Just in Time for Gonzales' Congressional appearance:
In what could prove an embarrassing new setback for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to the White House to call for his resignation....
"Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances," it declares. "He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm." Alluding to ongoing scandal, it notes: "He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice."
Among the signers are Bruce Fein and Richard Viguerie, prominent Republican activists; David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union; Bob Barr, a former Republican Congressman; John Whitehead of the conservative Rutherford Institute.
As the story notes, many conservatives have disliked Gonzales for other reasons for years. But this just underscores the lack of support Gonzales has anywhere outside the White House -- and the political costs of his continued presence atop Justice.
Here's the full text of the letter.
Gonzales, politics, midtopia
1 comment:
I've only heard of Bob Barr out of the list. And you can bet he doesn't like Gonzales for other reasons.....having more to do with his NOT going after Democrats more aggressively and focusing so much on Republicans.
This list of Repulibcans mean nothing to me. Frankly, I never cared much for Bob Barr....even when he was a rabid witch hunter for Bill Clinton.
JP5
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