This will come as no great shock to most of you, but all the Republican hacks who spent a few months claiming the Gonzalez affair was a “made-up” scandal were, yet again, wrong:
As for her own role in Justice Department hirings and firings, she said, “I do acknowledge that I may have gone too far in asking political questions of applicants for career positions, and I may have taken inappropriate political considerations into account on some occasions, and I regret those mistakes.”
When the hearing got under way, there were suggestions that Ms. Goodling, who is 33, may have acted illegally, rather than just improperly. In any event, the grant of immunity under which she testified protected her from self-incrimination, so long as she told the truth, which she swore to do.
How many of them do you think will acknowledge this error?
BTW- Does anyone have a transcript of the testimony?
Fed up!
How many will acknowledge this error? In a word: NONE.
jg
The DOJ was always used as a political weapon. There is nothing to see here.
Snarky Shark
How many of them do you think will acknowledge this error?
The only thing they will acknowledge is this is just more ‘Bush Derangement Syndrome’, and just partisan politics.
These people have no actual grasp of the concept of hypocrisy.
Or shame for that matter.
Party uber alles!
Tsulagi
Exactly.
She was given an immunity deal by the hate-America Dems solely for the purpose of tarnishing the impeccable reputation and good works of the Gonzales’ DOJ. That way she could lie and not face prosecution later. Known truth.
Dreggas
John,
She sat there, on national television and admitted she broke the law, then proceded to throw gonzales under the bus and claim he tried to coach her as a witness as well as the fact he lied under oath multiple times, and all the republicans on the committee could do was the following:
Mention Clinton
Mention Murtha (Utah must be so proud of their rep)
Stroke Goodlings Ego (if she had a penis they’d be sucking it)
Claim that this was nothing but a waste of time
Claim there was nothing to any of the allegations.
Bubblegum Tate
Precisely. Also, Clinton was much, much worse.
Tulkinghorn
Yeah, Clinton fire 93 USAs, but did you hear the DemonRats complain about that?
/wingnut
Dug Jay
Apparently you asshats watched a different hearing than the one I saw. There was not even a scintilla of a hint of illegal White House involvement in the Attorney firings. Ms. Goodings may have gone off the ranch on her own in terms of certain of her actions, but there is not one shred of evidence that Karl Rove or any of your other faves were involved.
Dreggas
Nice Jackalope ya got there…
srv
If the Republicans have shown this country anything over the last six years, it is how many cowards there are. We now know it is exactly 28%.
It’s time we celebrate. Even Darrell is dead now. It must hurt to even be a laughingstocks to the leadership he’s spent his blog life fellating.
conumbdrum
So, Dug… do you honestly BELIEVE that Rove wasn’t involved in any attempt to transform the Department of Justice into an arm of the Republican Party, and that the muscle of the DOJ was not massing behind winning back Congress for the GOP in 2008…
…or is your take that, hey, you can’t PROVE it happened, so tough shit, Democrats! Bwaah hah hah hah!!
In your case, I suspect the latter.
PeterJ
Gonzales is a dead man walking. So Goodling fingers him while saying that she never did have any contact with Miers or Rove. The man being sacrificed to save those two is already a corpse anyway.
sglover
Welp, genius, Gooding did mention an exit interview with Gonzales, in which he described events that he claimed he’d “forgotten” during Congressional testimony. Occam’s Razor implies that the slimy little toad was lying through his teeth during his “testimony”.
But hey, that just makes him a good soldier, right? Who needs principles, why bother respecting a sworn oath, when The Leader needs you to sell your shriveled soul?
Kirk Spencer
Dug Jay,
I know you were not listening to the same hearing to which I was listening. She stated that she communicated with Harriet Meiers (sp?), and may have had some communications with Mr. Rove, and it was discussed with Mr. Jennings and Ms. Taylor. All those are White House staff. (Answers in response to questions from Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX).)
Ah – TPMMuckraker’s got the video of that here.
JL
What I found interesting was that although she did admit to breaking a law by crossing a line, she implicated all the top players in Justice for perjury charges. The White House seemed to be above it all. Of course, she has said that she worked for the administration even though Justice is suppose to be above politics. Go figure,
ThymeZone
Well, the number Zero comes to mind.
jake
If by error you mean not realizing Goodling was a treacherous DemoNcRat mole, foisted off on poor old GoneZo to fuck up everything and then stab him in the back…
Nah. They wouldn’t go that far, would they?
Aaron
with video:
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=415
And tulkinghorn- we expect an incoming president of a different party to replace the AAGs. Reagan, Clinton and Bush 2 did it and no one who wasnt an azzhat was surprised.
What is surprising is illegally applying a political litmus test to the non-political line staff.
And of course firing your own AAG’s becouse of “performance” rather then “political” criteria is fine too unless it depends what the meaning of those words is “is”.
The Other Steve
No mention of goodling over at Instahack
Hughhewitt : Nope
Captain’s Quarters: Nothing
Powerline: Nada
Redstate: Zero
Bukkake Wisdom: Null
Patterico: Nope
Open Sores Media: no way
any more to check?
over it
I don’t want to whack a hornet’s nest…but…where is Darrell? I have not been as regular in reading over the past couple of months (only sporadic internet access), but I have not seen him bark at anyone in ages. Did he GBCW it?
I was pretty surprised at how much Monica sang today. I figured that she would have been coached enough to keep mum (and given the promise of a Presidential pardon if she got in trouble for it). Seems to me as though the
housepalace of cards may well be tumbling down.About damn time.(won’t hold my breath though)
over it
I don’t want to whack a hornet’s nest…but…where is Darrell? I have not been as regular in reading over the past couple of months (only sporadic internet access), but I have not seen him bark at anyone in ages. Did he GBCW it?
I was pretty surprised at how much Monica sang today. I figured that she would have been coached enough to keep mum (and given the promise of a Presidential pardon if she got in trouble for it). Seems to me as though the
housepalace of cards may well be tumbling down.About damn time.(won’t hold my breath though)
John Lott
“Does anyone have a transcript of the testimony?”
Go to CSPAN, watch the archived stream, make a transcript yourself, and post it.
Sheesh! What do we pay you for?
John Lott
“Does anyone have a transcript of the testimony?”
Go to CSPAN, watch the archived stream, make a transcript yourself, and post it.
Sheesh! What do we pay you for?
Tulkinghorn
Aaron-
I have seen the ‘Clinton firing 93 USAs’ line repeated endlessly since the the moment this scandal developed, even though it has been irrelevant all along. I think a couple of the Republicans on the committee recycled it yesterday, too. I raise it because it is pernicious nonsense that we will continue to hear from the dead-enders.
At this point nobody in the media seems to have caught on with the main point of this scandal – that this is all about a plot to tilt the 2008 elections. Either this is too obscure, or too scary for the media to admit to this. Monica’s role was to stack the non-political positions with loyal bushies who would not blow the whistle when the serious chicanery goes into effect in early 2008. While she admits to the violations of the Hatch act, nobody pinned her down on the system by which the conspiracy operated.
Goodling admitted to the basic system – numerous political and non-political jobs would be posted at the same time. She would interview people who applied to both political and non-political positions, as she could then interview them on their politics. People who applied for only non-political positions probably got no interview or just a pro-forma interview.
An variation on this was the internship program for second and third-year law students. This is probably the most prestigious and competitive program in the country, and Goodling apparently just skimmed the resumes for College Republican and Federalist Society membership, giving interviews only to those willing to put a party loyalty code on their resumes – and regularly accepting some relatively weak applicants. None of this came up in the hearing, except by a vague admission to ‘crossing the line’, so I don’t know her immunity deal will help her on it.
Zombie Santa Claus
Summer classes haven’t started yet. He should be back once Professor Cole briefs a new group of students on how to write the character convincingly.
HelenaMontana
With regard to Tulkinghorn’s comment, “At this point nobody in the media seems to have caught on with the main point of this scandal – that this is all about a plot to tilt the 2008 elections. Either this is too obscure, or too scary for the media to admit to this.”
I contend that the media are fully aware of the implications of the Gonazales/Sampson/McNulty/Goodling/GodKnowsWhoElse scandal–it’s just not in their own best interest to report them. They are way, WAY too beholden to the Republicans. Why the Democrats are not screaming like stuck pigs, though, escapes me. Unless–could it be that they, too, are just corrupt little piggies, rooting at the trough of big corporate and lobbyist money, selling out their constituents just like their Republican brethren?
Tulkinghorn
Oh, and to answer John’s question, the Times has an unofficial transcript here.
Zifnab
Depends on how many are granted immunity to prosecution. This is, apparently, the only instance in which a Republican sychophant will come anywhere near the truth.
Larry
Good catch. First, I assume he warms them up with writing a few posts for a character like …. me.
Once the Larry has the hang of the thing, then he moves them on to a Darrell. The really good students will get a chance to write Birdzilla.
DougJ
Well, Goodlinkg may have broken rules, but at least she didn’t murder the DOJ staff like Hillary did.
This issue is a big loser for the Democrats, just like David Broder sayss.
DougJ
Well, Goodling may have broken rules, but at least she didn’t murder the DOJ staff like Hillary did.
This issue is a big loser for the Democrats, just like David Broder says. If they’d focus more on working with the White House instead of engaging in partisan attacks, they’d have a chance of defeating the Unity 08 juggernaut. The cave-in on war funding is a good start, but if we don’t see more of the same, we may as well just hand the presidency to Bloomberg-Hagel right now.
Dreggas
ROFLMMFAO!!!
Zombie Santa Claus
BIRDZILLA is the Shakespeare of our age.
Or stuff classified documents up her socks. Why don’t we hear any more about that? Why is the MSM trying to cover it up?
My money’s on Brownback. His support is surging.
jake
So this must mean the ones who are a little slow get Paul L. I can’t imagine what you have to do to get stuck with scs but I bet it buggers your GPA.
For some reason this makes me feel vaugely queasy.