It's so reassuring that Bush gets pissed of by things done "for political reasons."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20459457/

Gonzales sent a letter to President Bush on Friday stating his intention to step down, a senior official told NBC News, but the president did not accept it and instead invited Gonzales to his Texas ranch to talk about it.

That meeting did not change Gonzales' decision, a source said, and Bush on Monday said that he “reluctantly accepted his resignation.”

“His good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons,” Bush added in a brief statement to reporters.

The 52-year-old Bush loyalist was at the center of a political firestorm over the firings of eight federal prosecutors. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20459457/

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/15/roves-role-in-purge/

Breaking: New E-Mails Show Rove, Gonzales Had Deeper Role In U.S. Attorney Firings

Posted by Think Progress March 15, 2007

ABC News reports that new emails reveal that the plan for firing U.S. Attorneys originated in the White House. Both Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys in early January 2005. From the article:

New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House adviser Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than previously acknowledged by the White House.

The e-mails also show Attorney General Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing the attorneys en masse while he was still White House counsel — weeks before he was confirmed as attorney general.

The e-mails directly contradict White House assertions that the notion originated with recently departed White House counsel Harriet Miers and was her idea alone.

Gonzales: Did He Help Bush Keep His DUI Quiet?

By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek

Jan. 31 issue - Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners. But Gonzales's most surprising answer may have come on a different subject: his role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an Austin strip club in 1996. The judge and other lawyers in the case last week disputed a written account of the matter provided by Gonzales to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It's a complete misrepresentation," said David Wahlberg, lawyer for the dancer, about Gonzales's account.

Bush's summons to serve as a juror in the drunken-driving case was, in retrospect, a fateful moment in his political career: by getting excused from jury duty he was able to avoid questions that would have required him to disclose his own 1976 arrest and conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in Kennebunkport, Maine—an incident that didn't become public until the closing days of the 2000 campaign. (Bush, who had publicly declared his willingness to serve, had left blank on his jury questionnaire whether he had ever been "accused" in a criminal case.) Asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy to describe "in detail" the only court appearance he ever made on behalf of Bush, Gonzales—who was then chief counsel to the Texas governor—wrote that he had accompanied Bush the day he went to court "prepared to serve on a jury." While there, Gonzales wrote, he "observed" the defense lawyer make a motion to strike Bush from the jury panel "to which the prosecutor did not object." Asked by the judge whether he had "any views on this," Gonzales recalled, he said he did not.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6857224/site/newsweek/

[AndyA]

1. Well, if anyone on Earth knows about doing things for political reasons, it's Bush.

He lives, breathes, and sh!ts political motivation.

Again, the hypocrisy is crushing. Bush can politicize a department that absolutely should never be politicized, he can go on record as stating one of his intentions in office is to overturn Supreme Court decisions, and that's all OK.

I don't know what planet he lives on in that foggy little mind of his, but it sure isn't Planet Reality.

NEXT TO GO: Cheney. Then Bush.

[Webster Green]

2. Opposite world really sucks

Fuck off chimpy!

[BOSSHOG]

3. Hey Amerigo, great to have you at DU, you must be 600 years old

Yeah, rove's been trying to get that message out for almost that long. Only democrats do things for political reasons. No doubt:

- bush deserted his military unit on moral grounds
- he snorted coke for medicinal reasons
- he lied us into a war for "christians" reasons (victims would be predominantly non-white, non-christian)
- he drove drunk cause he could
- he traded Sammy Sosa cause he's an idiot

But he has never, ever done anything for political reasons. God bless george and his incredibly ignorant but totally loyal sluts.