As the Turd Blossoms.

Karl Rove has been taken away from his responsibilities of rigging this year's presidential election to be called in to testify in the Justice Department attorney scandal case.

Just Because

Fredo is gone, that doesn't mean the administration's assault on civil liberties, including the right to fair elections, won't continue.

Gonzalesgate.

Fredo decided to get the hell out of Dodge.

He told our dictator he was through being his fall guy on Friday.

Harry Reid insists investigations will continue.

Gonzalesgate.

It goes without saying Gonzales needs to be impeached:

For all its emotional appeal, this

column has always opposed wasting

time and energy on the impeachment of President Bush. That’s not to say one couldn’t draw up a list of impeachable offenses, from taking the nation to war on false premises to countenancing such outrages against the Constitution as warrantless wiretaps, false imprisonment and torture. The votes, however, simply don’t exist. Congressional Republicans remain committed to Bush / Cheney, along with the party’s hard-core base. Dragging the nation through another fruitless, made-for-TV spectacle like the Clinton impeachment would look like cheap revenge. It would threaten to turn a grave constitutional remedy into a commonplace political sideshow. That said, Congress should quit pussyfooting around and impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at once. Halfway measures like a special prosecutor would only produce more of what Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N. Y., characterizes as Gonzales’ strategy of “the half-truth, the partial truth and anything but the truth.” For once, I agree with Newt Gingrich. Appearing on “FOX News Sunday,” he declined to defend Gonzales against accusations of repeatedly lying to Congress.

Lotsa luck getting that done.

Gonzalesgate.

I am beginning to wonder if impeachment is in the cards now that it is clear beyond all doubt Fredo lied in front of Congress.

I mean he's cooked.

Once Again

the Democrats are at fault over Gonzalesgate.

Gonzalesgate.

There are still more hearings going on today with Fredo being under oath, I guess, but he continues to try and get around telling the truth as much as he can.

Gonzalesgate.

Our dictator once again thinks he is above the law by claiming he doesn't have to turn over documents to Congress.

Gonzalesgate.

Monica Goodling told all or something today, but I missed it.

Her work experience in the area of human resources has been widely ridiculed.

More here.
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Gonzalesgate.

Iglesias had a lot to say about his firing.

John Dean

has some commentary about Gonzalesgate and argues why Fredo has to go.

As the World Turns.

He risked it all for love and lost.
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Old Fredo is on borrowed time, I'm afraid.
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Gonzalesgate.

Deputy AG McNulty has decided to jump ship after only 18 months in office.

The fallout has led to a deepening rift between Gonzales, who was upset by the testimony about former U.S. attorney Bud Cummins, and McNulty, whose supporters believe he has been tarred by missteps and possible wrongdoing by former Gonzales aides, according to numerous Justice officials. McNulty has told congressional investigators that D. Kyle Sampson, then Gonzales's chief of staff, and Monica M. Goodling, then the department's White House liaison, did not brief him fully before his testimony.

Democrats Could

enhance their reputation by standing up to our dictator over Gonzalesgate.

Not Surprising

is this report that the White House was involved in attempts to suppress voter turnout last election by pressing for bogus "voter fraud" investigations.

Although the Justice Department has released thousands of documents related to the inquiry, officials haven't said whether they considered firing more prosecutors.

McClatchy Newspapers has reported that the department targeted at least four other prosecutors, including Biskupic.

Another former U.S. attorney, Todd Graves of Kansas City, Mo., revealed this week that he was asked to step aside for another candidate. He also said he had refused to sign off on a voting-rights lawsuit, which another Justice Department official later approved in Washington. The official, Brad Schlozman, later became Graves' temporary replacement.

Gonzales denied that the department considered removing Graves as part of the same firing plan.

Here

is an article about Gonzalesgate.

Somehow my satellite TV thing is messed up. I am trying to fix it, but to no avail so far. Therefore, I am missing out on so much.

Gonzalesgate.

The scandal ought to get really good when Goodling testifies.

Snip:

As the former senior counselor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and principal liaison between Gonzales and the White House, Goodling is a key witness to the role of Bush and his top political aide, Karl Rove, in the politically motivated purge.

Seven of the prosecutors were fired last December 8, while the eighth was discharged a few months earlier. The firings had a clear political motivation: nearly all the US attorneys were under fire within the Bush administration and from congressional Republicans because they had either prosecuted high-level Republicans on corruption charges or declined to bring bogus vote fraud cases against Democrats in states that were closely contested politically.

Until now, Goodling, who resigned her position March 29, had refused to testify about the circumstances of the firings, citing her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. It is almost unprecedented for a top official of the chief law enforcement department of the federal government to invoke the Fifth Amendment, an action that suggests that the dismissal of the US attorneys could involve crimes, such as obstruction of justice.

The Plot

to screw Democrats over began far sooner than Gonzalesgate:

One of the aims of the abortive purge of U.S. attorneys was to punish those who refused to toe the line on the new emphasis on alleged voter fraud. A few fired prosecutors would serve as examples to the rest –- either move to criminalize the election process or face dismissal.

But the assault on voter fraud was a solution looking for a problem. As part of the Help America Vote Act, Republicans insisted on creating the Election Assistance Commission, which commissioned studies of the asserted problem. When the studies failed to turn up evidence of fraud nationwide, appointed Republican officials on the EAC insisted that the language say only that "there is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud in elections" -- the same approach to inconvenient evidence that's made the Bush global-warming policy the envy of the world.

Gonzalesgate.

Simple Sampson withheld some 600 emails from investigators.

Presidential Notes.

John Edwards calls on our dictator or Cheney or whoever to fire Turd Blossom and for Fredo to resign.

It's a good idea, but I doubt Turd is going anywhere.
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