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Thursday, April 19, 2007

A "disaster" for Gonzales

From Think Progress comes word that uber-conservative Tom Coburn of Oklahoma called for Gonzales to resign during the hearing:
COBURN: Mr. Attorney General, it’s my considered opinion that the exact same standards should be applied to you in how this was handled. It was handled incompetently, the communication was atrocious. It was inconsistent. It’s generous to say that there was misstatements, that’s a generous statement. And I believe you ought to suffer the consequences that these others have suffered, and I believe the best way to put this behind us is your resignation.
Ouch.

And from Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall writes that even NRO can see how bad it is for Gonzales.
NRO's Byron York: "It has been a disastrous morning for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales..."

It's really true. Quite apart from the substance of what we've learned since mid-January and Gonzales' past false statements, Gonzales has been surprisingly unable even to keep his made-up stories straight. As near as I can tell, only two Republican members of the committee have been even remotely sympathetic to his testimony. At least two Republican senators called him a liar. One gently -- Graham, and another not so gently, Specter.
It's been said a lot of different times and a lot of different ways, but when people who believe that government is unimportant and that it should be hobbled achieve power, having things become a shambles is hardly a surprising result. From the Pentagon to FEMA to the FDA to the Justice Department, this administration has proved it is dangerously incompetent.

Of course, Gonzales is just a cog, as Marshall points out.

Red Rover, Red Rover, send Karl on over...

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