His long-delayed resignation is great news for civil liberties and other good things. But the rumor that Bush may name Chernoff sends chills up and down my spine! Another loser and Bush brown nose, loyal to Bush but not to our people's welfare.

Rumor has it wolfie is looking for a job.........

This 'resignation under pressure' is just window dressing, something to make it appear that democracy and justice exist in USA's national politics.

Gonzalez, Rove, Bush and Cheney are just lackies for the ruling elite, same is true of Hilary & Obama - and about 95% of the others.

American business as usual is war and state driven terrorism as usual. Exploit the poor. Kill, maim, and torture those who refuse to get out of the way of the "great" American empire. Thanks to the ruling elite, and the complacency and ignorance of the people, the USA's #1 export is horror.

What a horrible nation! One would hope that a nation run by a bunch of apes would do better!

Adios! Your exit was not so speedy, Gonzales.

"Mr. Bush has not yet chosen a replacement but will not leave the position open long"

Good news -- this poor 'vctim' of capitol hill is finally gone. The next question is "Can Bush make another of his famous recess appointments here?"

UNFAIR TREATMENT????!!!! What's unfair is that he's not serving a life sentence!

Rove, Gonzales, and if we get lucky, Cheney will be next.

This gotta be a grain of salt and damage control type thang. W gotta let go of some real heavy duty dead weight on the dawg before he gets that fake gay marriage in the White House to the Terminator to fake out the gays, a solid constituency for progressives overal, into thinking he's pro gay. With Bar saying price is no object and Pat Robertson coming in as the "lovely flower girl." The Constitution, remember, has no ban on foreign born individuals being the First Lady.

Voya con Diablo Gonzales,
I no can recall~a~a~lays… :)

And Soon - The Cheese Stands Alone

The system works.

Hopefully Harry will step up to the plate and quickly convene an emergency senate to stop any possible recess appointments for his replacement.

Before we all sing "ding-dong, the witch is dead" too loud let us remember what has not been terminated.

The torture gulag around the world and increasingly being expanded in the US.

The dismissed US attorney's and the political stooges that are their successors (speecially in Arkansas!).

The "speeding up" of death penalty appeals and the continual gutting of legal resources avai8lable to those who need competemnt legal counsel to facilitate such appeals.

It wasn't that long ago so many of us rejoiced to see the end John "cover up them thar nude statues of the spirit of justice in my press briefing gallary" Ashcroft. Little did we suspect! I wonder what sort of replacement is waiting in the wings from central casting to be foisted off on America this time.

Good riddance 'berto--may you have more honest and uncorrupt prosecution for your many crimes than you provided to others for their's.

"As recently as Sunday afternoon, Mr. Gonzales was denying through his press spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse, that he intended to leave.

Mr. Roehrkasse said Sunday afternoon that he had telephoned Mr. Gonzales about the reports circulating in Washington that a resignation was imminent, "and he said it wasn't true, so I don't know what more I can say." (NYT)

How about "mendacious to the very end"?

Yeah, but ding dong the witch IS dead; let's enjoy what we can while we can.......

sure he resigned.
but:
1. he wont serve prison time.
2. he will get another cushy job in industry or academia.
3. another nutter will take his place.
4. the legal torture system he helmed still is there.

just trying to find the cloud in this silver lining.

it would be nice, though, if--for once--there was some legal justice to be meted out here. something to show progress away from this administration.

"No", but there IS 12/17/05 proof, Self-Admission and DEFIANT CONTINUATION of YOUR WRONGS, Bush! IMPEACHMENT, NOW!! SWITCH TO KUCINICH!!!

You all are such idiots.

All we have here is a game of musical chairs. Nothing will change until Bush and Cheney are removed from office.

Gonzales is just a puppet doing his masters wishes. And his office is just a stage. And you will be presented a new puppet on that stage shortly... no different than Gonzales.

Until the root of evil is removed from our governement (dems and republicans) thinkgs will change but not get any better. You will only get different faces playing the same games.

Wildlander, Yes, we know that . . . but there is still a sense of satisfaction in having him resign under pressure. Little solace, but still something.

Can't wait to watch the Democrats cave at the next confirmation hearing.

Must see TV.

I can't help but wonder, why now? Why not stick it out til the end? Can Bush leave the spot open until he can use a recess appointment?

The good news is Gonzo is gone! The bad news is Chertoff is in the candidacy for Gonzo's job!

musical chairs, thats exactly right. the resignations are timely, smoke and mirrors, rumsfeld, gonzales. no diferent than nixon using dean and mitchell as fall guys to keep it away from the whitehouse. its really meaningless.

This is why liberals get the asses handed to them every 2-4 years. Here you all are "celebrating" the resignation of a man who should be in prison for life. As if it is some kind of victory. Allowing the man to resign is the Dim's way of letting him walk away from the crime scene without asking him any questions. Kind of like what happened after 9-11 when the entire bin Laden family was escorted by private jet out of the country while the civilian air fleet was still grounded.

Wildlander and Poet have stated what is happening more clearly than the rest here. do not waste time celebrating this news announcement as it is only being done to avoid both impeachment and jail time. Instead let's talk about restoring justice for the American people.

//laughs bitterly at abbywood

Yeah. I'm sure the Dems have been tougher on Florida Democrats than they will be in any confirmation hearing.

I wouldn't call this celebrating. But everyone on this board has been around the block more than once. We know the score. Gonzo won't suffer one iota for all his crimes.

RE: G'S MORE LUCRATIVE JOB OFFER

Poet August 27th, 2007 9:16 am
"remember what has not been terminated....The torture gulag around the world and increasingly being expanded in the US"...

...which brings us to Gonzales' next job...

With one more year of Bush and no impeachment hearings started, it seems to me that there is something else going on.

If Bush tries to blow something up with another "Terrorist action" like 911 then we will know he has his hands in the pot with the rest, stealing from the tax payers. The biggest pot of gold is our tax dollars, maybe in the world. He has had the "blank check" once and he, I'm sure, wants it again. Public citizen No. 1 has had the wool over "our" eyes too long. The lady liberty would be a public act of terrorism while the trade towers was an act of treason. Money was made and transaction receipts and haliburtons records were lost in 911. Bushco would not make a useless bang to show its a terrorist strike, like a real terrorist would do for publicity. Remember the first strike against the trade towers, the FBI donated the bomb to the "bombers". People might have had family and friends in the towers, but nothing would hurt the country and its spirit like the Statue of Liberty or another iconic representation of the American way.

If you want to argue, just bring along one picture from any source of the plane that hit the pentagon. As part of the department of defense they should have a picture of the damn thing coming in showing the whites of the terrorist pilots eyes, but they don't. And it didn't hurt a blade of that fine lawn outside.

Our president and our fine bipartisan system that we have is performing a slow act of treason against the people. We have to be prepared. We have to be able to keep the records public. We are not sheep!

Well, you might be!

RE: BUSH TAKE ON GONZALES PERJURY - 'SO PROVE IT'

Bush: "'There's no proof of wrong.'"

TRANSLATION: 'You ain't got nothing on us, coppers.'

According to Senior Bush Administration officials the now Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff, will get the nod to be the new A.G. I do believe he has dual American/Israeli citizenship and is either a rabbi or a rabbi wannabe. Obviously he has no problem with AIPAC.

The story is on Drudge.

This is the same guy who loves the U.S. Patriot Act, everyone being forced to take immunizations whether they want them or not, thinks everyone being chipped with RFID's is a great idea, agrees that we're not torturing anyone unless they have a "near death" experience, thinks rendition for torture is hunky dory and on and on.

Yes, watching Leahy, Biden, Feinstein, Feingold and the rest of the Democratic gang question Chertoff should be quite a show. Too bad they can't all be injected with truth serum and a conscience before the proceedings begin.

Just a Commondreamer.

abbybwood,

Thanks for the update. It indeed is frightening news. I am with you and the other posters here... something rotten is happening behind the scenes. I would not trust any of these guys any further than I could throw them (which is not very far)!

Wildlander I agree with you. Infact let me take it one step further. IMO the repugs are trying to jettison any and all deadweight and refresh them with 'fresh' faces among other things. And blame everything else on Bush himself-as to distance themselves from him. That way they have less to drag them down by the time the '08 elections start. And hopefully not take so much of a wacking afterwards. And dont forget they own the 'liberal' mass media to push their case.

And as you said the head guy may be gone. But the crap he set up is stillin operation. And he's getting off scott-free (probally to avoid any more legal fights).

Inshort while it's good that Gonzo's gone look who they want to replace him (and I don't think Chertoff will get it unless its a recess appointment. He's too damn toxic and the dems will have to put up some sort of fight if nothing else to keep their PO'd base froom just 'sitting down' on election day). I think it's another example of the repugs playing chess while the dems are playing checkers.

RE: DISTRACTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT

"'The unfair treatment that [Gonzales has] been on the receiving end of has been a distraction for the department,' the official said."

TRANSLATION: Gonzales is beseiged by requests from right wing dictators for state of the art interrogation methods.

Gonzales wants to spend some quality time with his family, I am told.

On a different note:

GONE are Rumsfeld, Rove, and Gonzales,

but

HERE TO STAY are the Patriot Act, the abolition of habeas corpus, the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the secret detention centers, the Guantanamo concentration camp, the practices of torture and rendition, the Congress sanctioned eavesdropping on the citizenry, the practice of signing statement, imperialism, the taunting of Iran, the intimidation and bullying of the world by 730 US military bases, the Project for the American Century, et cetera.

RE: BUSH ACCEPTS GONZALES RESIGNATION "GRUDGINGLY"

An official said "the president accepted [Mr. Gonzales' decision] grudgingly"...

...but admitted it would be "wicked pisser fun for Gonzales in his new 'hands on' job as freelance interrogation advisor."

There is one other possibility all of us are overlooking. Bush is letting these guys resign so that they do not go down with the Titanic when Bush gives the "ok" to bomb Iran. Because Bush's poll ratings are so low, he probably figures that he has nothing to lose. Bush and Cheney have legally insulated themselves from prosecution, so they are taking care of their minions before the final act.

I should add that Bush and Cheney have legally insulated themselves from prosecution with the help of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their ilk.

Even though Albarto Ganzales' resignation is good news, bad news is likely to follow this. According to a report Chertoff,DIRECTOR OF THE HOMELAND SECURITY, is the likely successor of Ganzales. Chertoff is linked with the US transnational companies in Colombia paying money to Colombian paramilitary to murder workers' union leaders and the union workers, who opposed the exploitative and oppressive activities of these transnational companies.

SO BE PREPARED TO WELCOME ANOTHER MURDERER AS THE US ATTORNEY GENERAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is like the AbuGarab (sic) prison torture thing - a few lower level drones are "sacrificed", while the more powerful ones continue with their dark and sinister plots.

I sure hope the insane bastards don't bomb Iran!

Just remember, the cesspool that is Washington DC is filled with bottom feeders of all political persuasions, who happily protect each other as they gobble up the leavings.

The only thing that will save us is to get someone who will see that a good septic pumper is hired to empty the cesspool and starve the bottom feeders. That does not appear to be happening. The handful that have not jumped into the pool and headed for the bottom are standing on the edge of the pool, beating on their chests, saying "Look what we're doing!" and bailing with a teacup.

The politicians in Washington DC, and in most states, are like rats in a grain bin. What they can't eat, they piss and crap on, to spoil it for anyone else.

Time for a big change, folks.

Good choice of pictures; smug mugged thug.

Can you say President Rudy Guliani? Who will pardon Gonzales, Bush, Rove, Libby and anyone of the numerous officials, elected and appointed, who have committed high crimes and treason.

The top 3 positions at justice are now empty. Is it any wonder we have no justice for the American people anymore?

Dim's need to come up with some ideas to sell in the next election. If they try to run one more time as the "opposing anything and all things Republican" they will lose again if they are not careful. This is why there will most likely be a President Guliani - The Dim's seem hell bent on electing another Clinton - only this one is not Bill. Good luck with that.

an ill wind is blowing

Perhaps we would have been better off impeaching Gonzales and having him to "kick around" a while longer?

They have to put someone equally or more corrupt in his place -- too many crimes they have to keep covered up.

But -- I think it's clear now why Ashcroft resigned . . .
we couldn't stand him, but he couldn't stand them!!!!

The next confirmation hearings might be really interesting.
We can expect the Dems to show plenty of backbone, ask a lot of exceptionally tough questions and then vote a resounding NO to the nominee...IF Bush appoints Ralph Nader.

Gonzalez, like Turd Blossom before him, seems to be just going away-- not going away mad.

I won't miss his evilly smiling face-- the face of a pimp, and the soft and smarmy manner to match.

But just watching this Rogue's Gallery stroll offstage one by one isn't cause for celebration. They remain self-satisfied and seemingly vindicated. And they can return to testify before various congressional committees standing on their heads-- or not.

So I don't much feel like cheering.

"I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days." — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
draw your own conclusions.

And now Gonzales as received unfair treatment. Christ on a bloody pony.

I have consulted with about 1,000 of my close friends and they are in the process of consulting with a few thousand of their own friends and we are willing to accept the resignations of George Bush Jr., Richard Cheney, and the rest of the administration IMMEDIATELY. Thank you.