But he sent the lists to GeorgeWBush.org, instead of the real one, GeorgeWBush.com. The result was exposure of this folly on the BBC.