{"id":1161,"date":"2007-04-19T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T04:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/19\/1161\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T04:15:12","slug":"1161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/19\/1161\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gonzales v. Gonzales<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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…<\/div>\n
ap·pa·ra·tchik<\/strong>   (ä’p\u00c9\u2122-rä’ch\u00c4\u00adk) 
n.  pl.<\/em> ap·pa·ra·tchiks<\/strong> or ap·pa·ra·tchi·ki<\/strong> (-ch\u00c4\u00ad-k\u00c4\u201c) <\/p>\n
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    1. A member of a Communist apparat.<\/li>\n
    2. An unquestioningly loyal subordinate, especially of a political leader or organization.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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      This New York Times editorial is scathing. They say, "Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch" and I agree with that. Over and above the partisan firing of the Attorneys, over and beyond his evasive and probably untrue answers, he came across as an unengaged, inept, lightweight. [and with only a little substitution, the same sentence could be applied to Bush. Mr. Bush<\/font><\/strong> came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important countries<\/font><\/strong> in the world<\/font><\/strong>.<\/em>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

      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<\/u> 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Gonzales v. Gonzales 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}