White House: Anti-Gonzales vote a stunt

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday called the Senate's upcoming no-confidence vote over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a "political stunt."

President Bush's support for his longtime ally and friend will not waver, said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.

...

"We would consider it another political stunt," Fratto said.

He also said Gonzales does not necessarily need Congress' support to continue serving.

"It's important for any public official to have as much confidence as he can garner and it will ebb and flow," Fratto said. "But it will not ebb and flow with this president and this attorney general."


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[rock]

1. And quite an effective one at that

n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. hey, when they do it, they support the troops and uphold

American family values and democracy.

When we do it, it is a stunt.

[pat_k]

29. Using a peashooter when you have a big gun is "effective"? (nt)

[tanyev]

2. Well, they should know.

[wake.up.america]

5. Either I'm nuts or the White House is a out to lunch.

[L. Coyote]

39. Setting the Lunch Table for Impeachment. Or, "POTUS, the Felons, Way, Way Worse ...

They should get up on Monday morning early, and have them both impeached by lunchtime, then have President Nancy Pelosi serve tea in the White House before dinner.

When is it time to set the table? When the People are hungry.
Juicy tidbits and rumblings this week are causing reasonable salivations, and like never before.

Let's consider Two Really, Really BIG BREAK-INS, and their comparison to the Watergate Break-In, just to see is setting the Monday lunch table seems warranted.

Break-in #1.) Republican operatives are given a contract (within the context of a bribe scheme to get the contract) to set up an IT network for Congress. They set it up so they subsequently intercept all the Democratic communications of the Committees investigating them, principally Leahy's Judiciary committee.

Break-in #2.) Bush illegally, and with advice in hand as to the illegality from his Attorney General and Acting Attorney General, goes ahead nonetheless with spying on a multitude of American citizens in the run-up to the 2004 election. Do I have to mention they are spying on "Democrats"? (At this point in the political timeline, I hope not.)

Now the comparison of the scenarios posited:

#1. The RNC hires a bozo crew of rogue CIA bunglers who get caught trying to place bugs in a one political office, DNC HQ.

OR

#2. The President of the USA and corrupt, bribe-paying operatives actually DO intercept ALL communications of all sorts of people investigating them and running against them just before the 2004 elections, including carrying out their scheme in the very Halls of Congress.

I call this menu, "POTUS, the Felons, Waaaa-aay Worse than Watergate, and Who Haven't They Bugged?"

For a reservation, e-mail the Speaker of the House. I'm betting even Honorable Speaker Pelosi is having a difficult time resisting the menu now.

It will be very interesting to see who's heads ends up on a platter next week.

[Theduckno2]

26. First thing I thought of too!

I am on dialup and I didn't even need to wait for the whole photo to appear on my screen!

The hypocrisy of the Bush Administration is just amazing.

[Triana]

27. Haaa! Youbetcha! bu$hit, Inc are the Posterchildren for Political Stunts

Ain't NOBODY better at POLITICAL STUNTS than bu$hit, Inc. It's a veritable Rove-O-Rama up there!

Hey POT! Meet KETTLE....Hmph.

Hypocrites.

[bemildred]

3. Too bad Congress cannot hold the vote on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

In flights suits, after all of them flying in, with big banners in the background, and stuff. THEN you would have a "political stunt".

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Perfect comment!

I wish someone in Congress would say that.

[AndyA]

7. Want an example of a political stunt?

Here's a few:

Bush's staged Teleconference with the Soldiers



Bushes dancing with a bunch of dark skinned people to prove their support of diversity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaORVHigg4o

Grief stricken at Mrs. King's funeral



And last but not least, the biggest stunt of them all:


You want to talk about political stunts? How about the pot calling the kettle black? The HO calling the cleaning lady cheap? If you're talking about political stunts, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WROTE THE BOOK.

[underpants]

8. The perfect reply

:applause:

[Skip Intro]

12. Another Example -

little hitler speaks about the strength of the economy, in front of a backdrop depicting "Made in the USA" boxes, while in reality surrounded by "Made in China" boxes.

[54anickel]

38. Let's not forget the plastic turkey...

[Tyler Durden]

9. At this point, who gives a FUCK what the White House thinks?

The Pig Bush has DESTROYED any cachet the White House had as an institution to be respected. It will take at least one and maybe two GOOD and HONORABLE administrations to cure that.

Fat chance.

[IntravenousDemilo]

10. The White House is in free-fall.

We're all waiting for the "splat!" It may seem to be taking a while, but when you're plummeting from such a great height, it takes a bit longer, even once you've hit terminal velocity.

Not even a net will save them at that speed, so be of good cheer, y'all. The longer it takes, the bigger the puddle will be.

[pat_k]

30. Steamrolling Congress is not "free fall" -- Only impeachment can. . .

. . .stop the bushcheney war on the Constitution.

[MrPrax]

11. Bush got that right...

Which vote should have been on the aircraft carrier? Last year's or this 'new' vote...?

Wonder which way they will vote again in the Fall, when they return from summer vacation and they've talked to their constituents. :eyes:

He also said Gonzales does not necessarily need Congress' support to continue serving.

Probably right...since he already had it.

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. They know that they are really finished if.......................

Alberto goes. No more protection from Justice.

[pat_k]

31. Good 'ol Teddy Olsen will obstruct justice just fine. Only impeachment. . .

. . .can leap frog obstruction of all those finger-wagging investigations.

[heliarc]

14. Finally! Democratic Political stunts! nt

[truthisfreedom]

15. Ebb and Flow? Euphemisms for late-night threesomes with Jeff Gannon?

I'm just sayin'.

[Zynx]

16. Impeachment test vote, imo.

[pat_k]

32. Hope you're right. . .

. . .but fear they actually think that the vote will accomplish something. Just as they think that "exposing" bush's crimes, in and of itself, is accomplishing something. I fear they remain blind to the reality that "exposure" without impeachment is meaningless to these thugs.

[uppityperson]

17. Pot Kettle. Gonzies confidence won't ebb and flow?

[rucky]

18. The stain on Alberto's underpants suggests differently. n/t

[Hieronymus]

19. David Gergen just said, on CNN, that Gonzo will go.

[bdamomma]

20. oh these people need to be removed ASAP

political stunt??? what jerks!!

[LiberalFighter]

21. Isn't this contradictory?

He also said Gonzales does not necessarily need Congress' support to continue serving.

"It's important for any public official to have as much confidence as he can garner and it will ebb and flow," Fratto said. "But it will not ebb and flow with this president and this attorney general."

Isn't that contradictory?

[lyonn]

24. That is a dumb comment, read it twice and decided

that it didn't matter since Gonzo is caught in a rip tide and heading out.

[LiberalFighter]

22. Hey what is with this spokesman Tony Fratto? -- Where is Tony Snow?

Fratto used to work for Santorum. Need I say more?

[badgervan]

23. Impeach

No more screwing around. There is more than enough evidence of unconstitutional behavior from this crew, from the top down. I am sick and tired of this selected president giving us the middle finger day after day. Enough. I thought Nixon was bad. bushie makes tricky dick look like a choirboy.

[IndianaGreen]

25. For once the White House is right, this is a bullshit PR stunt!

We don't have a parliamentary system in which a "no-confidence" vote would bring down a government. This is nothing but a bullshit PR stunt that says more about the Democrats' ineptitude and cowardice in the face of an open challenge to Congress and the Separation of Powers.

The Constitution is quite clear as to what to do about a lawless public official: IMPEACHMENT!

[ima_sinnic]

36. what you said, that I was about to say ... it's like a "nonbinding resolution"

who gives a f***--really!--about a "no-confidence" vote. big whoopti ding-dong!

[IndianaGreen]

41. This is like sending a memo to Hitler telling him he is a bad boy for invading Poland

I can see Pelosi and Reed passing a meaningless "no confidence" resolution on Richard Nixon for his Watergate crimes.

They must allow for impeachment of Gonzo and Cheney.

When it comes to the war, Democrats don't have to do a goddamned thing to end it. Do nothing, and let the money run out!

[pat_k]

28. The only thing that isn't an impotent gesture is to impeach bushcheney

Sure, if "no confidence" were the only action available to them, I'd be appauding. If all you have is a peashooter, you fight with a peashotoer. But they have a big gun. I'd take the impeachment of Gonzales -- at least that would remind them that they CAN impeach officials. But the only way to rescue the Constitution is to impeach Bush and Cheney. Screw the little fish. Take out the unitary executivecy. Fire and prosecute their co-conspirators and minions.

[IndianaGreen]

34. There is more than enough evidence to impeach and remove Gonzo and Cheney

Democrats should stop acting like the whimpy liberals in Germany that allowed the Nazis to run over them in the Reichstag.

[laylah]

33. Hello pot...

meet kettle! You stole OUR White House, you low life amoebas from hell. Talk about a "stunt:. F**k the lot of you.

[bamacrat]

35. This coming from the creators of political stunts.

I am really getting fed up with this administrations blatant double standards and retardism.

[Amonester]

42. Sigmund Freud observed and called them on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

-... "According to Sigmund Freud, projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else."

...

Don't tell these criminals they should read about what their "unconscious minds" shows to the entire world, but their ignorant bu$che-bot freepees...

[ima_sinnic]

37. like "rescuing" NO 4 days after Katrina wasn't a stunt?

never forget how food and aid were deliberately withheld until AFTER the smarmy little dick-head finally got around to "acting prezidenshul" by "giving a speech" after who knows how many had already drowned in their attics, starved to death, or otherwise suffered horribly for no good reason. THEN things "started to happen," as though he was "in charge."

and don't forget how the clueless dwarf (absolutely NO malice intended toward dwarfs! "mental dwarf" is understood!) posed with two looters ... er, "victims" ... wearing blindingly white sneakers and dragged an entourage around staging photo ops instead of actually supplying anybody with anything crucial like food and water.

the pathetic thing is that, yes, some voters are just too irretrievably STUPID not to have seen it: a LTTE of the Gainesville (Florida) Sun actually expressed relief that (paraphrasing) "finally a real leader took charge" and relief started happening -- some such unbelievably DUMB thing.

Hey Photo-Op "president"--I got yer political stunts right here, fuckwit! :grr:

[opihimoimoi]

40. Is that all they got??? A STUNT????They cannot come back with a better reply???

How Shallow of them GOP....

Who is on the Thinking Team who advises Bush?....Heckof ajob there dude

Better get them Prosacs ready

BTW...where is the progress on the War on Terror?

6 years already....haven't won shit....

Better we search now for a replacement Coach...this Bush guy ain't doing crap...

[Amonester]

43. The Decider guy ain't doing crap, that's so true.

He's too busy doing billions ("ours").

And no one is gonna hold him and his gang of thiefs accountable with 'no-confidence' votes...

That's for sure.

Now, where's the TABLE?