Our former U.S. Attorney General's legacy doesn't sit merely on the suspicious firing of U.S. attorneys, wiretapping mass numbers of citizens, validating torture, or even the erasue of due process and habeaus corpus at a mysterious offshore prison: Gonzales also made a name for himself by valuing fetal tissue and cells over real live women and girls.
Paige Rockwell at Salon points out that he was, after all, "the guy behind Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood, the landmark cases in which the Supreme Court upheld the speciously named 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act."
Via Feministing.
Latinos must be so happy to know that they no longer need to be better than anyone else to rise in society. Gonzales is a no-talent hack with only one virtue left: mindless loyalty to El Hefe. He has sacrificed all other virtues to retain this one. See, is America great? Anyone who is willing to make the necessary sacrifices can succeed.
Posted by: Russell Hyland | August 30, 2007 at 10:12 AM
I gotta wonder about his resignation, as well as the scads of other Bush administration folks who are bailing out. Did they Gonzales have a moral re-awakening, of the "I can't do this anymore" ilk? If so, why did he announce his quitting in a press conference--timed at under two minutes--that said it was a great honor to have this job, etc. etc. Was it for appearances only?
Or was the resignation a technicality--"I just don't feel like doing this anymore?" Or a savvy image-saving move: "Staying in this job is doing no good to my public image, and I better get out now before it gets worse?"
So many questions. And in his brief press conferences--timed at under two minutes--there were so few answers.
I am sorry that the first Hispanic to hold this office wasn't a more honorable groundbreaker.
Sigh.
Posted by: Anna Clark | August 30, 2007 at 12:20 PM