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Hatch defends Gonzales as attorney general announces resignation

For the sake of constitutional government in this country, the resignation of Alberto Gonzales is a welcome relief. The poor fellow should never have been thrown into that mix in the first place. I am so tired of having "friends" instead of competence run various departments in Washington.

Sounds like Hatch wants the job!

I hope he gets it, then we can elect someone effective. Since the Republicans are no longer in power, Utah has lost whatever clout our little state had, by insisting on voting only for one party.

Y'all reaped what y'all voted for: Hatch, a man whose campaign promised to not serve more than two terms.

What i don't agree with is the Mud slinging. I think it is an american freedom to Fire someone.Many people get fired. Why is it not a right to fire an overload of attorneys? The right to disagree is their income. A farmer said, "the more the 'crap' is stired the more it stinks. We americans better mend our differences soon or being so at odds with our fellow americans will destroy this greatest of countries!!!!!

Gonzales was run out of office in a successful conclusion to a highly partisan political witch hunt. I still do not know which laws were broken by AG Gonzales. No one in Congress has yet shed much light on the matter.

The closest anyone in Congress has come is the inuendo filled memorandom of July 24, 2007 from John Conyers, Jr., Chairman, to members of the House Committee on the Judiciary.

I just have to wonder whether--if the firings of the US attorneys for failure to pursue possible vote fraud cases had involved cases potentially benefitting Democratic candidates--would the Democrats in Congress have been so exercised about the firings?

Alberto Gonzales' resignation was a welcome relief. This is yet another example of how people who aren't used to anything act like fools once they get it. He was an embarrassment to the very people who he represented, those who aren't wanted or needed in this country anyway.

Bart,
What does the Ganzales resignation have to do with our constitutional government? I don't get it.

Gonzales was and is a class act. Bright, accomplished and decent. Ran out of town by the shameless anti-American Marxist Democrats. He just got tired of fighting off the attack dogs when all he was trying to do was his job.

The eight attorneys fired work at the pleasure of the President. One of the attorneys let go was here in Washington state. He didn't think it was important to investigate election fraud. Here's what happened: In the first two machine counts Rossi won. It was close so his opponent asked for a hand recount. Amazingly, heavily Democrat King County started finding votes everywhere...under the stairs, in the back room, under the carpet, the felon vote, multiple vote casting...enough to sway the count. Two machine counts favored the Republican, hand counts produced another. Nothing there to cause concern, right? Nothing could get him to look into the matter. His party won. Who cared if it was fraudulent?

Clinton fired all attorneys general when he came in the door--one in Arkansas working on the White Water scandal. (Many people pled guilty or were convicted and went to jail in that case.) Later, he fired a whole bunch of others. Somehow, this is acceptable, but Bush getting rid of poorly performing attorneys is horrendous.

Gonzales got tired of the ankle-biters and the on-going liberal sleaze machine. Who can blame him? And, what does it portend for the future when political hacks can destroy the career of good public servants for their party's benefit and to the country's hurt?

Gonzo is not bright. He couldn't even tell the story of what happened with the firings of the AGs. As of today, it appears he didn't break any laws. But he was caught in numerous lies trying to tell a twisted version of why they were fired. There are more vacancies in the AG office right now than any other period of history. Witch hunt? I think not. After listening to him defend himself it is clear he couldn't explain how to get to the the post office in his home town. He is not a good spokesperson for the constitution. Good riddance.

Bookaholic... Thank you... You said a lot of what I wanted to... I didn't however know what happened in Washington state...

Gonzales was a disgrace to our legal system for, among other things, his inability to tell the truth. His testimony over the fired US attorneys was contradictory to other statements he'd made, and emails and testimony from Sampson and others corroborate that this man was not telling the truth.

I personally find his lies inexcusable, and am happy to see him go.

While partisanship always plays into these things, for me (a Republican), the case is pretty clear that Gonzalez doesn't have the integrity necessary to hold this position.

This is a great day for America. And one day soon we will be able to call ourselves the Land of the Free again.

A class act? Bookaholic, are you kidding me? He was in favor of spying that made even John Ashcroft uncomfortable, and he's been doing nothing but drag the Bush Administration further down. People don't seem to understand that Bush's people are very cavalier in their taking away of civil liberties. I don't disagree with all of Bush's politics; I just hope we get someone in office who will at least respect people's right to dissenting opinions, and be willing to have conversations with people we don't like. That's part of the job.

Alright Fixed News watchers, and KSL radio listeners, try doing some research and see what you can find out about 'vote caging'. This is the real underlying reason they were fired, for not towing a political party line that was helping to keep 1000's from voting in important states like Florida and Ohio.

Don't even THINK about being the new AG, Hatch!

Oh please take Hatch. Get him OUT of the senate quick!

This is what we have come to expect from Hatch. His moral compass never had a sense of direction. Were did Hatch learn that lying to maintain power was moral?

santiago
look at it this way If hatch were the new Ag we would be rid of him in two years and at the same time we would be rid of him as our Senitor thats a win win

If Hatch is appointed, I'm affraid he won't have any more time to write poetry.

Nah, he'll always make time for poetry. Even if it's costing tax dollars.

Considering the history that Mormons have with government taking away personal rights and abuse of process, it is funny how absent minded the right wing can be in forgetting that the were victims once and probably will be again.