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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (760280)	3/14/2007 5:26:58 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

All to give a couple 'o cronies and political hacks (like that Rove aide in Arkansas... who actually has NO EXPERIENCE as a criminal attny!) a prestigious line on their resumes before this sad sack bunch limps off into the sunset....

To: pompsander who wrote (760280)	3/14/2007 5:52:27 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

it's much to do about nothing, just hatred by the drive by media

To: pompsander who wrote (760280)	3/14/2007 7:02:51 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Republican Says Gonzales Should Be Fired By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 14, 2007 Filed at 5:16 p.m. ET nytimes.com WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire on Wednesday became the first Republican in Congress to call for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' dismissal, hours after President Bush expressed confidence in his embattled Cabinet officer. ''I think the president should replace him,'' Sununu said in an interview with The Associated Press. Gonzales has been fending off Democratic calls for his firing in the wake of disclosures surrounding the ousters of eight U.S. attorneys. Bush, at a news conference in Mexico, told reporters when asked about the controversy: ''Mistakes were made. And I'm frankly not happy about them.'' But the president expressed confidence in Gonzales, a longtime friend, and defended the firings. ''What Al did and what the Justice Department did was appropriate,'' he said. What was ''mishandled,'' Bush said, was the Justice Department's release of some but not all details of how the firings were carried out. Sununu said the firings, together with a report last Friday by the Justice Department's inspector general criticizing the administration's use of secret national security letters to obtain personal records in terrorism probes, shattered his confidence in Gonzales. ''We need to have a strong, credible attorney general that has the confidence of Congress and the American people,'' said Sununu, who faces a tough re-election campaign next year. ''Alberto Gonzales can't fill that role.'' ''I think the attorney general should be fired,'' Sununu said. For days, Republican have issued only lukewarm statements of support for Gonzales after some of the fired prosecutors complained at hearings last week that lawmakers tried to influence political corruption investigations. Several dismissed prosecutors also said there had been Justice Department attempts to intimidate them. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., predicted Wednesday that Gonzales would lose his job. ''I think he is gone. I don't think he'll last long,'' Reid said in an interview with Nevada reporters. Asked how long, Reid responded: ''Days.'' Copyright 2007 The Associated Press