Hardball - Was Alberto Gonzales Bad For The Country?

[bridgit]

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[Cha]

1. No, he was

freakin' good for the country just like you are, hardball..that's why he resigned cause he was so good.

[AX10]

2. Ripkin needs to be reminded of the millions of people...

who died to prevent tyranny from coming to our shores. Clearly, he has no understanding of history and the ramifications of allowing the powerful to be unchecked. No suprise he is a tool from Daddy Bush's Administration.

[bridgit]

4. imo that guy & people like him are seriously dangerous...

all this word-smithing, turn-it-all-on-it's-head, obfuscation stuff has to stop

[kirby]

6. He is David Rivkin

David Rivkin, attorney in private practice and former Justice Department official during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. Worked in the Office of the Vice President for Dan Quayle.

My summary: He thinks executive power is unlimited/absolute.

He has been on Diane Rehm show many times.

[rwheeler31]

3. Who is the dictator loving nut?

[provis99]

5. and Gonzales was the "least bad" of the Bush administration

Seriously. Compare him to Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Powell, Rice. He was their choir boy.

[Festivito]

7. Shameless transcript: Gonzo with white wordy man versus angry black man.

((I couldn't figure out what this right winger said? It seemed too quick and possibly too practiced.))

:::David Rifkin
attny doj Bush 41 admin
((i.e. rightwing hack, white, dressed in white.))

::Leo Terrell
Civil Rights attny
Radio Talk Show host
((loud, leaning forward, angry black man, dressed in black))

(((OVERVIEW)))
(LWer says Gonzo=bad. Act at Ashcroft bedside shows no respect for rule of law.)
(RWer says Gonzo=good. All a fight: Cong vs. Exec., partisanly, in wartime.)
(((ME: HUH? This was bipartisan. Put the word institutional out there.)))
(RWer: Gonzo's personality)
(ME: not even saying what role personality plays, just puts it out there.)


:Chris Matthews:
:Was alberto gonzales bad for America?

:LEFTWINGER:: ...
Tried to violate american civil liberties that argument about ashcroft when ashcroft relinquished authority and gonzo tried to get him to sign a document extending the wireless search
Chris,
that right there is the .. single .. most ..
Gonz tried to get him to sign
to demonstrate that this man
Did not understand the rule of law.
and this is not partisan
Republicans thought ash, excuse me, not ash, gonz was wrong.

:MODERATOR:Can you defend him?
:RIGHTWINGER::: Absolutely Chris ahmm
All the confrontations involving FISA/warrantless surveillance, the Patriot act, exec privilege, us attny firings are essentially Institutional confrontations
between congress and the executive in the middle of war on terror with some partisan tinge.
(((ME: Passive voice with big words that don't fit. Tinge! Yeah, rwers would ignore his lies, EXCEPT they didn't -- and didn't in this case.)))
They had very little to do with Gonzales' personality.
((ME: This could be read several ways.))
And with all due respect to Leo,
the example he mentions actually proves the reverse.
((ME: Getting the signature shows Gonzo loves rule of law. HUH? Didn't Gonzo say he went there to talk about something else?))
We have a nuanced debate among senior government officials
((ME: With drugged, sick man?))
--Incidentally Ashcroft was maligned and pilloried by the left as well.
((ME: Yes, but this is bipartisan.))
?OH?(undecipherable) were the precise parameters of the warrantless surveillance program.
To people like Leo and most of the Democrats the very idea of warrantless surveillance is anathema.
((ME: Warrantless, as in against the constitution that they all swore to uphold? UM, YEAH.))
Gonzales has done a good job
he served his country well
((ME: Finally, the expected dribble.))


((This guy is too much. Much too much.))

[King Coal]

8. Can you say "American Nazi"?