Conservatives to Bush-FIRE GONZALES-He Has Presided Over "UNPRECEDENTED CRIPPLING OF CONSTITUTION"

[kpete]

Conservatives to Bush: Fire Gonzales


Ar 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 Letter: "An Unsuitable Steward of the Law"

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 GOP direct mail expert and fundraiser, 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-forit active in fighting for what it calls religious freedoms.

more at:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1610738,00.html

[Kagemusha]

1. They disagree with Bush on the wielding of power so their views don't matter.

Time mentions it but I imagine that this won't be embarassing at all. These people will be dead to Bush. They will no longer exist. Those who create reality will move on and create other reality.

[waiting for hope]

2. This was a keeper -

"The President should accept the resignation, and set a standard to which the wise and honest might repair in nominating a successor, who will keep the law, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion."

Like they haven't turned a blind eye over the last six year. Sounds pretty damning but it makes you wonder, what else is under this shit pile?

[aquart]

5. What shit pile? They don't see no steenkeen shit pile.

Or smell it either.

[waiting for hope]

10. That's true -

but in the end, it always leaves a smear.....

[aquart]

3. Aww, they're pretending it was Abu and not George.

[blm]

7. That's exactly my view - they're scared to tell George that HE's the one overseeing

the dismantling of the constitution.

[Poiuyt]

4. True conservatives don't like what the Bush Adm. has done

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. I think the only one left now is John Dean, since Goldwater is dead.

When Goldwater died, my daughter said "You mean not all conservatives are bad?" and I explained that he was in favor of balancing the federal budget, and was in favor of gays in the military and privacy rights, unlike the neo-cons. Even though he was racist.

[DCKit]

19. But these are obviously not true conservatives: Several of them make their $$$ keeping

the Repukes in power or running the elections. They don't want the party to fall and probably care nothing at all about the current administration. Bushco has betrayed the Repuke cash machine.

[Mandate My Ass]

6. That's what he was hired to do. Call for the impeachment of Bush & Cheney

Then we might have a chance to undo some of the damage.

[drm604]

8. Looks like Gonzo is going to be the fall guy on this.

They're scapegoating him for carrying out their plans.

[Robbien]

9. Gonzales is only one small part. How about all the partisan staffers

who fill Gonzales office. The inexperienced barely passing bar exam staffers who put the RNC above everything else. These are the people who really need to go along with Gonzo.

[IDemo]

11. Gonzo hasn't presided, the Presiderer has

[grasswire]

12. looks like we all had the same gut reaction

But the buck doesn't stop with Gonzo.

[catmandu57]

13. I wonder if he'll tell them to go cheney themselves?

After all he is the deciderererer. Poor delusioned spoiled ass frat boy, being brought to heel by his minions.

[Adsos Letter]

14. fire Gonzales

Fine, let him get sacked/resign...BUT keep his butt in front of those senators, answering questions, until we get as much truth as we can from him. Who knows...if Bush throws him under the bus, maybe then Gonzales will find some motivation to be more...forthcoming...shall we say; especially if some form of immunity is offered. It would be worth it to expose as much of the nature of the duplicity and criminal actions as possible.
Heck, if Gonzales, Goodling, and Sampson could be made to see the real nature of their "fall-guy" status, they might REALLY blow the lid off of things.

One can only hope...and that, fervently.

[newyawker99]

18. Hi adsosletter!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jus_the_facts]

15. The tragedy in VA will over shadow all other news...especially this....

....almost makes me want to wonder if it was like a MK ULTRA event. :tinfoilhat:

[Bandit]

16. partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice."

Ya think?????????