Upon the resignation of Alberto "Slowpoke" Gonzales as United States Attorney General, I wanted to correct one part of the statement from Mr. Gonzales's press conference yesterday. Now, some people would call this correction a minor technicality, but I happen to believe it is a major technicality. At one point Mr. Gonzales said that "public service is honorable and noble" and that he was "profoundly grateful" to President Bush for having given him the "many opportunities . . . to serve the American people."
That sentiment is all fine and dandy; to some degree, it's even accurate. Public service is honorable and noble, Mr. Gonzales, but the problem is that, um . . . you were never in the public service field -- you were in the Presidential service field. In your three torturous years as Attorney General -- pun definitely intended -- the only people you seemingly ever served were Masters George and Dick. Every important decision you ever made as Attorney General served the megalomaniacal, authoritarian desires of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove and absolutely nobody else. Sadly, you will crawl to your grave with the steadfast belief that you really were serving the American public, a fact that's almost as sad as the negative effects your decisions have had on the American public.
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