Like many of you, I awoke this morning to the news that Alberto Gonzales had submitted his resignation as Attorney General.
Following in the footsteps of his close friend Karl Rove, Gonzales exits the White House under a cloud of scandal. It must be made clear, however, that their resignations in no way mark the end to investigations into the abuses of power at the Justice Department. The Democratic Congress and I will continue to demand answers concerning the dismissal of eight U.S attorneys, as well as a host of other issues at the Justice Department.
The Attorney General's resignation is the product of a pattern we have seen time and again under this administration: our trusted federal agencies have been reduced to partisan instruments for the benefit of the White House and the Republican Party. And we have repeatedly seen in the Bush administration that competence takes a backseat to ideology and qualification to partisanship.
We can not afford to see this repeated with our next Attorney General; it is essential that our nation's top law enforcement officer understand their obligation is to the rule of law and not the political concerns of the President and his party.
Prosecutors in the Justice Department need to know that they can pursue their investigations regardless of where they may lead without fear of political retribution. The American people need to know that their Justice Department is focused on upholding the law and not finding ways around it.
Although Alberto Gonzales will soon be gone, the damage done to the Department of Justice remains. It is absolutely imperative that trust and accountability be restored to the beleaguered Department. More broadly, it is my hope that today will begin the restoration of our federal agencies as the independent and objective institutions that the American people expect them to be.
Given the last six years, that scientific theory may now be retired as fact.
He and the Rethug party are destroyers, not builders, but they still call themselves pro-life. Sounds far more like pro-death to me, and the amazing part is the Catholic Church cannot see through this aberration and seems almost obesient/subservient/obedient to the Rethugs, or is it the other way around.
Ultimately The Bush crime family and the Rethugs will destroy my religion, our judicial system and our democracy.
The Bush family tried this in 1932 and did not succeed because Marine Corp Gen. Smedley Butler turned them in to FDR and the government. Unfortunately for us all FDR did not prosecute them, instead choosing to let them off with a warning. Gerald Ford did the same thing with Nixon and regretted it before he died. But it is 'we the people' who really pay the price, often some kind of ultimate price like death or starvation etc.
And don't forget Scalia of the radical right wing Catholic SCOTUS who has called for an END to the ruleof law(We will become the prey and Scalia and kind will become the predators) and the END to democracy in America.
Maybe he thinks the Pope will rule America; somehow I really doubt the evangelical fundies are going to let the Catholic fundies rule America, so we can expect a religious war in America just like they have in Iraq between the Shias and Sunnis. No difference; same same.
Evidently the laws that regulate those proceedures and secure people from injustice are open to interpetation. Thousands of people have been unfairly tried and convicted ( and fired!) by only the whim of a manipulative judge that has become the protector of special interests and corporate funding. These facts influence the out come of many "unjustifiable" judgements.
Unless provisions are made law, clearly defining the process with safegards included to protect people from being railroaded down a path of
irreconsilable consiquences there can be no justice.
The constitution must be augmented having congressional over rides to clearly secure this nation from domestic piracy such as what Bush has done.
If the next administration does not include actions to put forth a program to do this, then the damage has been done and there is no hope for justice in these un-United States.
This country is not what we call America or the United States any longer except in name. The people must be aware of. The propaganda that we are pounded by daily, is made to keep people from free thinking and realizing this.
It's the same as insisting the "insurance" company process is the only model we can follow in order to have any national health care. This is BS.
Laying the burden on the people of dedundant fathomless execises in finding a provider is a relentless futile waste of resources. A single national health care system would eliminate the waste in all areas and actually benefit the country as a whole.
Reurning justice has to do with securing the constitutional method and the constitution than with whom is in the judicary seat.
Unlike Alberto, or Rove, or Rummy, or Wolfowitz....(hey where's Condi been hidding out lately?..her too!) house cleaning must start at the top!
NOT A CHANCE! He will fill the position with another toady.
As a veteran of the Vietnam era who lost a lot of friends in that horror show, I could never and will never, vote for someone who used political or family connections to get out of serving during wartime while there was a draft.
I would love to see the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee turn down any nominee that has had any former dealing with the Texas Thugs. Maybe they could be encouraged to nominate some universally stalwart Constitutional expert such as Bruce Fein! Now that's a man all America could get behind! I know I could.
Brick
However I do not hold out much hope for the Justice department to be restored to what it once was as long as George Bush, Dick cheney and the lock-step republicans are in office. Gonzales was only Bush's puppet and I feel sure that he will find another to feed his ego and tell him what he is doing in the right thing to do.
Only when the white house and the republican senators who trot behind Bush with "Yessar Master", will our country regain it's MORAL COMPASS AND RESPECT WTIH THE PEOPLE AND THE WORLD.