Mr. Gonzales’s Incredible Adventure

It’s not just me!

James Comey’s testimony about the surrealistic dead of night visit by Gonzales to John Ashcroft’s hospital bed has all thinking people grasping for the correct words to describe it. Here is the New York Times editorial on the subject: Mr. Gonzales’s Incredible Adventure – New York Times

Any way you cut this Gonzales and Andrew Card, who went with him, come out looking venal. It is deplorable for anyone to expect a seriously ill and highly medicated person to be able to think clearly. It is entirely beyond the pale of decency and is devoid of moral sense when two high ranking administration officials do so on a matter of national importance.

It seems clear that Bush organized the visit so he too is culpable. Not that that should surprise us: he has no morality worth a damn anyway.

Now, however, for all you Republican loyalists we have an acid test. What do you say to this? Was it fine and dandy that Gonzales tried to get a signature from Ashcroft? While you ponder that let me remind you that Ashcroft was a loyal right winger and he had determined that the ‘program’ Bush wanted him to sign off on was illegal. Let me also remind you that he had handed over the reins to Comey due to his illness. So getting Ashcroft to sign was a blatant and desparate attempt to end-run the law. Let me also remind you that the entire top layer of the Justice Department and the head of the FBI thought that Bush’s program was so illegal that they all threatened to resign as a result of Gonzales failed mission.

Think that through all you defenders of Bush. Think of just how bad that program must have been [still is?] for all those loyal Republicans to rise up in revolt.

And you still put party before country? Thank goodness Comey, and his colleagues, didn’t.

Shame on you.