Attorney General Gonzales On His Last Days?

   It has been another one of those days for me which is why there has not been to much of anything posted here.

mcjoan over at the Daily Kos has an interesting look at the Alberto Gonzales press conference that he had on Tuesday and what some of the faithful are saying about it.

    It is indeed time for Gonzales to pack his bags and to leave his office for what would hopefully be a real Attorney General instead of a stooge for the White House.

    One White House mole going down, who's next?

mcjoan:

Given the efforts of the White House to stress a "growing rift" between Bush and his long time loyal lackey, and these mass desertions by the GOP, Gonzales's days in office can probably be numbered on two hands.

Alberto Gonzales should have never been confirmed as Attorney General two years ago. The issue driving this blog and all those who joined with us in opposition to his appointment was a critical one: torture.

The morally satisfying end of his tenure would have been impeachment over that issue. But his forced resignation over the Prosecutor Purge would ultimately prove as satifsying. For he would be ousted because of his repeated elevation over the political interests of the White House over the rule of law.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), the administration's most faithful legislator, said "the appearances are troubling" for Gonzales. "I'm concerned," Cornyn said with Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) at his side. "This has not been handled well." The best Cornyn could offer Gonzales: "In Texas, we believe in having a fair trial and then we have the hanging."

Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire on Wednesday became the first Republican in Congress to call for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' dismissal, hours after President Bush expressed confidence in his embattled Cabinet officer.

And how about the punditry? He's lost that most non-shrill of the DC punditry, Ruth Marcus at WaPo:

In his now famous "overblown personnel matter" column in USA Today last week, Gonzales wrote, "While I am grateful for the public service of these seven U.S. attorneys, they simply lost my confidence." (Or did he mean Kyle Sampson's confidence?)

It's time -- past time -- for the president to say the same, perhaps more quietly and more politely, about his friend, his counselor and his failed attorney general.

 

Technorati tags: Alberto Gonzales, Prosecutor Purge, impeachment

 

Dying woman loses marijuana appeal,and that is pathetic!

Yahoo News

Dying woman loses marijuana appeal

By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer

March 14, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO - A California woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive is not immune from federal prosecution on drug charges, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The case was brought by Angel Raich, an Oakland mother of two who suffers from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other ailments. On her doctor's advice, she eats or smokes marijuana every couple of hours to ease her pain and bolster a nonexistent appetite as conventional drugs did not work.

The Supreme Court ruled against Raich two years ago, saying that medical marijuana users and their suppliers could be prosecuted for breaching federal drug laws even if they lived in a state such as California where medical pot is legal.

Because of that ruling, the issue before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was narrowed to the so-called right to life theory: that marijuana should be allowed if it is the only viable option to keep a patient alive.

Raich, 41, began sobbing when she was told of the decision and said she would continue using the drug.

"I'm sure not going to let them kill me," she said. "Oh my God."

   This is another one of those cases where the federal government has forgotten " We the people " once again. If memory serves me right, the federal government is always saying that the states should deal with their own issues yet when something comes up that the feds do not like, they have the veto power over the states Over " We, the people ".

   Some of these old fuck's in our government need to retire and go back to their homes and let the people that don't have bad memory lapses and who actually may know a thing or two about pot, make the decisions.

   I myself, if I had the womans address, would see that she got a few pounds for her use, but that's just me.

 

Technorati tags: California, medical marijuana, Supreme Court, Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. government