So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

January 26, 2007 | SEND TO A FRIEND | GET EARLY NOTICE OF THE HOTW

Alberto Gonzales

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Sometimes you think Bush's Consigliere, Alberto Gonzales, is using feigned stupidity as a way to patronize Congress and the American people.

He does it in almost any public pronouncement, larding up his comments with lies and statements that defy any legal logic – which is a bit troubling since he is by title the Attorney General of the United States, AKA the nation's chief law enforcement officer.

That's why even "Snarlin" Arlen Specter was a bit flabbergasted to hear Gonzales declare at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting last week that the Constitution does not grant a right of habeas corpus to U.S. citizens.

"The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas,'' Gonzales told Specter, R-Pa., during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Jan. 17.

Nothing could be further from the truth, as Specter pointed out. Yet, in a specious statement that is both illogical and a brazen rewriting of the Constitution, Gonzales insisted – get this – "that the Constitution does not contain any express right of habeas corpus, only 'a prohibition against taking it away.'"

Gonzales's colleague in the Bush crime family, Supreme Court Justice Nino "The Fixer" Scalia, runs around the country declaring himself a "strict constructionist," who takes the Constitution literally.

When the Constitution says that you can’t take habeas corpus away, any "strict constructionist" would consider that an express right, except of course for the legal gopher for Godfather Cheney and his spiritual son, Fredo Bush Corleone.

It's both abominable arrogance and grand hypocrisy for the Attorney General of the United States to rewrite the Constitution – and for that Alberto "Consigliere" Gonzales is our BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Until next week, remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.