Breaking: Alberto Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General
The New York Times is reporting that the U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will announce his resignation later this morning:
Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for his resignation, submitted his to President Bush by telephone on Friday, [a senior administration official] said. His decision was not immediately announced, the official added, until after the president invited him and his wife to lunch at his ranch near here.
Mr. Bush has not yet chosen a replacement but will not leave the position open long, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Attorney General's resignation had not yet been made public.
And:
The official said that the decision was Mr. Gonzales's and that the president accepted it grudgingly. At the same time, the official acknowledged that the turmoil over his tenure as Attorney General had made continuing difficult.
More as the story develops today.
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This is one appointment that should never have been made. Gonzales was the first of George Bush's crony appointments. He was never remotely qualified for the position. The latest U.S. Attorneys' firing "scandal" only highlighted his political maladroitness. When he should have been defending the firings as perfectly within the president's Constitutional authority, he instead apologized for the manner in which it was done thereby muddying the waters. He rang the Democrat sharks' dinner bell when he did that. This was an Attorney General who on a variety of issues was unable to make a Constitutional argument even when it was obvious. And to think, George Bush appointed him to the Texas Supreme Court and was grooming him for the U.S. Supreme Court! One staggers under the realization that instead of Roberts and Alito we could have been saddled with Gonzales and Miers on the Court. Who says there's no God?
Yo Ish- roberts and alito are right wing-nut idealogues who are no less detrimental in terms of jurisprudence than aunt harriet or fredo would have been. The Court is no longer about stare decisis or Constitutional Law its about make-believe and doing what the vatican, the bushistas and corporate flacks dictate. (see Mussolini)
Without Justice there is no Almighty.
artliq- yu may have just proved that there is no god. The neo-con clearasil set and justice are oxymoronic and this whiny crony of our alfred e. neuman vice president was comical and who knows if santa anna had won at the alamo, this stooge may have been the alcalde.
What you meant to say was, "Without God there is no justice." Right?
man created god. ishmael if yu believers are so pious in your religious hallucination why arent yu nicer? we seculars have more of a moral compass. isnt that ironic? oh thats right the party of reegin cant grasp irony; they forgot(no pun)
I am nice. You just think I'm not because you can't abide anyone who disagrees with you. Why aren't you tolerant?
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