Doolittle switches blame for raid to Dems

[maddezmom]

Source: Sac Bee

Justice Department staffers 'doing what they want to do.'


Last Updated 12:12 am PDT Saturday, May 19, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A3

WASHINGTON -- A week ago, Rep. John Doolittle suggested the FBI raided his Virginia home so that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would appear tough on Republicans as he faced congressional grilling over alleged partisan motives in firing eight federal prosecutors.

In a telephone press conference Friday, Doolittle said he still believes the April 13 search of his Oakton, Va., home -- and its disclosure -- were about rehabilitating the reputation of President Bush's attorney general. Yet he said it wasn't the Republicans trying to help Gonzales -- it was the Democrats.

He blamed Democratic staffers in the Justice Department for going after him in a politically driven "Republican culture of corruption" campaign.

And he said it would be wrong to conclude from his earlier statements that he thought Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Gonzales or any other Republican was behind a plot to pump up Gonzales.

"I never believed it was any of those people," he said. "I really believe that what's going on at the Justice Department is that you've got an embattled attorney general. I don't believe they are basically in control of their own department. I think that you've pretty much got a situation where the inmates are running the institution."



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[drm604]

1. You're link doesn't work. n/t

[maddezmom]

2. thanks, fixed it

:hi:

[ninkasi]

3. What an idiot!

Yeah, right, we Dems are able to direct the activities of the Justice Department, which has, of course, been strictly neutral. :sarcasm: I mean, it's not as though the Bush administration has had a policy of ramming through appointments to Republic cronies, or anything like that.

These people are absolutely pathetic. I'm waiting for the day when some of them blame their parents for bringing them into this world as part of some left-wing scheme to make them look like the morons they are.

:rofl:

Is utter cluelessness and the IQ of a turnip one of the requisites of being a Republic politician? Can they really be this stupid, or are they setting up the defense of diminished capacity?

[rodeodance]

4. "the inmates are running the institution."---my gawd!!--calling them inmates!

[tanyev]

5. Next week-these guys:

[David__77]

6. This guy is ridiculous.

He's been around forever, I wonder if his days are numbered...

[gratuitous]

7. Looks like the cheese fell off his cracker

See ya, Mr. Doolittle.

[Garbo 2004]

8. So now the Dems are trying to help Gonzales, is that what you're saying, John?

We eagerly await your next "clarification" of your public remarks. First it's the Repubs, then it's the Dems.

Flop sweat, John?

[tandot]

9. Another Republican moral value: If you get caught just blame the Democrats

That criminal scumbag is representing my district. I can't believe we have so many ignorant idiots living here who voted for that weasel.