Dakota

Light into Darkness

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From a commenter on Firedoglake:

Explaining his role in the botched firing of federal prosecutors, Gonzales uttered the phrase “I don’t recall” and its variants (”I have no recollection,” “I have no memory”) 64 times. Along the way, his answer became so routine that a Marine in the crowd put down his poster protesting the Iraq war and replaced it with a running “I don’t recall” tally.

Take Gonzales’s tally along with that of his former chief of staff, who uttered the phrase “I don’t remember” 122 times before the same committee three weeks ago, and the Justice Department might want to consider handing out Ginkgo biloba in the employee cafeteria.

Christy Hardin Smith, a litigator herself, has an excellent commentary there, as does Dan Froomkin at washingtonpost.com

If you want to see the testimony with your very own eyes, the juicy parts are available because Paul Keil at TPM Muckraker has posted clips, rescuing them from obscurity on C-Spam 3. , or you may watch Jon Stewart's summary where he identifies Gonzales' use of "The Ken Lay Defense" - I'm not corrupt I'm incompetent and the "Chair Defense" - I was in the room as an inanimate object.

The networks were busy giving paranoid schizophrenics everywhere a reason to act out, or covering the President's bizarre performance in the Midwest where he did his Bushie best to distract our attention from the Senate hearings. W.'s tongue was loosened, and he settled into an enthusiastically received incoherent ramble which went on for an hour and a half. I found a possible explanation, again, in the comments at Firedoglake,
beginning with a line from said rambling:

_”The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that’s how I feel. And she’s also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.” One of the gossip columnists at E! online, Ted Casablancas, had a bit in his column yesterday claiming that Stepford Laura is living at the Adam-Hays Hotel in DC. She’s supposed to have moved out because Commander Codpiece is off the wagon big-time.

As Andy Card told Jon Stewart, "Even people who do not like the president want to be his friend.". Now we can all have that beer with him , it seems.

Photo note: A Western -- metaphorophotographically speaking - bringing light into darkness.

Posted by Dakota at April 20, 2007 10:38 AM