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Abu Gonzales, Consiglieri to the Stars (Updated) 2

I said earlier

Ya know, every time I think the Current Federal Administration has exhausted the depths of sliminess, it surprises me with new bouts of creativity.

They have lost the capacity to surprise me, even as they try to roust a sick old man from his bed in ICU:

White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and President Bush’s chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., were on their way to the hospital to persuade Ashcroft to reauthorize Bush’s domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal.

In vivid testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Comey said he alerted FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and raced, sirens blaring, to join Ashcroft in his hospital room, arriving minutes before Gonzales and Card. Ashcroft, summoning the strength to lift his head and speak, refused to sign the papers they had brought. Gonzales and Card, who had never acknowledged Comey’s presence in the room, turned and left.

And, as the local rag pointed out yesterday

Ashcroft is no ACLU member, so imagine what kind of proposed practices generated this kind of intense opposition from his Justice Department.

Dick Polman wonders who dispatched Gonzales and Card on their mission:

And who sent Gonzales and White House chief of staff Andy Card to Ashcroft’s hospital bed, anyway? Bush, in his press conference this morning, was asked whether he could enlighten his fellow Americans. He declined the invitation, saying: “There’s a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn’t happen, and I’m not going to talk about it.”

Of course he’s not going to talk about it. He might accidently say something that’s not a lie, and then what would he do?

It’s time to bring back HUAC and let them target those who are truly Un-American.

Jon Stewart sums it up (via Dan Froomkin):

Jon Stewart on the Comey testimony: “Holy [expletive]! Apparently the president of the United States sent his chief of staff and legal counsel to an ICU to convince a drugged-up, pancreatically-inflamed John Ashcroft to subvert the Constitution!”

Stewart shows Sen. Charles Schumer’s reaction: “The story is a shocking one. It makes you almost gulp.”

To which Stewart responds: “ALMOST? ALMOST GULP? What is it going to take to make you actually gulp? Do these guys have to sodomize the Declaration of Independence in front of you?”

God help us all.

Addendum, Later That Same Evening.

Delaware Liberal has an idea about how to get truthful testimony from Abu.

Use Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Whaddya say? Sauce for the goose?

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2 comments

  1. Opie

    May 19, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    It’s worth all of this just to see liberals making a victim out of John Ashcroft.

     
  2. Karen

    May 23, 2007 at 9:19 am

    Monica Goodling got amnesty, so we’ll hear her two cents worth now. It ought to be good.