Conservatives Call for Gonzales’ Resignation
Adam Zagorin writes for TIME that “a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to the White House to call for his resignation.”
Among the ones who signed the letter calling for Gonzales’ resignation: Bruce Fein, David Keene, Richard Viguerie, Bob Barr and John Whitehead.
They are not just fed up with Gonzales because of the controversy surrounding the firing of the eight U.S. attorneys, their complains go further than that. The letter states:
“Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution’s time-honored checks and balances. He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm… He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice.”
And concludes: “Attorney General Gonzales has proven an unsuitable steward of the law and should resign for the good of the country… The President should accept the resignation, and set a standard to which the wise and honest might repair in nominating a successor.”
As Zagorin notes, “it is the first public demand by a group of conservatives for Gonzales’ firing.”
This crisis keeps on escalating. If Gonzales was hoping that the fire would die out due to lack of oxygen, well, I am afraid that the wish was the father of the thought because reality shows that this thing will not go away.
More at The Strate-Sphere and Swampland.
h/t Memeorandum.
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Yeah – Conservatives separating themselves from Bush – or probably more accurate – pushing Bush away saying he doesn’t speak for our party.
ergo – if he’s not going to fix it – they will.
Exactly.
It does spell significant problems for Bush though: the conservative base is his base. He was brought to power by a conservative coalition… if one group, if one partner of that conservative coalition stops supporting Bush (loyally), Bush will have a hard time getting things done in the remaining 1.8 years of his presidency.
He’s not going to be able to get much done now anyway. At this point the only way for a President to get stuff done with this amount of time remaining in 2nd term – is to hit feel-good bills that candidates can use to campaign with.
Hmm yeah and, of course, Bush through some stuff in the last couple of months / weeks (Clinton did that as well).
I always find it remarkable. In essence it means that a two-term president can only truly get things done 5 out of 8 years, or 6 at best.
What about those other freaking years?
Politics
actually less than that. the TV Show West Wing talked briefly about it.
Said they basically had 180 days out of a 4 year term.
you have your first 180 days – then it’s campaigning for mid-terms and mid-term candidates will want their own agenda to present. Then when that’s over you get a little more time – but not much because then it’s another major election cycle.