Alberto Gonzalez: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
At least that's the way it looks from a political standpoint, particularly now that the Inspector General concluded that Monica Goodling and D. Kyle Sampson (a.k.a. "Blondie and Baldy") have been found "to routinely break the law by conducting political litmus tests on candidates for jobs as immigration judges and line prosecutors."
All this occurred under the "watchful eye" of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto "I don't recall" Gonzalez, the first - and thanks to him, maybe the last - Latino named to this post.
That said, as a lawyer I am disappointed. Attorneys are easy to find. Open your local phone book or check out your local TV advertisement and it'll be easy to see. Good attorneys, willing to serve the public good, those are really hard to find. Now by the time you finish law school your student debt could easily be in triple digits, even if you've received some financial aid along the way. For young attorneys, it is much more financially appealing to enter private practice than to take a public job. Not to mention, there's always that stigma about "government workers" which, when it comes to attorneys, is often the exception and not the rule.
What this guy allowed to take place here is disgusting and it will set back the Attorney General's efforts in recruiting good candidates for years.
And it had to happen during a Latino's watch. ¡Qué jodienda, compadre!
Goodling passed over hundreds of qualified applicants and squashed the promotions of others after deeming candidates insufficiently loyal to the Republican party, said investigators, who interviewed 85 people and received information from 300 other job seekers at Justice. Sampson developed a system to screen immigration judge candidates based on improper political considerations and routinely took recommendations from the White House Office of Political Affairs and Presidential Personnel, the report said.
All this occurred under the "watchful eye" of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto "I don't recall" Gonzalez, the first - and thanks to him, maybe the last - Latino named to this post.
That said, as a lawyer I am disappointed. Attorneys are easy to find. Open your local phone book or check out your local TV advertisement and it'll be easy to see. Good attorneys, willing to serve the public good, those are really hard to find. Now by the time you finish law school your student debt could easily be in triple digits, even if you've received some financial aid along the way. For young attorneys, it is much more financially appealing to enter private practice than to take a public job. Not to mention, there's always that stigma about "government workers" which, when it comes to attorneys, is often the exception and not the rule.
What this guy allowed to take place here is disgusting and it will set back the Attorney General's efforts in recruiting good candidates for years.
And it had to happen during a Latino's watch. ¡Qué jodienda, compadre!
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Here is what I posted at the Cactus Juice Commentaries page for the Chicano Veterans Organization. And to make matters even worse, Gonzales is a Brother of Shared Experiences. But he is not immune from criticism and that criticism is well-deserved, in this instance.
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Alberto Gonzales gets thrown from the bus
Now that the DOJ's Inspector General's Report is out, and the politicization occurred, and which is well beyond the usual political appointees. Thus, the Civil Service has been critically impacted. If so, then think Immigration Judges.
Sadly, as a citizen, I am disappointed that Alberto Gonzales has now been identified as clueless in this politicization process. However, I am not saddened that Gonzales has now lost all shred of any inherent "dignity" for having served ineptly under the Constitution, and regardless of political affiliation or presidency. In short, he threw it all away by "gaming" the system for a short-sighted view of politics. Perhaps, it's fitting that Dignity once lost, cannot be recovered?
Jaango
Jaango, I agree with pretty much everything except for this:
I am not saddened that Gonzales has now lost all shred of any inherent "dignity" for having served ineptly under the Constitution, and regardless of political affiliation or presidency
You can't lose what you never had. And by his actions, he has shown he had no dignity and little decency.
I agree that Gonzales never posessed any dignity. We "assumed" he had dignity because of his elevated position within the public eye.
It is a shame that we as a nation chooses to automatically bestow morality upon people simply because of their political qualifications and accomplishments.
Today, I checked in to see what had been written, beyond what El Loco and I have written, so, to Kate, let me say to you, the following:
I would tend to agree, but my agreement would be predicated on the respective Standard of Measurement when it comes to "shame".
Take, for example, the Bhuddist would say that the mind is a "pool of reflection". And the Indigenous Person would tout the Hopi view of "living within the Heart!". I course, prefer the Hopi view.
In contrast we have the daily view of the Doctrine of Discovery. And Russell Banks speaks eloquently and with appropriateness regarding the Doctrine that is embedded in our national Constitution and the attendant legal construct. To wit:
“We can think of there being three braided strands, or perhaps three mutually reinforcing dreams: one is a place where a sinner can become virtuous, free from decadence of the secular cosmopolitan of old Europe; another is of a place where a poor man can become wealthy; and a third is of a place where a person can be born again…The three taken together are much more powerful than anyone of them alone. And they are there at the inception, at the very beginning of colonial America.”
But equally important, we all know that the Oral Tradition holds that the understanding of the history of the First Three Worlds, was and is in tight hands, and thusly, we are experiencing the Fourth World. And if the Mayans are correct in their historical assessment, the date of 2012 is the approximate end date of this Fourth World, and followed by the commencement of the Fifth World.
Consequently, Alberto Gonzales' behavior for having tossed his dignity into the gutter, and thusly, he will spend the remaining years of his life just re-inventing himself, and all for the greedy grasp for a political ascendance and superiority and which he willingly manifested. Sadly, he was a conservative but did not "know" conservatism, and yet held fast to a faux conservatism as his poliltical core.
As such, America is famous for exporting the behavior for "winning at any cost" and yet, this behavior has returned with a vengeance, and Gonzales permitted himself to get bitten on the ass and other assorted and sundry parts of his social, economic and political body.
Jaango
Hello to ALL,
JUST WANTED TO SHARE A SCARY CLIP THAT WE SHOULD ALL WATCH AS AMERICANS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DshaTkR3ZY4
THE ACTION STARTS IN 3:20 minutes into the clip