U.S. Attorney General Resigns

willie3204 is one of many to mention that U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned. One of Gonzales' main opponents praised his decision stating that: "'For the previous six months, the Justice Department has been virtually nonfunctional and desperately needs new leadership,' said the Schumer statement. 'Democrats will not obstruct or impede a nominee who we are confident will put the rule of law above political considerations. We beseech the Administration to work with us to nominate someone whom Democrats can support and America can be proud of.'"

Comments

Re:Now will the opposing party actually push back?

[Scudsucker]

Republican support turned against Bush a while back. Calling your base racist and pushing through an amnesty for 20 million illegals when the base overwhelmingly opposes it tends to do that.

Hardly. Bush's stance on immigration is not new; you also knew you were voting for a lazy incompetent in 2000 and a lazy incompetent Constitution shredding warmonger in 2004. No, the Republican party started verbally backing away from Bush when they realized that he was killing their election chances for a generation, nevermind that they backed him and his policies to the hilt. I say "verbally" because they still back him to the hilt on every issue except immigration.

Conservatism has failed America. Completely and utterly failed. Conservatives response to this fact is not to re-access their platform, but to claim that their conservatives leaders really weren't conservative:

Richard Cohen discovers something some of us on the right have been saying for a while: if you hold your head just so and look at Bush from the right angle, he looks an awful lot like a liberal.