Palast: "Gonzales is getting Libby'd" (taking the fall for Rove & Bush)

[StefanX]

We’ve been here before. Gonzales is getting Libby’d. Takes the bullet for Karl Rove and the White House. If you wondered why the Republican jackals like the sinister Senator Specter piled on Gonzales — it’s because they were told to.

These guys learned from Richard Nixon. In 1973, when Nixon was getting hammered over Watergate, he threw the Senate Committee his Attorney General, a schmuck named Richard Kleindienst. Famously, Nixon’s own Rove, a devious creep named John Erlichman, told Nixon to leave the Attorney General “twisting slowly in the wind.”

Rove and Bush are doing the Nixon Twist on Gonzales.

via Digby:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/job-description-lighting-rod-by-digby.html

But fortunately, one of the fired US Attorneys (Iglesias) was smart enough to take the fight directly to Rove:

Iglesias said that on April 3, he filed a Hatch Act complaint with the OSC, charging that Karl Rove and others may have violated the law by firing him over his failure to initiate partisan-motivated prosecutions.

via Americablog:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/david-iglesias-filed-complaint-that.html

Pass the popcorn! And remember, if US Attorneys "serve at the pleasure of the President", then only the President can fire them. Which means Bush did it. Bush is guilty of electoral fraud. He fired attorneys in order to swing election results. It's that simple. And it's an impeachable offense.

[aquart]

1. "twisting slowly, slowly in the wind."

It's the second slowly that made it immortal.

[StefanX]

2. Kick

for impeachment!

[bemildred]

3. Seemed clear to me Gonzo was falling on his sword.

You gotta wonder what he was promised.

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Gonzo may not be the brightest man in the world but..

NOBODY can forget that much, so soon. His "my hard job makes me forget" didn't work...it only sounded lame. There's no explanation, unless he was protecting someone, and that someone has to be Rove. What was (one of) the stated reasons some of the USA's were fired? If you answered "failing to aggressively prosecute voter fraud" you get a gold star.

Gonzo was simultaneously trying to protect himself and his job, AND protect Rove. He couldn't do both. His "I don't recalls" made him sound clueless and incompetent, but he didn't give Rove up. THAT's why Shrub was happy with his testimony. He did what was expected of him.