Maybe Gonzales shouldn't go just quite yet - He's destroying what's left of the WH's credibility

[ck4829]

A top Senate Republican Sunday said U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee was "damaging" to the administration.

Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was asked whether Gonzales aides should be "celebrating" because Specter did not join Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., in urging Gonzales to resign during Gonzales' appearance before the committee last week.

"I don't think they should be celebrating that, because the attorney general's testimony was very, very damaging to his own credibility," Specter said. "It has been damaging to the administration, because without answers as to what really happened, there is a lot of speculation. And the charges are being made that the Department of Justice was the political arm of the White House."

Gonzales is at the center of a controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Critics of the Bush administration have suggested that the prosecutors were fired for partisan political reasons, but Gonzales has insisted repeatedly that nothing improper occurred in the dismissals.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21276372.shtml

[saltpoint]

1. Congressional Democrats are chipping away at the administration's

defenses.

Gonzales has to go, the sooner the better, because he has contaminated the waters we all drink. The offices these people occupy belong to the people, not to individual Bush appointees. They have abused their privilege of service, turning it to partisan and personal advantage.

If Josh Bolten has any brains left at all, he will prevail upon the president to force the Attorney General to step down.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. But what harm if he stays?

A totally ineffective AG, what damage is he likely to do in the next two years? VS what damage could an effective winger AG do?

What's the danger?

[saltpoint]

7. He himself is the danger, as he serves still as the president's personal

political counsel and not the people's chief law enforcement officer.

That's the danger.

[Robbien]

9. All the GOPers are still there

Haven't you read the memo dump, they are still doing exactly what they have been doing before they were caught.

They haven't stopped. They are continuing to use governmental departments to promote the RNC.

They don't believe they are doing anything wrong.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Promoting the RNC? How's that working for them?

They still own the Senate, or so it seems, because we can never get 60 votes to do good stuff. Like force negotiation for drug prices. Other than that, the Repubs don't seem to win a bunch of elections.

[liberal N proud]

2. But with him gone, the regime will be that much more exposed

Additionally, any replacement must pass through a Democratic controlled congress.

[dennis4868]

3. UMMMM....

The WH has any credibility left?

[NewJeffCT]

4. I hope he twists in the wind as more & more revelations come out

over the coming weeks and months.

[Robbien]

10. How do you expect to prosecute anyone?

Who are you going to get to do it? Huh? Alberto Gonzales? How about one of the many bushies?

Alberto has to go and his bushie staffers cleared out of there.

[Bravo Zulu]

6. What’s up with Buchanan, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of PA.

Mary Beth Buchanan, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the former director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, which helps put together teams that review U.S. attorneys.

Her name was mentioned among others last weekend by D. Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as having been consulted when Justice Department officials were drawing up the list of eight prosecutors across the country to be fired.

Ms. Buchanan would not comment for this story.


http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07113/780217-176.stm

[Solly Mack]

8. Exactly when did Bush's WH have any credibility?

They never - ever - had any crediblity to lose.