Conservative rats abandoning the S.S. Abu Gonzales.....

[marmar]

From ThinkProgress:


Conservatives Refuse To Appear On Fox News To Publicly Defend Gonzales

On Fox News Sunday this morning, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) refused to defend Attorney General Alberto Gonzales against accusations that he may have perjured himself before Congress. “It’s very damaging…we badly need an attorney general who is above any question,” said Gingrich. He continued:

Both the president and country are better served if the attorney general is a figure of competence. Sadly, the current attorney general is not seen as any of those things. I think it’s a liability for the president. More importantly, it’s a liability for the United States of America.

Later in the show, host Chris Wallace revealed that no conservative would willingly defend Gonzales on Fox. “By the way, we invited White House officials and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend Attorney General Gonzales,” said Wallace. “We had no takers.” Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/29/no-takes-gonzo/


The efforts of right-wingers to distance themselves from Gonzales have reached a fever pitch in the wake of his disastrous Senate testimony last week.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), appearing on ABC’s This Week, said “of course” Gonzales has a credibility problem. On MSNBC’s Hardball on Friday, Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT), the ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, squirmed when asked by host Chris Matthews if he thought Gonzales “is a good attorney general?” Cannon refused to answer the question, offering instead, “He’s a good guy.” .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/29/no-takes-gonzo/

[Cha]

1. Oh well..it's showing what incompetant,

constipated assholes the bushits are. Such a facility for finding the silver lining.

[MissWaverly]

2. this is huge

methinks there is more to come on the Gonzo scandal, more about using the DOJ to suppress minority voters in 2004 which is
a crime.

:-)