US Attorney General Gonzales resigns
Monday, August 27th, 2007Big news, yes. But did they have to put it this way?
Alberto Gonzales, the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday, driven from office after a wrenching standoff with congressional critics over his honesty and competence.
For some reason, that just frosts my ass. They wouldn’t said “the nation’s 27th white attorney general,” I don’t think. My mind probably goes too quickly to the buttheads whose thought processes would be fueled by such a statement, and add a continuation like, “SEE? I told you Hispanics shouldn’t hold such positions!”
I’m trying to be sunnily optimistic and such, but maybe not hard enough. Maybe I look too quickly to the racist crowd, anticipating nonsense of some kind.
Still… Dubya’s circle is sure shrinking, isn’t it?
Here’s a snip of the story, from US Attorney General Gonzales resigns - Yahoo! News:
“Gonzales, whom Bush once considered for appointment to the Supreme Court, is the fourth top-ranking administration official to leave since November 2006, following Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, who had a high-ranking Pentagon job before going to the World Bank as its president, and top political and policy adviser Karl Rove.”Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., reacted to the announcement by saying the Justice Department under Gonzales had “suffered a severe crisis of leadership that allowed our justice system to be corrupted by political influence.” ‘
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