Conservative group in letter to Bush: Fire Gonzales; "He has brought rule of law into disrepute."

[DeepModem Mom]

TIME: Conservatives to Bush: Fire Gonzales
By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON
Monday, Apr. 16, 2007


Attorney General Alberto Gonzales listens to a reporter's question during a press conference as U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Michael Sullivan, looks on in Boston Friday March 30, 2007. (Stephan Savoia / AP)

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.

The two-page letter, written on stationery of the American Freedom Agenda, a recently formed body designed to promote conservative legal principles, is blunt. Addressed to both Bush and Gonzales, it goes well beyond the U.S. attorneys controversy and details other alleged failings by Gonzales. "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."

The letter concludes by saying, "Attorney General Gonzales has proven an unsuitable steward of the law and should resign for the good of the country... The President should accept the resignation, and set a standard to which the wise and honest might repair in nominating a successor..." It is the first public demand by a group of conservatives for Gonzales' firing. Signatories to the letter include Bruce Fein, a former senior official in the Reagan Justice Department, who has worked frequently with current Administration and the Republican National Committee to promote Bush's court nominees; David Keene, chairman of the influential American Conservative Union, one of the nation's oldest and largest grassroots conservative groups, Richard Viguerie, a well-known GOP direct mail expert and fundraiser, Bob Barr, the former Republican congressman from Georgia and free speech advocate, as well as John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, a conservative non-forit active in fighting for what it calls religious freedoms.

Fein, speaking for the signatories, told TIME that Gonzales' planned testimony to Congress tomorrow, the text of which has been released by the Justice Department, was a "terrible disappointment" that left unanswered key questions on which his job may now depend. "Gonzales testimony before the Judiciary Committee resorts to a truly Clintonesque defense of his own previous false statements," says Fein. "In fact," he says, "Gonzales' latest declarations really do call into question the forthrightness and honesty indispensable for America's chief law enforcement officer."...

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Signers of the letter says that it is also aimed at fellow Republicans — and especially GOP members of Congress — whom they hope to encourage to call for the attorney general's ouster, a step they argue is crucial to ending damage to the Department of Justice, as well as GOP standing on Capitol Hill....

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1610738,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. won't change anything.

the more people disagree with BUsh, the stronger his determination to stay the coarse.

until and unless Laura, Darth, Condi, Karen, and Harriet sit him down and tell him, "or else", he will never listen.

Besides, Gonzo is there doing precisely what he was instructed to do. Why else are 150 christian soldiers doing battle on jeezus' and Bush's behalf?

[havocmom]

3. One of that Gang of 5 MUST be able to forge his scrawl.

Somebody's been signing docs in DimSon's name for eons now. He is clueless about the orders he has allegedly given in the past. Somebody signed something to fire all those attorneys and since only the pResident can fire them... Somebody needs to just sign the order firing Gonzales and remind the cretin-in-chief how much fun he had firing Gonzales next morning.

[Broadslidin]

2. Time magazine is Not Allowed in El Supremo's private "Toilet" room...!

:hurts:

[Solly Mack]

4. LMAO. "rule of law", huh? By that standard the entire Bush administration should be fired

I love it. They are appealing to Bush because "He(Gonzales) has brought rule of law into disrepute."

LMAO

LOLOLOLOL

Like Bush is any different?

LMAO

[kestrel91316]

5. He won't resign. And Bush won't fire him. These people are the very definition

of mule-headed.