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Ear to the Ground

Republicans Waver on Gonzales

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Posted on Mar 26, 2007
Hagel
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Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said Sunday of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: “He does have a credibility problem.”

Three prominent Republican senators expressed their lack of confidence in Alberto Gonzales on Sunday. GOP support has dropped off since Justice Department documents released on Friday caught the attorney general misrepresenting when he first knew about a plan to fire eight U.S. attorneys.


New York Times:

Questions over Mr. Gonzales’s future intensified on both sides of the aisle this weekend, after the release of Justice Department documents late Friday that detailed plans for a meeting between Mr. Gonzales and his aides in which they discussed the dismissals last year, 10 days before most of them happened. Mr. Gonzales had previously said that he was “not involved in any discussions about what was going on” and that he had mostly followed the process from a distance.

Speaking on “Meet the Press” on NBC, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said he spoke with Mr. Gonzales on Saturday and told him “he was going to have to have an explanation as to why he said he wasn’t involved in discussions—that’s the key word—and now you have these e-mails which appear to contradict that.”

White House officials continued to defend Mr. Gonzales, saying the e-mail messages did not directly contradict anything he had said and noting that he had not disputed that at the end of the process he signed off on the final list of prosecutors to be dismissed. President Bush said in his Saturday radio address that he strongly supported Mr. Gonzales in the decision to oust the prosecutors, though he has said he believes that more explanation is necessary.

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By FrostedFlakes, March 29, 2007 at 12:25 pm #
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There should be only two possible outcomes. Either “Gonzo” resigns or he should be indicted. There is no way that the head police officer in the U.S., not to mention the world, can be a liar. Unacceptable!!! And he’s not even a very good liar. It seems as if him and Harriet Miers are just two unprincipled barristers that blindly follow the lead of their chosen despot. Under their watch our civil liberties have been trampled, the Constitution has been ignored, humane treatment of detainees (for lack of a better word) has been replaced with torture, and privacy is a thing of the past. This is a criminal enterprise and “Gonzo” is the consigliere.

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By Margaret Currey, March 26, 2007 at 5:12 pm #
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Bush picked Gonzales because he knew the man would do his bidding, he was not chosen for leadership because that would go against the Man Who is King, even if he is king for just 8 years, seems as though he leads like Congress is not an important part of Government.

I knew that the government went down the wrong path when the Justice Dept said Bush should be president, I wonder if they looked at all the wrong doing of Kathleen Harris, the purge of the polls in Fla. you can bet your bottom dollar was being done where there were more democrats.

The election machines were less in the more populated areas, and more where there were less people.  After all the people with the most cannot suffer.

I lived in the south, where in the pooper areas where more people took the bus there were less bus shelters than in the richer areas where there were less people taking the bus.  Seems as though the rich do not have to suffer as much, and why is that?

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

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By Quy Tran, March 26, 2007 at 1:08 pm #
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No more compromise to those who have spitted to the face of our justice.

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By Christopher Robin, March 26, 2007 at 12:46 pm #
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Why is Abu Gonzales still in office?

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By AMIGO, March 26, 2007 at 12:23 pm #
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LIST OF THE BEST OF THE “COMPASSIONATE” CONSERVATIVES - - - - 
The 43 senators who voted AGAINST raising the minimum wage:

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)

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