From the Huffington Post
Dated Tuesday July 24
Can We Please Impeach Gonzales Now?
By Joseph Palermo
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's performance testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee was nothing more than a desperate attempt to cover up the gross improprieties of the Bush White House. The chronology of events that led to the firing of the eight United States Attorneys last December seems to have gone something like this:
Karl Rove produced a list of U.S. Attorneys to be canned for not being sufficiently partisan in the cases they chose to prosecute.
Gonzales signed off on the political purge without so much as a second thought because he knew that's what the White House wanted. Gonzales did not question the merits of Rove's list, or look at the performance evaluations, or even give courtesy calls to the targeted attorneys. Gonzales fired them in a pretty brutal manner, but what would you expect from a guy who argued in favor of torturing people?
. . . The House Judiciary Committee should immediately draw up articles of impeachment against Alberto Gonzales; we've listened to his lies long enough. Gonzales is the low hanging fruit for the Democrats. Gonzales should be impeached for lying to Congress and implementing Karl Rove's partisan project at the Justice Department. Only a full on Constitutional showdown this summer can begin to heal the wounds George Bush has inflicted on our republic.
Normally, I don't give a rat's ass about whether Gonzales is impeached or not. Impeach Bush and Cheney and the rest fall as a matter of course. However, as Mr. Palermo says, Gonzales is the low hanging fruit. Impeaching Gonzales may be the catalyst needed to get the necessary impeachments in motion.
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