The front-page headline says: If he’s confirmed, he says he’ll represent all the people instead of just the president. Well, golly Others besides Straight Up’s staff of thousands have not been taken in by Gonzales’s Citing last month’s ruling by Britain’s highest court that, as one of the justices wrote, such And as the lead editorial<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in this morning’s
\nas Rummy Boy might say, golly gee willikers<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. How noble
\nof Mr. Gonzales. Give that man a medal. Better yet, make that man attorney general. After all, he
\nsays he understands the difference between being White House counsel, his current job, and being
\nthe nation’s top law enforcer. <\/P>
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\ngee again. Does that also sorta mean by implication that he sorta believed in torture when he
\nrepped the Maximum Leader and drafted a memorandum calling the Geneva Conventions
\nirrelevant? And that Georgie Boy sorta believed in torture, too?<\/P>
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\ncasts a cold eye this morning. “The Bush administration and Mr. Gonzales are trying to sell the
\nfiction that they’ve seen the light,” he writes in
\nstory in The Washington Post that the Bush regime is even now making plans to negate the due
\nprocess of law by possibly imprisoning suspected terrorists for life without ever bringing charges
\nagainst them in court. <\/P>
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\ndetentions “call into question the very existence of an ancient liberty of which this country has
\nuntil now been very proud: freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention,” Herbert concludes:
\n“That’s a sentiment completely lost on Alberto Gonzales or George W. Bush.”<\/P>
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\nNew York Times so nicely put it, speaking of Gonzales and his sense of responsibility:<\/P>
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\nEven vows of allegiance to the rule of law were rather peculiar. He said that
\nas White House counsel, he had represented “only the White House,” while as attorney general,
\nhe “would have a far broader responsibility: to pursue justice for all the people of our great
\nnation, to see that the laws are enforced in a fair and impartial manner for all Americans.” We
\nthought that was also the obligation of the president and his staff.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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