If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge.
Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch.
He had no trouble remembering complaints from his bosses and Republican lawmakers about federal prosecutors who were not playing ball with the Republican Party’s efforts to drum up election fraud charges against Democratic politicians and Democratic voters. But he had no idea whether any of the 93 United States attorneys working for him — let alone the ones he fired — were doing a good job prosecuting real crimes.
He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik. Mr. Gonzales failed to create the most rudimentary standards for judging the prosecutors’ work, except for political fealty. And when it came time to explain his inept decision making to the public, he gave a false account that was instantly and repeatedly contradicted by sworn testimony…
ap·pa·ra·tchik (ä’pÉ™-rä’chÄk)
n. pl. ap·pa·ra·tchiks or ap·pa·ra·tchi·ki (-chÄ-kÄ“)
- A member of a Communist apparat.
- An unquestioningly loyal subordinate, especially of a political leader or organization.
As for Gonzales, if he’s telling the truth, he’s grossly incompetent. If he’s not telling the truth, he’s a gross liar. A likely scenerio? He’s grossly incompetent and he’s a gross liar. Three choices. All bad. I can see why his department is run on party loyalty. It’s the only thing he’s got going for himself…
Someone else probably brought this thought up but I think Gonzales probably goes around his office and the white house saying don’t tell me anything because I don’t want to lie when I’m asked questions under oath. He is less careful when he is answers questions that are not under oath. He just seems so childish when he talks and when he responds to remarks he doesn’t like. He and Bush are perfect together.
Like I said before either they are lying and need to be removed or they are incompetent and need to be removed. I’m fine with lying and incompetent as long as they are REMOVED!