Even right-leaning bloggers 'not sorry' Gonzales resigned
As reactions to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales roll in from the blogosphere, it’s clear there is precious little love lost for the departing AG, with both sides of the online aisle landing choice parting shots.
"I am not sorry to see AGAG go," said Erick Erickson at RedState. “All we have learned, all we have seen these past few years with AGAG at Justice better make the Ashcroft haters come to their senses.”
At the National Review’s The Corner, Andy McCarthy is more measured, writing that while the “resignation was overdue,” it was unfortunate, in his opinion, that “it is being tied so publicly to the U.S. attorneys firings since they were the least of the problem.” McCarthy adds that “Gonzales was too wounded and, in any event, too lacking in vision to lead.”
Ed Morrissey, weighing in at the right-leaning Captain's Quarters, writes “No one did anything illegal in terminating the federal prosecutors, but Gonzales and his team made it into a royal botch-up anyway,” going on to say “It’s been a royal embarrassment.”
Not surprisingly, liberal and moderate bloggers, many of whom have been calling for Gonzales’ ouster for months, are piling on.
“And how about continuing efforts to impeach Gonzales?” writes Markos Moulitsas at DailyKos, offering further that “had Democrats not taken over Congress in 2006, Gonzales would still be Attorney General.”
“Alberto Gonzales helped to destroy the good name of our country,” chimes in ObsidianWings’ Hilzoy, guest-blogging at Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. “He wrote the legal opinions that allowed the administration to disregard laws it did not wish to follow, and in so doing did real damage to the structure of our government and to the separation of powers. He took a department that was, by all accounts, superb, and trashed it. Goodbye and good riddance.”
Equal-opportunity skewerer Wonkette, meanwhile, points to one last bungle by Gonzales. “In one final display of hilarious ineptitude, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned on a Friday afternoon, the traditional home of the unwelcome newsdump, and then waited until a Monday morning to announce it."
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