Alberto Gonzalez and Doing the Right Thing

I have to say, I didn’t see this coming. I honestly thought that Alberto Gonzalez would remain attorney general as long as Dubya remained President. I thought that there was no way POTUS could afford to give up the legal protection of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. I assumed that Gonzalez, who smirked and sneered his way through a fuck you confirmation process and numerous fuck you sessions of testimony before Congress would stay. He was the President’s butt boy and proud to have the honor. He was arrogant and simply bluffed his way through all kinds of lies and obfuscations when Senate Democrats asked him the tough questions. In many cases, it appeared that the Dems were caught flatfooted as if they couldn’t possibly believe that this guy could actually tell these lies and keep a straight face.

I also figured that POTUS would keep Gonzalez around not only as a shield to keep the President’s critics at bay; I thought that Dubya would keep him around because he knew (or someone told him in very small words) that there was no way he could ram through another loyal bushie because the Democratic majority in the Senate would prevent that from happening. The man needs an Attorney General after all and it’s pretty obvious that he needs one who will tell the President and Congress, with a straight face, that the President is not beholden to any constraint, legal or otherwise. He has to be willing to publicly give a rimjob to the President at a moment’s notice and while under oath. This is not an easy guy to locate and in Gonzalez the President had pure gold.

Which is why I am actually quite shocked that Gonzalez is now gone. The good news is that I am obviously very fallible in terms of guessing what will happen in the world of politics so my prior anti-Hillary screed may be entirely worthless.

Now that Gonzalez is gone, the President has a couple of options. The first one is a recess appointment. He can pick another bootlick in the mold of Gonzalez and not even try to have him confirmed. Just name him while Congress is in recess and then the President has effectively named Gonzalez’ successor for the remainder of Bush’s term. The President allegedly already has made a “deal” with Harry Reid whereby the President won’t make any recess appointments and Reid will promise to get some of Bush’s nominees to the floor. Still, the timing of this resignation makes me think that Bush is planning something and that he will name a recess appointment before Reid can do anything about it. Honestly, that has to be tempting. This President has already trashed his credibility with Congress so if he bails out on another promise, it really won’t make anything worse, especially if by doing so he gets to keep his shield in place. I am sure that the calculus going on in the White House is “Well, we might have trouble getting a former KKK Imperial Wizard approved as ambassador to Liberia, but if we are willing to give up on that we can stall any actual investigation until the end of the term when the President will pardon us all and then we go off and enjoy our millions of dollars.”

So, put me on the record as saying I expect a recess appointment. Again, I could be wrong and you would have to get pretty good odds on betting I am way off on this one.

But, if I am wrong and if Dubya decides to actually try to run his nominee through the confirmation process, please consider this a call for the Democrats to finally stand up for themselves and for me. No more rolling over, no more giving the President what he wants. No more listening to Joe Lieberman or any of the “Blue Dog” Democrats. Fuck that and fuck them. America is dying for someone to stand up to the unchecked power of this president and you should all be ashamed of yourselves and the way you have rolled over every time he has commanded it. Show some balls for once and filibuster anyone who won’t actually enforce e the laws and provide some oversight to an administration that has run roughshod over every fucking freedom we hold dear.

Do NOT confirm someone who believes that he is the President’s lawyer. Alberto Gonzalez, an embarrassment to Mexicans everywhere, believed that he was the President’s attorney. The fact of the matter is that he was MY lawyer and he never once gave me the respect I was owed as his client. He roughly fucked me in the ass just to have the pleasure of gently kissing the President’s. How he can sleep at night, how he avoids shame the way he does and how he hasn’t been impeached or disbarred up until now are all mysteries to me.

It cannot be stated too strongly that Democrats in the Senate need to draw the line here. Let him appoint a conservative because that is his prerogative. But there are a lot of conservative lawyers out there who believe that his is a nation of laws and not of men. Force him to pick one of THEM. Just for once stand up for the principles and ideals that make you a Democrat. There is still time for you to do some good before this President leaves office. Don’t squander this one as you have so many others.