Gonzales helped Bush hide drunken driving conviction
Today's Washington Post provides the details on some of the many lies Gonzales has told for Bush over the last decade. Lying is how Gonzales shows his gratitude for a career that never would have happened if not for Bush's penchant for hiring incompetents.
So, is this penchant Bush has for hiring incompetents the Decider's way of feeling good about his own pathetic intellect?
Gonzales told senators earlier this year that allegations that he had been untruthful "have been personally very painful to me." But Gonzales's critics on and off Capitol Hill say he has had trouble with the truth for more than a decade, pointing to a controversy over Gonzales's account of why Bush was excused from jury duty in 1996 while serving as the governor of Texas.
Questions about Gonzales's willingness to shade the truth on Bush's behalf came to prominence in the 1996 episode in which Bush was excused from Texas jury duty in a drunken-driving case. Bush was then the state's governor, and Gonzales was his general counsel. If Bush had served, he probably would have had to disclose his own drunken-driving conviction in Maine two decades earlier.
The judge, prosecutor and defense attorney involved in the case have said that Gonzales met with the judge and argued that jury service would pose a potential conflict of interest for Bush, who could be asked to pardon the defendant. Gonzales has disputed that account. He made no mention of meeting with the judge in a written statement submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On the important question of impeaching Gonzales, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) gets an "F" in high school civics. (Do they even teach civics in high school?) [via]
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