Usually, Foxaganda's chyron creator sticks with labeling misbehaving Republicans as Democrats or misspelling Masschusettes or calling someone a "former Congresswoman" who has always been male. But when Mr. Ailes, or whoever he delegates for the task, really gets going, we get spectacular creations like this gem. Offered without further comment:
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2007—With Gonzo out, does Bush eliminate impeachment talk?
| The blogosphere has long speculated about the benefits to the Bush "administration" of keeping Alberto Gonzales on board as Attorney General. Was it that he was so completely, personally loyal to Bush? Was he a firewall against the direct taint of scandal? Did he simply "know too much?" (God, it's really hard to even say that.)
One political side effect of letting Gonzales go is that it takes away the biggest target in reference to whom Members of Congress, political columnists, candidates and others were willing to discuss "the I-word"—impeachment.
The politics of impeaching a president (or even a vice president, for some reason) are such that most people just don't want to touch it. But some of them had gotten comfortable with the idea of impeaching Gonzales, and though it was a long, long way from becoming a reality its discussion in the media and in Congress couldn't have been all that pleasant a prospect for the White House, which had to have known that Gonzales was really a stand-in for the top bananas. Not that Gonzales himself didn't deserve it in his own right (and still does,resignation or no), but there it is.
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