So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little
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Alberto Gonzales
Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.
Imagine our surprise when The New York Times, in a recent editorial,
used the word that BuzzFlash has been calling Alberto Gonzales for
years: the Consigliere of the Bush Administration.
As we've noted before, Gonzales embodies the most fundamental
criteria for appointment to office in the Bush Administration: loyalty.
Forget competence or adherence to the rule of law, Gonzales is the
one who got Bush out of jury duty when he was governor of Texas.
Why was that important? Because it allowed Bush to avoid answering
a juror questionnaire that would have forced him to reveal his drunk
driving conviction and perhaps other illicit activity.
Yeah, Bush and Gonzales go back a long way, as do Bush and Karl Rove
and Bush and Harriet Miers (she of the short-lived Supreme Court nomination).
They all have years and years of doing dirty work for George –- and
that's what makes them such necessary street enforcers for Fredo.
Gonzales' office, which is after all allegedly our Department
of Justice, mobbed up the U.S. Attorneys to become partisan hit men
for the GOP. And the "revelation" was a pivotal symbolic
moment, because it involved so many of the key Bush dirty work specialists:
Gonzales, Miers, Rove, and more.
This time –- because of pressure from a Democratic Party controlled
Congress -- the White House was forced to do a document dump that left
Alberto standing with his lying fully exposed.
Like Bush, Gonzales claimed that he accepted responsibility, but also
swore he did nothing wrong and wouldn't leave office. It's
the Bushevik way.
Oh, Alberto, too bad you didn't value the Constitution and the
law more than your craven loyalty to an errant child of a political
crime family!
For that mortal sin, you are, once again, the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite
of the Week –- and a perjurer.
Until next week, remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites,
so little time.
Catch up with you soon.
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